This is Day 113 of the WGA strike and Day 40 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
National Union Solidarity Day kicked off on Tuesday in New York City with several hundred marchers forming a picket line that stretched two full blocks outside the Manhattan corporate offices of Amazon and HBO. Striking writers and actors saw their ranks bolstered on Tuesday by unionized teachers, nurses, truckers, musicians, retail and hotel workers, and they got vocal encouragement from union chiefs who promised to have their backs.
In what might be a sign of how long the WGA strike seems to have lasted, New York State Senator Jessica Ramos began her remarks with a reference to “the past 100 years” before checking herself to say “100 days,” a correction that drew laughs. “It felt like 100 years,” she clarified before moving on.
No better sound to start the morning than a union chorus: chants, cowbells, and Teamsters horns!
National Union Solidarity Day kicked off on Tuesday in New York City with several hundred marchers forming a picket line that stretched two full blocks outside the Manhattan corporate offices of Amazon and HBO. Striking writers and actors saw their ranks bolstered on Tuesday by unionized teachers, nurses, truckers, musicians, retail and hotel workers, and they got vocal encouragement from union chiefs who promised to have their backs.
In what might be a sign of how long the WGA strike seems to have lasted, New York State Senator Jessica Ramos began her remarks with a reference to “the past 100 years” before checking herself to say “100 days,” a correction that drew laughs. “It felt like 100 years,” she clarified before moving on.
No better sound to start the morning than a union chorus: chants, cowbells, and Teamsters horns!
- 8/22/2023
- by Sean Piccoli
- Deadline Film + TV
Cormac McCarthy indexed humanity’s worst self-inflictions––serial killers, cannibals, necrophilia, infanticide, criminal empires of unfathomable evil, a post-apocalyptic world so unsparing that its dead were only envied. But his brother-sister duet The Passenger and Stella Maris ascended the Manhattan Project and its destructions towards some other plane entirely, an awe-radiating, man-made doomsday of historical record. In the months since reading them I’ve found it near-impossible shaking an insistence made by the latter novel’s protagonist:
“But anyone who doesn’t understand that the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant events in human history hasn’t been paying attention. It’s up there with fire and language. It’s at least number three and it may be number one. We just don’t know yet. But we will.”
Needless to say McCarthy was not the first person who posited this idea, nor with––some eight months later...
“But anyone who doesn’t understand that the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant events in human history hasn’t been paying attention. It’s up there with fire and language. It’s at least number three and it may be number one. We just don’t know yet. But we will.”
Needless to say McCarthy was not the first person who posited this idea, nor with––some eight months later...
- 7/19/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Where, when, and how you can watch “Yellowstone” has always been a bit confusing. It normally airs on [Parmaount Network], where it is the most popular show on television. However, the show doesn’t stream on Paramount+, but instead is available on-demand on Peacock. But, for three days starting on May 27, the first three seasons will be available on a free linear channel on Paramount-owned Pluto TV.
Jewish American Heritage Month celebrates famous Jews who have made extraordinary contributions, including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for 27 years. The “Rbg” doc, which will be available to stream beginning on May 8, chronicles this extraordinary lawyer and her fight for equality that changed the world for American women — and everyone else.
Check out the trailer for “Rbg”:
Also arriving on the service in May will be the beloved Canadian sitcom “Kim’s Convenience.” The series, stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee,...
Jewish American Heritage Month celebrates famous Jews who have made extraordinary contributions, including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for 27 years. The “Rbg” doc, which will be available to stream beginning on May 8, chronicles this extraordinary lawyer and her fight for equality that changed the world for American women — and everyone else.
Check out the trailer for “Rbg”:
Also arriving on the service in May will be the beloved Canadian sitcom “Kim’s Convenience.” The series, stars Paul Sun-Hyung Lee,...
- 4/30/2023
- by Fern Siegel
- The Streamable
Raoul Peck is a director who feels deep and evident comfort bringing together different manners of storytelling. His 2016 documentary about James Baldwin, “I Am Not Your Negro,” was notable not merely for the brilliance and insight of Baldwin but for its blending of the late author’s recollections with narration and explication of the times in which Baldwin lived and the figures who were his contemporaries. Over a relatively short running time, the film’s braided threads of history, of commentary, of context, and of eloquently phrased anger came together to become more — more powerful and more insightful — than even an optimistic moviegoer might have expected.
On HBO, Peck attempts to bring his maximalism to an even grander target. With the new four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” he goes beyond even the ambitious goal of using the words of a single writer to explain racism in America. He brings...
On HBO, Peck attempts to bring his maximalism to an even grander target. With the new four-part series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” he goes beyond even the ambitious goal of using the words of a single writer to explain racism in America. He brings...
- 4/7/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Rage Against the Machine detail the grim American history behind their 1991 anthem “Killing in the Name” in a new mini-documentary.
The 15-minute film Killing in Thy Name, a collaboration with the arts collective the Ummah Chroma, features a teacher educating a small group of students about “the fiction known as whiteness” as well as the United States’ history of racial and social oppression. The mini-doc also features quotations from historians like Howard Zinn and live footage of Rage Against the Machine performing the track, which bizarrely became a pro-Trump rallying cry following the 2020 presidential election.
The 15-minute film Killing in Thy Name, a collaboration with the arts collective the Ummah Chroma, features a teacher educating a small group of students about “the fiction known as whiteness” as well as the United States’ history of racial and social oppression. The mini-doc also features quotations from historians like Howard Zinn and live footage of Rage Against the Machine performing the track, which bizarrely became a pro-Trump rallying cry following the 2020 presidential election.
- 1/16/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas sits down with his “personal hero and greatest intellectual (along with elder chieftain Noam Chomsky),” journalist and professor Chris Hedges, on the latest episode of his Rolling Stone interview series, S.O.S. — Earth Is a Mess.
The pair spoke during a snowy afternoon at Princeton Battlefield State Park in Princeton, New Jersey where, as Hedges put it, “large numbers of people were bayonetted to death” when George Washington successfully fended off the British during a July 3rd, 1777 Revolutionary War battle. The unique setting led to...
The pair spoke during a snowy afternoon at Princeton Battlefield State Park in Princeton, New Jersey where, as Hedges put it, “large numbers of people were bayonetted to death” when George Washington successfully fended off the British during a July 3rd, 1777 Revolutionary War battle. The unique setting led to...
- 12/23/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Other History of the DC Universe, John Ridley and Giuseppe Cammuncoli’s new prestige miniseries from DC’s Black Label, has a particularly evocative title. When you hear that name, you think Howard Zinn, something like A People’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. It implies a grand, broad look at the sweep of DC Universe history from the perspective of marginalized people, voices who were not the ones telling the story (in and outside of it). But the book that is out this week is…not quite that.
Ridley was “less interested in putting obelisks on the timeline,” he said at a roundtable discussion with Den of Geek, and more focused on how some major signpost events in the history of the DC Universe were contextualized and absorbed for different characters.
The first issue focuses on Jefferson Pierce (Black Lightning), and it contains a conscious effort from Ridley to...
Ridley was “less interested in putting obelisks on the timeline,” he said at a roundtable discussion with Den of Geek, and more focused on how some major signpost events in the history of the DC Universe were contextualized and absorbed for different characters.
The first issue focuses on Jefferson Pierce (Black Lightning), and it contains a conscious effort from Ridley to...
