The Portuguese festival showcases documentaries from around the world.
The 21st edition of DocLisboa will open with Wang Bing’s Man In Black, and will close with Baan from Portuguese director Leonor Teles.
Man In Black premiered at Cannes and Baan made its debut at Locarno earlier this year.
The festival will take place in Lisbon from October 19-29.
Wang Bing, via videoconference, and Telles both participated in the festival press conference on September 28 at which festival director Miguel Ribeiro revealed this year’s programme in full.
Bing explained his film profiles 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important contemporary classical composers,...
The 21st edition of DocLisboa will open with Wang Bing’s Man In Black, and will close with Baan from Portuguese director Leonor Teles.
Man In Black premiered at Cannes and Baan made its debut at Locarno earlier this year.
The festival will take place in Lisbon from October 19-29.
Wang Bing, via videoconference, and Telles both participated in the festival press conference on September 28 at which festival director Miguel Ribeiro revealed this year’s programme in full.
Bing explained his film profiles 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important contemporary classical composers,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Doclisboa's retrospectives are moments distinguished by curatorial projects that aim to offer a precise and comprehensive vision of the themes and filmmakers to which they are dedicated; the preview session that will take place on the terrace of the Cinemateca Portuguesa on the 7th of July at 21h30, will be a first glimpse into this year's programme.
This year Doclisboa, in partnership with Cinemateca Portuguesa, dedicates its thematic retrospective to the delicate coalition of radical filmmakers who, in the midst of the Great Depression, fought to birth the new genre of Social Documentary as a tool for socio-political change in the USA.
In parallel to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's commitment to social justice through the policies of his government's New Deal in the 1930s, a generation of filmmakers sought to infuse facts with feelings, art with agitprop and propaganda, through a cinema of reality that sought to communicate, and perhaps even help resolve,...
This year Doclisboa, in partnership with Cinemateca Portuguesa, dedicates its thematic retrospective to the delicate coalition of radical filmmakers who, in the midst of the Great Depression, fought to birth the new genre of Social Documentary as a tool for socio-political change in the USA.
In parallel to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's commitment to social justice through the policies of his government's New Deal in the 1930s, a generation of filmmakers sought to infuse facts with feelings, art with agitprop and propaganda, through a cinema of reality that sought to communicate, and perhaps even help resolve,...
- 8/13/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
In a city where you can discover a film festival every weekend of the year, perhaps the most unique of such offerings is located in Rockaway, Queens. Taking place just a few blocks from the beach, the 6th edition of the Rockaway Film Festival will occur August 19-August 27, and we’re pleased to exclusively debut the lineup of award-winning documentaries, premieres, live music and dance performances, shorts programmes, and rare repertory screenings.
Organized by Sam Fleischner and Courtney Muller and sponsored by Blundstone®, Istic Illic Pictures, and NYC Ferry, this year’s edition will open at their flagship outdoor theater, Arverne Cinema (constructed using scraps of boardwalk that were destroyed during Hurricane Sandy), with Disney’s famous feature masterpiece Fantasia. There will be a program of shorts preceding it by cine-magician Oskar Fishinger, whose groundbreaking animations changed the cinematic frontier. The festival will also present the New York Premiere of...
Organized by Sam Fleischner and Courtney Muller and sponsored by Blundstone®, Istic Illic Pictures, and NYC Ferry, this year’s edition will open at their flagship outdoor theater, Arverne Cinema (constructed using scraps of boardwalk that were destroyed during Hurricane Sandy), with Disney’s famous feature masterpiece Fantasia. There will be a program of shorts preceding it by cine-magician Oskar Fishinger, whose groundbreaking animations changed the cinematic frontier. The festival will also present the New York Premiere of...
- 8/4/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Museum of Modern Art
One of our greatest living filmmakers, Tsai Ming-liang, is subject of a career-spanning retrospective that starts today; Tsai will give a talk on Saturday.
Film at Lincoln Center
A 4K restoration of Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique begins a run.
Roxy Cinema
Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein, Michael Mann’s The Keep, and Coppola’s Dracula play on 35mm, while Weyes Blood presents prints of Virginia Woolf and Rebecca.
Museum of the Moving Image
See It Big: Extended Cuts! offers unique opportunity to see films in their original form, starting with Once Upon a Time in America and Little Shop of Horrors; the great Manny Kirchheimer and Leo Hurwitz are subject of a series.