- 11/24/2020
- by Jim Dandy
- Den of Geek
John Gianvito's Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007) is showing November 3 - December 2, 2020 on Mubi in the Rediscovered series.Let’s start with the title—a shotgun marriage between two omnipresent yet far from equally featured players in these unremarked, meditative spaces: an abstract impulse that supposedly keeps our American republic healthy and vital (while producing a lot of junk along with more helpful items) and a concrete force that softly caresses everything in its path, keeping us alive and alert. More specifically, an encounter between the cause of many of the deaths that are being commemorated in John Gianvito’s film—especially those relating to the genocide of Native Americans and many of the massacres occasioned by slave revolts and labor protests—and what D.W. Griffith lamented he found missing from modern cinema, the wind in the trees, found in the vicinity of most of the dozens of gravesites visited.
- 11/13/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe prolific, captivating Sean Connery has died. As critic Glenn Kenny writes in his obituary for Decider, Connery will always be "tied to the role of James Bond, [but] so many of Connery’s non-Bond roles were [...] fascinating, challenging, and cinematically important." Recommended VIEWINGGrasshopper Films' official trailer for the new 4k digital restoration of Manoel de Oliveira's 1981 Francisca, an adaptation of Agustina Bessa-Luís’ acclaimed novel. Oscilloscope has released the first trailer for The Twentieth Century, Matthew Rankine's dark comedy-drama that reimagines the life of former Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The film won the Fipresci prize in the Forum section of the 2019 Berlinale. The Asian Film Archive has announced Monographs 2020, a series of video essays commissioned and conceived during lockdown. Featuring a wide range of filmmakers, the series aims to offer "an...
- 11/4/2020
- MUBI
John Gianvito's Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007) is exclusively showing November 3 - December 2, 2020 on Mubi in the Rediscovered series.Above: John Gianvito and Howard ZinnThis year marks the 40th anniversary of the first publication of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, the inspiration behind my 2007 film Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind. With over two and a half million copies sold, Zinn’s chronicling of over 500 years of the stories of individuals, events, and movements that have contributed to the fight for economic justice, racial equality, voting rights, labor protections, universal health and safety standards, has lost little of its pertinence or utility. Having spawned a Young Adult reader’s version, a graphic novel edition, and multiple other off-shoots, Zinn’s epic recounting of American history from below continues with each passing year to find its way into numerous high school and college reading lists nationwide.
- 11/2/2020
- MUBI
The 2020 Sundance Film Festival will be full of stars and legends, but the opening weekend of the snowy Robert Redford-founded shindig looks to solidly belong to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
First, there’s a world premiere of the Hulu docuseries Hillary, about the candidate who won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election but lost to Donald Trump. It’s set to be screened on Saturday, January 25 in Park City. The ex-Secretary of State is also slated to appear for an intimate Q&a the next day, as well as a showing of all four episodes of Hillary in Salt Lake City on January 26.
While Sundance has long played host to major political players — like failed 2012 Gop candidate and current Utah senator Mitt Romney and video call-ins from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last year — the former First Lady and one-time potential first female Potus may eclipse all who have come before,...
First, there’s a world premiere of the Hulu docuseries Hillary, about the candidate who won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election but lost to Donald Trump. It’s set to be screened on Saturday, January 25 in Park City. The ex-Secretary of State is also slated to appear for an intimate Q&a the next day, as well as a showing of all four episodes of Hillary in Salt Lake City on January 26.
While Sundance has long played host to major political players — like failed 2012 Gop candidate and current Utah senator Mitt Romney and video call-ins from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last year — the former First Lady and one-time potential first female Potus may eclipse all who have come before,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Having worked on both sides of the pond, “The Night Of” star Riz Ahmed thinks the U.S. TV biz could learn from the Brits’ “unpretentious” attitude toward the creative process and the U.K. industry could emulate the Americans’ openness to “new voices.”
“The British approach to creativity can be really helpfully unpretentious….That sets us apart and can be really helpful,” Ahmed told an audience of international TV execs at the BBC Studios Showcase event in Liverpool this week. He added: “Something we can learn from the Americans is their embrace of the new – new voices. I think that’s partly because it’s such a massive market [and] you need such a gigantic turnover.”
Ahmed was in Liverpool to tout his sweeping new period drama, “Englistan,” which BBC Studios is selling internationally. Tim Davies, CEO of BBC Studios, interviewed the actor onstage about his career and the show.
“The British approach to creativity can be really helpfully unpretentious….That sets us apart and can be really helpful,” Ahmed told an audience of international TV execs at the BBC Studios Showcase event in Liverpool this week. He added: “Something we can learn from the Americans is their embrace of the new – new voices. I think that’s partly because it’s such a massive market [and] you need such a gigantic turnover.”
Ahmed was in Liverpool to tout his sweeping new period drama, “Englistan,” which BBC Studios is selling internationally. Tim Davies, CEO of BBC Studios, interviewed the actor onstage about his career and the show.
- 2/20/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Camille Cosby blasted last week’s sexual assault conviction of her husband, disgraced TV star Bill Cosby, calling it “mob justice.”
In a three-page letter issued Thursday, Cosby’s wife also called for a criminal investigation into what she called an “unethical” prosecution by Kevin Steele, the district attorney in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County who led the retrial of the case following hung jury on the same charges last summer.
“This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life,” she wrote. “If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone.”
In her 1,000-plus-word statement, Camille Cosby compared her husband’s conviction to signature moments of injustice in the civil rights movement such as the 1955 lynching of Mississippi teenager Emmett Till — and the acquittal of his killers.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Removed From Television Academy Website
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” wrote Camille Cosby, who has been married to the star since 1964.
Last week, a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in his retrial over former Temple University employee Andrea Constand’s accusations that the comedian had drugged her and then sexually violated her in a 2004 encounter.
Since the verdict, the 80-year-old star has remained confined to his suburban Philadelphia until his sentencing. He could face up to 10 years in prison for each count of aggravated indecent assault.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Juror Says Comic's Own Words Led to Guilty Verdict
Here’s Camille Cosby’s complete statement:
“We the people” are the first three words of our nation’s Constitution, but who were those people in 1787? Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his best selling book, A People’s History of the United States: “The majority of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were men of wealth in land, slaves, manufacturing or shipping.” Clearly, most people were not included in that original draft of the Constitution; no women, Native Americans, poor white men; and, absolutely, no enslaved Africans. What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcasts by “we the people”? They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit, forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people…finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787. Now enters an American citizen, Bill Cosby.
The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so… period. And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that…for example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false. A more recent example is the case of Darryl Hunt, an African American who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of a white woman, only to have DNA evidence establish in 1994 that he did not commit the crime. Nonetheless he was held in prison until 2004, serving almost twenty years behind bars, until the true rapist confessed to the crimes.
These are just two of many tragic instances of our justice system utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion. In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Although the Smithsonian’s hierarchy did not capitulate, a disclaimer was posted on the exterior of that Museum. And all of that occurred before the trial even started.
The worst injustices, however, have been carried out in the Pennsylvania Montgomery County Courthouse. Three criminal charges, promised during an unethical campaign for the district attorney’s office, were filed against my husband…all based on what I believe to be a falsified account by the newly elected district attorney’s key witness. I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions. Moreover, Bill Cosby’s defense team introduced the testimony of a witness who confirmed that the district attorney’s witness admitted that she had not been sexually assaulted, but that she could say she was and get money … which is exactly what she did.
I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone. How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be….a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law.
This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country. I wish to thank the witnesses who courageously came forward at trial to testify as to the truth, as well as those witnesses who would have done so but for the judge preventing them from testifying. Someday the truth will prevail, it always does.
Read original story Camille Cosby Blasts Her Husband’s Guilt Verdict as ‘Mob Justice’ At TheWrap...
In a three-page letter issued Thursday, Cosby’s wife also called for a criminal investigation into what she called an “unethical” prosecution by Kevin Steele, the district attorney in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County who led the retrial of the case following hung jury on the same charges last summer.
“This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life,” she wrote. “If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone.”
In her 1,000-plus-word statement, Camille Cosby compared her husband’s conviction to signature moments of injustice in the civil rights movement such as the 1955 lynching of Mississippi teenager Emmett Till — and the acquittal of his killers.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Removed From Television Academy Website
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” wrote Camille Cosby, who has been married to the star since 1964.
Last week, a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in his retrial over former Temple University employee Andrea Constand’s accusations that the comedian had drugged her and then sexually violated her in a 2004 encounter.
Since the verdict, the 80-year-old star has remained confined to his suburban Philadelphia until his sentencing. He could face up to 10 years in prison for each count of aggravated indecent assault.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Juror Says Comic's Own Words Led to Guilty Verdict
Here’s Camille Cosby’s complete statement:
“We the people” are the first three words of our nation’s Constitution, but who were those people in 1787? Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his best selling book, A People’s History of the United States: “The majority of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were men of wealth in land, slaves, manufacturing or shipping.” Clearly, most people were not included in that original draft of the Constitution; no women, Native Americans, poor white men; and, absolutely, no enslaved Africans. What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcasts by “we the people”? They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit, forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people…finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787. Now enters an American citizen, Bill Cosby.
The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so… period. And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that…for example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false. A more recent example is the case of Darryl Hunt, an African American who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of a white woman, only to have DNA evidence establish in 1994 that he did not commit the crime. Nonetheless he was held in prison until 2004, serving almost twenty years behind bars, until the true rapist confessed to the crimes.
These are just two of many tragic instances of our justice system utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion. In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Although the Smithsonian’s hierarchy did not capitulate, a disclaimer was posted on the exterior of that Museum. And all of that occurred before the trial even started.
The worst injustices, however, have been carried out in the Pennsylvania Montgomery County Courthouse. Three criminal charges, promised during an unethical campaign for the district attorney’s office, were filed against my husband…all based on what I believe to be a falsified account by the newly elected district attorney’s key witness. I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions. Moreover, Bill Cosby’s defense team introduced the testimony of a witness who confirmed that the district attorney’s witness admitted that she had not been sexually assaulted, but that she could say she was and get money … which is exactly what she did.
I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone. How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be….a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law.
This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country. I wish to thank the witnesses who courageously came forward at trial to testify as to the truth, as well as those witnesses who would have done so but for the judge preventing them from testifying. Someday the truth will prevail, it always does.
Read original story Camille Cosby Blasts Her Husband’s Guilt Verdict as ‘Mob Justice’ At TheWrap...
- 5/3/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Camille Cosby has spoken publicly for the first time since her husband Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004 – calling it “mob justice”.
Camille Cosby, who has been married to The Cosby Show star since 1964, has gone after the Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, the media and Cosby’s accusers in a statement that alludes to racial injustice.
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” she said.
This comes after a jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts last week on three counts of...
Camille Cosby, who has been married to The Cosby Show star since 1964, has gone after the Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, the media and Cosby’s accusers in a statement that alludes to racial injustice.
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” she said.
This comes after a jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts last week on three counts of...
- 5/3/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
From “School Ties” to “Live By Night” and this weekend’s “The Great Wall,” Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have each — for better and worse — left a considerable and ever-increasing footprint in the cultural landscape. But while the world is wide enough for both of them, our hearts are not. And so, we forced our panel of critics to choose: Ben Affleck or Matt Damon?
There can be only one.
Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse), Freelance with Rolling Stone, Vulture, Vox
This is a toughie. In terms of looks, both Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s faces remind me of between forty and fifty of my least-favorite classmates during...
From “School Ties” to “Live By Night” and this weekend’s “The Great Wall,” Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have each — for better and worse — left a considerable and ever-increasing footprint in the cultural landscape. But while the world is wide enough for both of them, our hearts are not. And so, we forced our panel of critics to choose: Ben Affleck or Matt Damon?
There can be only one.
Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse), Freelance with Rolling Stone, Vulture, Vox
This is a toughie. In terms of looks, both Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s faces remind me of between forty and fifty of my least-favorite classmates during...
- 2/21/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass performed his famous speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” on July 5, 1852, when asked to speak at a 4th of July celebration for the Rochester Ladies Antislavery Society. James Earl Jones read Douglass’s speech during a performance for historian Howard Zinn’s book, Voices of a People’s History of the United States, in […]
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- 7/5/2016
- by Khoreen Eccleston
- Uinterview
Chicago – When the assignment was to find a comedy team to take on impersonating police officers, funny men Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. – of the TV series “New Girl” – fit the uniforms perfectly for the new film, “Let’s Be Cops.” Add in the always hilarious Rob Riggle, and let the games begin.
Riggle is a well known comic character presence on “The Daily Show” and films like “The Hangover,” “21 Jump Street,” “Big Miracle” and the upcoming “Dumb and Dumber To.” Riggle is also famous for having served in the Marines and Marine Reserves for a total of 23 years – retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel – and began his comedy career after his first military stint.
Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson in ‘Let’s Be Cops’
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson are practically a comedy duo. They portray pals Coach and Nick on Zooey Deschanel’s sitcom “New Girl,...
Riggle is a well known comic character presence on “The Daily Show” and films like “The Hangover,” “21 Jump Street,” “Big Miracle” and the upcoming “Dumb and Dumber To.” Riggle is also famous for having served in the Marines and Marine Reserves for a total of 23 years – retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel – and began his comedy career after his first military stint.
Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson in ‘Let’s Be Cops’
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson are practically a comedy duo. They portray pals Coach and Nick on Zooey Deschanel’s sitcom “New Girl,...
- 8/13/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Dear Dinesh D’Souza: Why are you afraid of alternate narratives in American History? History, as we know, is written by the winners, and you seem all sad and angry that one man, Howard Zinn, wrote a History of the United States by defining the desperation of the people left behind in the American dream. Why is that so awful? You define it as “progressive left wing” narrative, but what is your propaganda film – blithely called “America” – but a distillation of your view of history?
Rating: 1.0/5.0
You see, Dinesh, you seem to have no empathy for those in a lower station than yourself. You have determined that the power in America is in its ability to accumulate entrepreneurs. And also, all that historic pablum in the beginning – in which you leave out key facts and stage reenactments that are riddled with inaccuracies – are just the set up to reiterate...
Rating: 1.0/5.0
You see, Dinesh, you seem to have no empathy for those in a lower station than yourself. You have determined that the power in America is in its ability to accumulate entrepreneurs. And also, all that historic pablum in the beginning – in which you leave out key facts and stage reenactments that are riddled with inaccuracies – are just the set up to reiterate...
- 7/12/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There are very good intentions at the core of America: Imagine a World Without Her, Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan‘s follow-up to their smash hit 2016: Obama’s America. In focusing much of their attack on Howard Zinn, the filmmakers look to rewrite history again, this time in a more positive manner. That isn’t to say the documentary is out to defend slavery or imperialism or any of the other shameful things spotlighted in “The People’s History of the United States,” but it does concentrate on how the nation has continually gotten on the right path and put its wrongdoings behind. Narrating and appearing on screen as the film’s main driving force, D’Souza implies that America is great because we did have that Civil War and eventually abolished slavery. Basically, he believes we should be celebrating the fact that we no longer treat people like property, not...
- 7/5/2014
- by Nonfics.com
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Writeractivist Alice Walker b. Feb. 9, 1944 made History as the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her seminal novel The Color Purple 1982, for which she won the National Book Award. Thirteen's American Masters presents Alice Walker Beauty in Truth, premiering nationally tonight, February 7 at 9 p.m. on PBS in honor of Walker's 70th birthday and Black History Month. Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar's new documentary tells Walker's dramatic life story with poetry and lyricism, and features new interviews with Walker, Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover, Quincy Jones, Gloria Steinem, Sapphire and the late Howard Zinn in one of his final interviews. Watch the trailer below...
- 2/7/2014
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Writeractivist Alice Walker b. Feb. 9, 1944 made history as the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her seminal novel The Color Purple 1982, for which she won the National Book Award. Thirteen's American Masters presents Alice Walker Beauty in Truth, premiering nationally Friday, February 7 at 9 p.m. on PBS in honor of Walker's 70th birthday and Black History Month. Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar's new documentary tells Walker's dramatic life story with poetry and lyricism, and features new interviews with Walker, Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover, Quincy Jones, Gloria Steinem, Sapphire and the late Howard Zinn in one of his final interviews. Watch the trailer below...
- 1/11/2014
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
It’s Columbus Day and celebrities are tweeting up a storm about the American holiday. Keep reading for some pretty fun tweets!
Celebrities are taking to social media to give their thanks to Christopher Columbus, the man responsible for discovering the great country of America.
Celebrities Tweet About Columbus Day
There have definitely been some funny tweets from celebs on Oct. 14 and we can’t help but post some of our favorites, just for you!
Columbus Day Edition of @RuPaul drives… @thekatvond! Watch: http://t.co/6F36gZKohe pic.twitter.com/H4TrGEsaGA @biggalreviews
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) October 14, 2013
But Rupaul isn’t the only celebrity tweeting about the holiday.
Columbus Day is a great day to read Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States". On our national hero: pic.twitter.com/D0NuEBuFU1
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) October 14, 2013
Bet my friends in Boston just going to bed after huge night in sports.
Celebrities are taking to social media to give their thanks to Christopher Columbus, the man responsible for discovering the great country of America.
Celebrities Tweet About Columbus Day
There have definitely been some funny tweets from celebs on Oct. 14 and we can’t help but post some of our favorites, just for you!
Columbus Day Edition of @RuPaul drives… @thekatvond! Watch: http://t.co/6F36gZKohe pic.twitter.com/H4TrGEsaGA @biggalreviews
— RuPaul (@RuPaul) October 14, 2013
But Rupaul isn’t the only celebrity tweeting about the holiday.
Columbus Day is a great day to read Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States". On our national hero: pic.twitter.com/D0NuEBuFU1
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) October 14, 2013
Bet my friends in Boston just going to bed after huge night in sports.
- 10/14/2013
- by Chloe Melas
- HollywoodLife
The award-winning French director talks about the challenge of adapting Joyce Carol Oates' novel about a secret society of teenage girls
Five years ago, after winning the 2008 Palme d'Or for his fourth feature film, The Class, Laurent Cantet was unexpectedly elevated to an elite group of international film-makers. In his previous three features, Cantet had shown himself an able, interesting director, but not necessarily an attention-grabbing one. He had earned a reputation, through films such as Human Resources and Time Out, as France's answer to Ken Loach: an earnest director motivated by his conscience, but who wore his political commitments lightly. The Class, however, changed all that: shot in Cantet's characteristic low-key faux-documentary manner, it struck a chord in France with its portrait of a teacher's struggle with a roomful of stroppy teenagers in contemporary Paris, and propelled him into the big league.
After a world premiere almost...
Five years ago, after winning the 2008 Palme d'Or for his fourth feature film, The Class, Laurent Cantet was unexpectedly elevated to an elite group of international film-makers. In his previous three features, Cantet had shown himself an able, interesting director, but not necessarily an attention-grabbing one. He had earned a reputation, through films such as Human Resources and Time Out, as France's answer to Ken Loach: an earnest director motivated by his conscience, but who wore his political commitments lightly. The Class, however, changed all that: shot in Cantet's characteristic low-key faux-documentary manner, it struck a chord in France with its portrait of a teacher's struggle with a roomful of stroppy teenagers in contemporary Paris, and propelled him into the big league.
After a world premiere almost...
- 8/9/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Tags: Alice WalkerBeauty in TruthPratibha Parmarmoviesmovie interviewswomen of colorIMDbactivism
The Color Purple, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about black communities and interpersonal relations between men and women of color in the South, catapulted Alice Walker to fame as a writer. But beyond this work (actually her tenth novel) many of us do not know the complexity and richness of her life, not only as a writer but as a global activist.
True to her artistic career, filmmaker Pratibha Parmar is continuing her efforts to make history through her latest film, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 31. In this inspiring and informative documentary, Parmar tells the story of Alice Walker, from poverty-stricken child of the unbearably racist South to acclaimed writer and activist. Through a blend of archival footage that recreates the political and social contexts of Walker’s life from the mid...
The Color Purple, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about black communities and interpersonal relations between men and women of color in the South, catapulted Alice Walker to fame as a writer. But beyond this work (actually her tenth novel) many of us do not know the complexity and richness of her life, not only as a writer but as a global activist.
True to her artistic career, filmmaker Pratibha Parmar is continuing her efforts to make history through her latest film, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 31. In this inspiring and informative documentary, Parmar tells the story of Alice Walker, from poverty-stricken child of the unbearably racist South to acclaimed writer and activist. Through a blend of archival footage that recreates the political and social contexts of Walker’s life from the mid...
- 6/21/2013
- by MBHauteWriter
- AfterEllen.com
Displaying incandescent theorizing yet lurching storytelling, The Lottery of Birth parses modern societies in a profound, haphazard manner. Watching it is like attending an erudite dinner—the conversation isn't preordained, but it's insightful nevertheless. A docu-essay, the film's mission is to reveal biases we unknowingly adopt due to our having been raised in a society. The film's argument is presented via narration and talking-head interviews with intellectuals from the realms of politics and cognitive science (notably, Daniel Dennett and Howard Zinn), which are often accompanied with generic stock footage or, curiously, bizarre shots of subway escalators. While the visuals are mostly insignificant—someone just reading the script wouldn't miss much—the film...
- 6/19/2013
- Village Voice
"No politician who voted funds for war, no business contractor for the military, no general who ordered young men into battle, no FBI man who spied on anti-war activities, should be invited to public ceremonies on this sacred day. Let the dead of past wars be honored. Let those who live pledge themselves never to embark on mass slaughter again."
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010), American military veteran (WWII) and historian.
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010), American military veteran (WWII) and historian.
- 5/26/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Nobody does the everyman better than Matt Damon. His common touch has made him one of the world's most bankable stars. He tells Tim Lewis about offending Barack Obama, his love for Ben Affleck and marrying outside the Hollywood elite
'I got the fortunes of heaven
in diamonds and gold
I got all the bonds baby
that the bank could hold'
'Ain't Got You' – Bruce Springsteen
In 1987, when Bruce Springsteen wrote the song "Ain't Got You", he was the biggest rock star in the world. He had vast estates in New Jersey and Beverly Hills, and he had not long returned from a honeymoon at Gianni Versace's villa in Lake Como. "Ain't Got You" was Springsteen's attempt to make a self-aware nod to his outrageous fortune, the Rembrandts on his walls, and how he had come a long way from his working-class upbringing.
Before he released it, Springsteen played...
'I got the fortunes of heaven
in diamonds and gold
I got all the bonds baby
that the bank could hold'
'Ain't Got You' – Bruce Springsteen
In 1987, when Bruce Springsteen wrote the song "Ain't Got You", he was the biggest rock star in the world. He had vast estates in New Jersey and Beverly Hills, and he had not long returned from a honeymoon at Gianni Versace's villa in Lake Como. "Ain't Got You" was Springsteen's attempt to make a self-aware nod to his outrageous fortune, the Rembrandts on his walls, and how he had come a long way from his working-class upbringing.
Before he released it, Springsteen played...
- 4/9/2013
- by Tim Lewis
- The Guardian - Film News
So, remember Tom Shadyac? He's the guy who was at one time a box office comedy titan, thanks to "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "The Nutty Professor," "Liar Liar" and "Bruce Almighty." But then he decided after making millions upon millions of dollars that there was more to life and made a documentary. "I Am"was a lot of feel good, New Age-y mumbo jumbo, that found him talking with folks like David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lynne McTaggart, Ray Anderson, John Francis, Coleman Barks, and Marc Ian Barasch about like the world, man. That was a couple of years ago, and while he briefly popped up as a contender to direct a remake of Arthur Lubin's 1964 film "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" that had Zach Galifianakis attached to star, it didn't happen. But now another remake might bring him back in the ring. Deadline reports that...
- 2/28/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
By Alex Simon
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been one of journalism’s most outspoken voices for nearly forty years. However, Mumia’s greatest fame has come not from his written work, but from the fact that he is one of the most famous state “employees” in the country: he has been in state prison since 1982, serving on death row until just over a year ago.
Born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal made his name as a tireless writer and journalist during the racially-charged 1970s that often portrayed the City of Brotherly Love as anything but. With his intense coverage of the M.O.V.E. organization, a black empowerment group whose ongoing battle with the police and city hall came to a fiery end in 1985, Abu-Jamal became a constant thorn in the side of the city’s powerful establishment. Things came to a sudden head for Abu-Jamal himself on the evening...
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been one of journalism’s most outspoken voices for nearly forty years. However, Mumia’s greatest fame has come not from his written work, but from the fact that he is one of the most famous state “employees” in the country: he has been in state prison since 1982, serving on death row until just over a year ago.
Born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal made his name as a tireless writer and journalist during the racially-charged 1970s that often portrayed the City of Brotherly Love as anything but. With his intense coverage of the M.O.V.E. organization, a black empowerment group whose ongoing battle with the police and city hall came to a fiery end in 1985, Abu-Jamal became a constant thorn in the side of the city’s powerful establishment. Things came to a sudden head for Abu-Jamal himself on the evening...
- 2/24/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Former Hollywood director Tom Shadyac gave it all up to espouse a shift to a more virtuous, interconnected way of living
For an evaluation of the world's woes and what to do about them, most people probably wouldn't turn to the director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. But since bringing Jim Carrey to the big screen, and grossing nearly $2bn with a subsequent string of blockbusters including The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar and Patch Adams, Hollywood filmmaker Tom Shadyac has had quite a change of heart. So, while I Give It A Year was premiering with the usual glitz at the Vue West End in Leicester Square last Thursday, Shadyac was in a small theatre at the Empire next door, explaining without fanfare why he sold his Beverly Hills home, gave away most of his money and made Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn the stars of his latest documentary film,...
For an evaluation of the world's woes and what to do about them, most people probably wouldn't turn to the director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. But since bringing Jim Carrey to the big screen, and grossing nearly $2bn with a subsequent string of blockbusters including The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar and Patch Adams, Hollywood filmmaker Tom Shadyac has had quite a change of heart. So, while I Give It A Year was premiering with the usual glitz at the Vue West End in Leicester Square last Thursday, Shadyac was in a small theatre at the Empire next door, explaining without fanfare why he sold his Beverly Hills home, gave away most of his money and made Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn the stars of his latest documentary film,...
- 1/30/2013
- by Ed Halliwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Bruce Almighty director Tom Shadyac chats with scientists, poets and elder statesmen including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky and the late Howard Zinn about life, the universe and everything. His philosophical lines of inquiry came after he fell off his bike, leaving him with debilitating post-concussion syndrome and an acute awareness of his own mortality. After recovery, he set out to answer the questions: What's wrong with our world and what can we do about it?...
- 12/12/2012
- Sky Movies
Twelve years ago, the western and the musical, two genres that were incredibly successful during Hollywood’s heyday, had been considered long dead with no hopes of a revival on the horizon. After all, why would either of these genres make a comeback? The western is a remnant of a sense of American cultural imperialism and pre-Howard Zinn history-writing long past, and the film musical requires such an astounding degree of suspension of disbelief that audiences who seek special effects that blur distinctions between the fabricated and the real simply aren’t willing to engage it. But lo and behold, on December 25th, 2012 (always a day for big movies), a western (Django Unchained) and a musical (Les Miserables) will be launched into wide release on the heels of outstanding buzz (sure, Tarantino’s film is a revisionist western, but since revisionist westerns have been around for nearly fifty years, let...
- 12/4/2012
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
My readers know how important literacy is to me since I started The Literacy Project at El Centro del Pueblo two years ago. So when I met Catherine Murphy at a Laliff reception, I was extremely interested in her 33 minute documentary Maestra which will screen at La Femme Film Festival on Saturday, October 13th at 12:00 p.m. in Hollywood at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre, 1125 N McCadden Place, L.A. 90038. The screening will be followed by a Question & Answer session.
Maestra pays tribute to the thousands of young, teenage girls in Cuba in the1960s who volunteered to combat illiteracy across their country, with astonishing results. “This is not just a story about literacy; it is a story about everyday heroes and heroines, about hopes and dreams. It is about the empowerment of 50,000 young women, who threw themselves into an impossible task, and helped change history in their country at the early ages of 16 and 17”, says Murphy, who has spent close to a decade researching archives, tracking down volunteer teachers and recording oral histories of their experience.
Endorsed by such luminaries as Dolores Huerta, Co-founder of the United Farm Workers, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation; Howard Zinn, Historian and Author of "The Peoples History of the United States", Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan Writer and Journalist, Author of "The Open Veins of Latin America" and Alice Walker, Writer and Peacemaker Pulitzer Prize Winner Author of "The Color Purple who said, "This film brought tears to my eyes. Thank you. It is beautiful", you can see why my interest is not unfounded.
La Femme International Film Festival is the biggest women’s festival inthe United States with a star studded Awards Ceremony highlighting films from all over the world. The 4 day fest will screen over 100 films -- independent features, shorts, documentaries, commercials and music videos. Renowned actors such as Susan Sarandon and Daryl Hannah are part of this year’s films.
The screening and event schedule for the festival is available online at http://www.lafemme.org/. Tickets can Now be purchased online or at the door. Tickets for individualfilms are $10.
Maestra was produced by The Literacy Project (www.theliteracyproject.org) in collaboration with Icaic (Cuban Institute for Cinematic Arts and Industry. See trailer and download press kit at www.maestrathefilm.org.
Maestra pays tribute to the thousands of young, teenage girls in Cuba in the1960s who volunteered to combat illiteracy across their country, with astonishing results. “This is not just a story about literacy; it is a story about everyday heroes and heroines, about hopes and dreams. It is about the empowerment of 50,000 young women, who threw themselves into an impossible task, and helped change history in their country at the early ages of 16 and 17”, says Murphy, who has spent close to a decade researching archives, tracking down volunteer teachers and recording oral histories of their experience.
Endorsed by such luminaries as Dolores Huerta, Co-founder of the United Farm Workers, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation; Howard Zinn, Historian and Author of "The Peoples History of the United States", Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan Writer and Journalist, Author of "The Open Veins of Latin America" and Alice Walker, Writer and Peacemaker Pulitzer Prize Winner Author of "The Color Purple who said, "This film brought tears to my eyes. Thank you. It is beautiful", you can see why my interest is not unfounded.
La Femme International Film Festival is the biggest women’s festival inthe United States with a star studded Awards Ceremony highlighting films from all over the world. The 4 day fest will screen over 100 films -- independent features, shorts, documentaries, commercials and music videos. Renowned actors such as Susan Sarandon and Daryl Hannah are part of this year’s films.
The screening and event schedule for the festival is available online at http://www.lafemme.org/. Tickets can Now be purchased online or at the door. Tickets for individualfilms are $10.
Maestra was produced by The Literacy Project (www.theliteracyproject.org) in collaboration with Icaic (Cuban Institute for Cinematic Arts and Industry. See trailer and download press kit at www.maestrathefilm.org.
- 10/10/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
I know that when you saw the trailers for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter you were as dumbfounded as the rest of us. While we’ve seen literal adaptations of some of the classics turned into zombie novels (and by the same culprit as Al:vh no less) this seems like a stretch. Let’s take an historical figure, well loved who has established mythology and then completely turn it to our own horror lovin’ devices. I’m sure this is the literary adventure that our forefathers imagined when they formed this nation. Life, liberty and the pursuit of horror (or at least camp classic entertainment). Come listen to Jeff Konopka, Shawn Savage and Jesse Bartel as they dissect this one. I think it’s safe to say, it is exactly what you think it is. The Dead Air has the 101 on this purposely historically inaccurate work of fiction.
Along with the main event,...
Along with the main event,...
- 7/26/2012
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
While not all films mentioned below are necessarily guaranteed future place among the Sundance Film Festival elite, it’s certainly a step in the right direction for the filmmakers and more importantly the producers backing the future of independent film. Among the eleven project participants below selected for the annual Creative Producing Labs and Creative Producing Summit (July 30 – August 3) in the Feature Film category we find such names as future superstars in Summer Shelton (she worked with Ramin Bahrani) and receives the first ever Bingham Ray Creative Producing Fellow, Tory Lenosky (worked as an assistant to Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen) and Lucas Joaquin (second unit producer for Beasts of the Southern Wild). Here is the full press release below.
Feature Film Creative Producing Lab
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab is a five-day Lab where narrative feature film producers work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors to develop their creative instincts,...
Feature Film Creative Producing Lab
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab is a five-day Lab where narrative feature film producers work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors to develop their creative instincts,...
- 7/18/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Mimi Steinbauer, President / CEO of Radiant Films International announced today that Tom Shadyac.s life affirming documentary feature film .I Am. has been acquired for all worldwide distribution rights (excluding Us and Canada) by Universal Pictures International Entertainment.
.I Am. is a film that resonates beautifully with audiences looking for a smart and entertaining look at life themes that affect all of us. We are delighted that Universal Pictures International Entertainment has recognized the potential of this film,. said Steinbauer.
.Universal Pictures International Entertainment is pleased to be working with Radiant Films to release .I Am. internationally. This inspirational feature is a welcome addition to our documentary collection,. said Eddie Cunningham, President of Universal International Entertainment.
“I Am” is the result of a life-changing biking accident in 2007 suffered by acclaimed director Shadyac which compelled him to re-evaluate his Hollywood lifestyle and seek the answers to the following questions: what’s...
.I Am. is a film that resonates beautifully with audiences looking for a smart and entertaining look at life themes that affect all of us. We are delighted that Universal Pictures International Entertainment has recognized the potential of this film,. said Steinbauer.
.Universal Pictures International Entertainment is pleased to be working with Radiant Films to release .I Am. internationally. This inspirational feature is a welcome addition to our documentary collection,. said Eddie Cunningham, President of Universal International Entertainment.
“I Am” is the result of a life-changing biking accident in 2007 suffered by acclaimed director Shadyac which compelled him to re-evaluate his Hollywood lifestyle and seek the answers to the following questions: what’s...
- 5/3/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hey girl, do you love the sound of Ryan Gosling's voice? Well, tonight you can listen to it for almost two hours straight.
Thursday night, "#ReGENERATION" premieres in Los Angeles at Downtown Independent. The documentary film is narrated by Ryan Gosling and features Noam Chomsky, Talib Kewli and the late Howard Zinn, amongst others. STS9: Sound Tribe Sector 9 created the music for the soundtrack.
The documentary looks to dissect the challenges that the Millennial Generation faces, as well as take a look at the collective efforts that contribute to Millennial's social activism. View the trailer above.
You can buy tickets for the La premiere of "#ReGENERATION" here. Bonus: director Philip Montgomery and producer Matt DeRoss will speak after the film premiere.
Gosling himself has stepped into the world of activism recently with his Huffington Post blog posts on "I Am Congo."
Photos: Check out some of Ryan Gosling...
Thursday night, "#ReGENERATION" premieres in Los Angeles at Downtown Independent. The documentary film is narrated by Ryan Gosling and features Noam Chomsky, Talib Kewli and the late Howard Zinn, amongst others. STS9: Sound Tribe Sector 9 created the music for the soundtrack.
The documentary looks to dissect the challenges that the Millennial Generation faces, as well as take a look at the collective efforts that contribute to Millennial's social activism. View the trailer above.
You can buy tickets for the La premiere of "#ReGENERATION" here. Bonus: director Philip Montgomery and producer Matt DeRoss will speak after the film premiere.
Gosling himself has stepped into the world of activism recently with his Huffington Post blog posts on "I Am Congo."
Photos: Check out some of Ryan Gosling...
- 5/3/2012
- by Lucy Blodgett
- Huffington Post
One of my favorite international sales agent is Memento. I wrote of them last year (See blog). Now they are representing the film of one of my favorite people in the biz, the hyphenate director-producer-writer who also was put into the role of casting director by Steve Soderbergh while casting Che.
Rodrigo (Rigo to his friends) Bellot began his career's path from his native Bolivia to U.S. with Sexual Dependency, produced by Ara Katz (Howard Zinn doc The People Speak and George Romero's Survival of the Dead).
Screen Daily recently announced Memento and Rigo's upcoming picture, We Are What We Are, a picture that actors Riley Keogh and Julia Garner will be sinking their teeth into as two sisters forced into cannibalism by their father. Read the article which is full of interesting tidbits, such as the factthat Riley Keough is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley and she has plenty of fat and juicy roles lined up already.
Memento Films International (Mfi) describes We Are What We Are as a "re-imagination" of Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s Somo Lo Que Hay (U.S. IFC) about a family of cannibals in Mexico City.
The director, Jim Mickle, best known for his cult vampire picture Stake Land which won Toronto’s Midnight Madness sidebar in 2010, has transposed the story to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State.
Principal photography will begin in the Catskills on May 29. The picture will wrap the first week of July with delivery slated for January of 2013, just in time for Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin.
Mfi has already presold the project at Berlin’s Efm to E1/ Artificial Eye for the U.K. , Canada, France, Scandinavia and South Africa. Cinema Mondo prebought the film for Finland; Koch Media and Alamode have German rights, Cinefil has Hungary, Canana has Mexico, Calinos has Turkey.
A real winner as is Memento itself and Rigo too!
Memento is a select arthouse company for high-profile, director-driven independent films. They choose only 8 projects a year and offer tailor–made synergies and business expertise through four companies; from production (Memento Films Production & La Cinefacture), International Sales (Memento Films International) to French distribution (Memento Films Distribution), according to the specific needs of each project. They have recently worked with renowned and award-winning filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Laurent Cantet, Emanuele Crialese, Hiner Saleem, Jia Zhang-ke, Ramin Bahrani, Gilles Marchand, Julie Bertuccelli, Aditya Assarat, Pawel Pawlikowski and Olivier Assayas.
Memento's young and dynamic team is devoted to promoting the projects with a maximum of commitment, rather than merely selling. Whether it is high-end arthouse fare with a medium-sized budget or cutting-edge low-budget projects from emerging talents, they value originality, whether narrative or the cinematographic vision of the director.
You can see Memento's Cannes lineup on Cinando. Look for them in Cannes at 25 la Croisette - Bagatelle. Or call them at 33 4 93 38 68 19.
Rodrigo (Rigo to his friends) Bellot began his career's path from his native Bolivia to U.S. with Sexual Dependency, produced by Ara Katz (Howard Zinn doc The People Speak and George Romero's Survival of the Dead).
Screen Daily recently announced Memento and Rigo's upcoming picture, We Are What We Are, a picture that actors Riley Keogh and Julia Garner will be sinking their teeth into as two sisters forced into cannibalism by their father. Read the article which is full of interesting tidbits, such as the factthat Riley Keough is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley and she has plenty of fat and juicy roles lined up already.
Memento Films International (Mfi) describes We Are What We Are as a "re-imagination" of Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s Somo Lo Que Hay (U.S. IFC) about a family of cannibals in Mexico City.
The director, Jim Mickle, best known for his cult vampire picture Stake Land which won Toronto’s Midnight Madness sidebar in 2010, has transposed the story to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State.
Principal photography will begin in the Catskills on May 29. The picture will wrap the first week of July with delivery slated for January of 2013, just in time for Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin.
Mfi has already presold the project at Berlin’s Efm to E1/ Artificial Eye for the U.K. , Canada, France, Scandinavia and South Africa. Cinema Mondo prebought the film for Finland; Koch Media and Alamode have German rights, Cinefil has Hungary, Canana has Mexico, Calinos has Turkey.
A real winner as is Memento itself and Rigo too!
Memento is a select arthouse company for high-profile, director-driven independent films. They choose only 8 projects a year and offer tailor–made synergies and business expertise through four companies; from production (Memento Films Production & La Cinefacture), International Sales (Memento Films International) to French distribution (Memento Films Distribution), according to the specific needs of each project. They have recently worked with renowned and award-winning filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Laurent Cantet, Emanuele Crialese, Hiner Saleem, Jia Zhang-ke, Ramin Bahrani, Gilles Marchand, Julie Bertuccelli, Aditya Assarat, Pawel Pawlikowski and Olivier Assayas.
Memento's young and dynamic team is devoted to promoting the projects with a maximum of commitment, rather than merely selling. Whether it is high-end arthouse fare with a medium-sized budget or cutting-edge low-budget projects from emerging talents, they value originality, whether narrative or the cinematographic vision of the director.
You can see Memento's Cannes lineup on Cinando. Look for them in Cannes at 25 la Croisette - Bagatelle. Or call them at 33 4 93 38 68 19.
- 5/3/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Without a doubt one of the most awesome, coolest, and sought-after actors working at the moment, Ryan Gosling earned his second producing credit (after exec. producing Blue Valentine) on Phillip Montgomery’s documentary, #ReGENERATION, and lended his voice to narrate the project too.
A new trailer for the documentary has now surfaced, showing Gosling’s narration as well as the various interviews featured, including conversations with Noam Chomsky, Talib Kweli, Kalle Lasn, the late Howard Zinn, and many more.
“Beyond the labels of “Generation X” and “Generation Y,” the feature documentary film ReGeneration takes an uncompromising look at the issues facing today’s youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture’s apathetic approach to social and political causes.
Focused on how today’s education, parenting, and media can shape us, the film follows three separate walks of life representing today’s generation. Each brings their own...
A new trailer for the documentary has now surfaced, showing Gosling’s narration as well as the various interviews featured, including conversations with Noam Chomsky, Talib Kweli, Kalle Lasn, the late Howard Zinn, and many more.
“Beyond the labels of “Generation X” and “Generation Y,” the feature documentary film ReGeneration takes an uncompromising look at the issues facing today’s youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture’s apathetic approach to social and political causes.
Focused on how today’s education, parenting, and media can shape us, the film follows three separate walks of life representing today’s generation. Each brings their own...
- 3/28/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
#ReGENERATION," produced and narrated by Ryan Gosling, is a documentary that takes a look at how political apathy among young people ultimately contributed to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The film explores the widespread cynicism of today's younger generations and features some of the worlds leading scholars, activists, and media personalities, including Andrew Bacevich, Noam Chomsky, Talib Kweli, Kalle Lasn, Amy Goodman, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9), and the late Howard Zinn. Those featured share insights on how the seedlings of ideas can transform into inspiring movements and incite change.
"#ReGENERATION" explores how education, parenting, and media can shape society, as the film traces the influence of these institutions on the generation's collective culture.
Each group the film features brings their own unique perspective to the forefront, from an inspired collective of musicians working outside the corporate system to a twenty-something conservative family about to welcome the birth of their second child.
The film explores the widespread cynicism of today's younger generations and features some of the worlds leading scholars, activists, and media personalities, including Andrew Bacevich, Noam Chomsky, Talib Kweli, Kalle Lasn, Amy Goodman, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9), and the late Howard Zinn. Those featured share insights on how the seedlings of ideas can transform into inspiring movements and incite change.
"#ReGENERATION" explores how education, parenting, and media can shape society, as the film traces the influence of these institutions on the generation's collective culture.
Each group the film features brings their own unique perspective to the forefront, from an inspired collective of musicians working outside the corporate system to a twenty-something conservative family about to welcome the birth of their second child.
- 3/27/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Alex Simon
"Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind's movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department's greatest hits--on me. "Get off that man, you fat, greasy, racist, redneck pig bitch muthafucka!" My tired eyes snap open; the cracks, thuds, "oofs!" come in all too clear. Damn. No dream. Another dawn, another beating on B-Block, another shackled inmate at Pennsylvania's Huntingdon prison pummeled into the concrete by a squadron of guards." -Mumia Abu-Jamal "B-Block Days & Nightmares"
Stephen Vittoria is that rare commodity in Hollywood today: a filmmaker with a conscience. To be more precise, a filmmaker with a strong political conscience. After making two feature films, Black and White (aka Lou, Pat & Joe D., 1987) and Hollywood Boulevard (1996), as well as...
By Alex Simon
"Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind's movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department's greatest hits--on me. "Get off that man, you fat, greasy, racist, redneck pig bitch muthafucka!" My tired eyes snap open; the cracks, thuds, "oofs!" come in all too clear. Damn. No dream. Another dawn, another beating on B-Block, another shackled inmate at Pennsylvania's Huntingdon prison pummeled into the concrete by a squadron of guards." -Mumia Abu-Jamal "B-Block Days & Nightmares"
Stephen Vittoria is that rare commodity in Hollywood today: a filmmaker with a conscience. To be more precise, a filmmaker with a strong political conscience. After making two feature films, Black and White (aka Lou, Pat & Joe D., 1987) and Hollywood Boulevard (1996), as well as...
- 3/11/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
- 2/26/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Peter Whitehead, via Occupy Cinema
"One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in support of Occupy Wall Street," writes J Hoberman in one of the last pieces he'll turn in at the Voice. "Covering 500 years of American history, this furious beatnik analysis makes a people's historian like Howard Zinn seem like a Chamber of Commerce booster, particularly as delivered amid [Jg] Thirlwell's industrial-strength rhapsodic noise drone, against the seething apocalypse of melting glaciers and crystallized lava that soon becomes an ongoing Rorschach test." See, too, David Phelps's essay. Seeking the Monkey King is "showing with several of Jacobs's short works (19th-century stereopticon slides treated as material for a cyclotron) and excerpts from his 3D footage of Zuccotti Park. Other films showing in the series are An Injury to One (2002), Travis Wilkerson's lucid,...
"One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in support of Occupy Wall Street," writes J Hoberman in one of the last pieces he'll turn in at the Voice. "Covering 500 years of American history, this furious beatnik analysis makes a people's historian like Howard Zinn seem like a Chamber of Commerce booster, particularly as delivered amid [Jg] Thirlwell's industrial-strength rhapsodic noise drone, against the seething apocalypse of melting glaciers and crystallized lava that soon becomes an ongoing Rorschach test." See, too, David Phelps's essay. Seeking the Monkey King is "showing with several of Jacobs's short works (19th-century stereopticon slides treated as material for a cyclotron) and excerpts from his 3D footage of Zuccotti Park. Other films showing in the series are An Injury to One (2002), Travis Wilkerson's lucid,...
- 1/7/2012
- MUBI
Tom Shadyac’s documentary I Am will kick off Own: Oprah Winfrey Network’s Super Soul Sunday programming block on January 1, 2012. Onetime hit feature director Shadyac’s life took quite a turn after he suffered a concussion in a cycling accident that left him unable to work for months. The director of Liar Liar, The Nutty Professor and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective underwent a profound transformation that he chronicles in the movie. I Am follows Shadyac’s quest to answer two questions: “What’s wrong with the world” and “What can we do about it?”. He interviews notable men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, academia and faith — including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Lynne McTaggart, Ray Anderson, John Francis, Coleman Barks and Marc Ian Barasch. Oprah Winfrey’s separate interview with Shadyac introduces the documentary. Super Soul Sunday airs 8-11 Am with an encore beginning at noon.
- 12/11/2011
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
It might not have the gravitas of the Academy Awards (or the Grammys… or the MTV Movie Awards… or the Westminster Dog Show), but the People’s Choice Awards believe in America! Specifically, they believe in the pure unfiltered wisdom of democracy that has made our country great! Sure, you could simply look at box-office receipts, television ratings, and music sales to determine what America likes best, but that makes for a horribly dull awards ceremony. So today the voting begins for the People’s Choice Awards 2012. Click below for all the categories and nominees — including brand new category this year,...
- 11/8/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
“Oh no, the festival hasn’t changed at all in 20 years,” Judy Laster, founder and director of the Woods Hole Film Festival, says with a devilish twinkle in her eyes.
Twenty years ago the first Woods Hole Film Festival was one-hour long with five short films. Today it’s eight-days long and over 100 films with panel discussions and workshops and some of the best social events on the festival circuit. “We could be much larger,” Judy adds, “if we wanted to be. But we don’t. You don’t have to be Sundance to have impact.”
Small yet prestigious, community-anchored with national outreach, in twenty years the Woods Hole Film Festival has grown significantly in size yet remained steadfast in mission. No red carpets here. The festival’s backbone remains an intensely loyal local audience. When screening only five shorts over an hour at one venue, the inaugural Woods Hole...
Twenty years ago the first Woods Hole Film Festival was one-hour long with five short films. Today it’s eight-days long and over 100 films with panel discussions and workshops and some of the best social events on the festival circuit. “We could be much larger,” Judy adds, “if we wanted to be. But we don’t. You don’t have to be Sundance to have impact.”
Small yet prestigious, community-anchored with national outreach, in twenty years the Woods Hole Film Festival has grown significantly in size yet remained steadfast in mission. No red carpets here. The festival’s backbone remains an intensely loyal local audience. When screening only five shorts over an hour at one venue, the inaugural Woods Hole...
- 8/10/2011
- by Stewart Nusbaumer
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Brea Grant, best known as Daphne the speedster on "Heroes," is coming to "Dexter" this fall as a new lab assistant for Masuka. But she's also a comic book nerd - she tells Zap2it she's even publishing a comic book herself, called "Suicide Girls."
"It's sort of a dystopian comic book with five girls who run around with guns and shoot people and fight a giant religious corporation. It's girls, boobs, guns," laughs Brea. She also is writing a comic with her brother Zane called "We Will Bury You." You can catch Brea at booths for both comics during San Diego Comic Con July 21-24. You can get all the details at her official site.
But Brea has also filled out a Celeb Slam Book for us, wherein she admits to loving Oprah, gardening and several other confessions.
If you had to choose another career, what would you be?...
"It's sort of a dystopian comic book with five girls who run around with guns and shoot people and fight a giant religious corporation. It's girls, boobs, guns," laughs Brea. She also is writing a comic with her brother Zane called "We Will Bury You." You can catch Brea at booths for both comics during San Diego Comic Con July 21-24. You can get all the details at her official site.
But Brea has also filled out a Celeb Slam Book for us, wherein she admits to loving Oprah, gardening and several other confessions.
If you had to choose another career, what would you be?...
- 7/20/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The essence of noir is suspicion. The genre is built on a number of narrative and stylistic tropes — dark alleyways, dirty deeds, tough-talking dames, dudes who wear fedoras and drink too much and laugh while they’re frowning — but all the best noir stories are built on a simple, cynical, fundamentally anti-authoritarian foundation: The supposedly ordered nature of modern civilization is a lie, a cover for the swirling chaos that lurks in the shadows. The government cannot protect you. The police cannot protect you. There are bad men in the world who prey on the little people, and sometimes, some...
- 7/5/2011
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
We named them one of our non-headlining acts not to miss at Bonnaroo, and Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears didn’t disappoint. Their Saturday afternoon set got even the sweatiest of festival-goers moving. Paste caught up with Lewis and Zach Ernst to talk about their appearance in Echotone, capturing their live energy in the studio and what went into writing the most danceable Howard Zinn-inspired track you’ll ever hear....
- 6/17/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Updated through 4/30.
The San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest one running in the Americas, opens tonight with Mike Mills's Beginners and closes on May 5 with Mathieu Amalric's On Tour. Among the 150 films screening in between, give or take, will be the centerpiece, Azazel Jacobs's Terri.
"In terms of artistic achievement, it's safe to say no producer has contributed to independent American cinema over the last two decades like Christine Vachon," writes Dennis Harvey, introducing his interview. Vachon will be delivering the State of Cinema address on Sunday evening (it's a busy time for her; she's also on Tribeca's Documentary and Student Short Film Competitions jury). Also at SF360, Michael Fox has cinema studies professor Bill Nichols give him a preview of the discussion he'll be leading on the Social Justice Documentary and talks with Bay Area filmmakers who have work in the lineup.
Max Goldberg...
The San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest one running in the Americas, opens tonight with Mike Mills's Beginners and closes on May 5 with Mathieu Amalric's On Tour. Among the 150 films screening in between, give or take, will be the centerpiece, Azazel Jacobs's Terri.
"In terms of artistic achievement, it's safe to say no producer has contributed to independent American cinema over the last two decades like Christine Vachon," writes Dennis Harvey, introducing his interview. Vachon will be delivering the State of Cinema address on Sunday evening (it's a busy time for her; she's also on Tribeca's Documentary and Student Short Film Competitions jury). Also at SF360, Michael Fox has cinema studies professor Bill Nichols give him a preview of the discussion he'll be leading on the Social Justice Documentary and talks with Bay Area filmmakers who have work in the lineup.
Max Goldberg...
- 4/30/2011
- MUBI
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