Film Forum
Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective with work by Godard, Pialat, Verhoeven, and Haneke; Breathless continues,...
Museum of Modern Art
One of our greatest living filmmakers, Tsai Ming-liang, is subject of a career-spanning retrospective that starts today; Tsai will give a talk on Saturday.
Film at Lincoln Center
A 4K restoration of Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique begins a run.
Roxy Cinema
Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein, Michael Mann’s The Keep, and Coppola’s Dracula play on 35mm, while Weyes Blood presents prints of Virginia Woolf and Rebecca.
Museum of the Moving Image
See It Big: Extended Cuts! offers unique opportunity to see films in their original form, starting with Once Upon a Time in America and Little Shop of Horrors; the great Manny Kirchheimer and Leo Hurwitz are subject of a series.
Film Forum
Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective with work by Godard, Pialat, Verhoeven, and Haneke; Breathless continues,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
NYFF Revivals concludes with restorations of Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion, Beirut the Encounter, Canyon Passage, and Black God, White Devil.
Film Forum
Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective with work by Godard and Chabrol; Breathless continues, while Wallace and Gromit shows on Sunday.
Japan Society
Mamoru Oshii’s legendary Angel’s Egg screens on Friday.
Roxy Cinema
Weyes Blood presents Possession, An American Werewolf in London, Virginia Woolf, and Hardcore on 35mm, as well as Funeral Parade of Roses and Rebecca; Band of Outsiders and a print of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence also screen.
Anthology Film Archives
Alexei German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! has a revival run; a retrospective of Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina continues.
IFC Center
Guy Maddin (who we spoke to here) presents a restoration of his...
Film at Lincoln Center
NYFF Revivals concludes with restorations of Edward Yang’s A Confucian Confusion, Beirut the Encounter, Canyon Passage, and Black God, White Devil.
Film Forum
Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective with work by Godard and Chabrol; Breathless continues, while Wallace and Gromit shows on Sunday.
Japan Society
Mamoru Oshii’s legendary Angel’s Egg screens on Friday.
Roxy Cinema
Weyes Blood presents Possession, An American Werewolf in London, Virginia Woolf, and Hardcore on 35mm, as well as Funeral Parade of Roses and Rebecca; Band of Outsiders and a print of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence also screen.
Anthology Film Archives
Alexei German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! has a revival run; a retrospective of Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina continues.
IFC Center
Guy Maddin (who we spoke to here) presents a restoration of his...
- 10/13/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
If 2021 has been a calvacade of bad decisions, dashed hopes, and warning signs for cinema’s strength, the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming has at least buttressed our hopes for something like a better tomorrow. Anyway. The Channel will let us ride out distended (holi)days in the family home with an extensive Alfred Hitchcock series to bring the family together—from the established Rear Window and Vertigo to the (let’s just guess) lesser-seen Downhill and Young and Innocent—Johnnie To’s Throw Down and Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons in their Criterion editions, and some streaming premieres: Ste. Anne, Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over, and The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.
Special notice to Yvonne Rainer’s brain-expanding Film About a Woman Who . . .—debuting in “Female Gaze: Women Directors + Women Cinematographers,” a series that does as it says on the tin—and a Joseph Cotten retro boasting Ambersons,...
Special notice to Yvonne Rainer’s brain-expanding Film About a Woman Who . . .—debuting in “Female Gaze: Women Directors + Women Cinematographers,” a series that does as it says on the tin—and a Joseph Cotten retro boasting Ambersons,...
- 11/21/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
John Sayles’ coal strike epic is grand American filmmaking bolstered by fine Haskell Wexler cinematography, great performances by dedicated actors, and a screenplay that avoids the common pitfalls of liberal filmmaking — by assuming the structure of an action Western. Filmed on a shoestring not far from the site of historical events, the pro- Union picture revs up viewer emotions, winding up as a moving, satisfying experience. Matewan’s been out of circulation far too long, but those that remember it will give it a high recommendation.
Matewan
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 999
1987 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 133 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 29, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn, Ken Jenkins, Kevin Tighe, Gordon Clapp, Bob Gunton, Jace Alexander, Joe Grifasi, Nancy Mette, Jo Henderson, Josh Mostel, Gary McCleery, Maggie Renzi, Tom Wright.
Cinematography: Haskell Wexler
Film Editor: Sonya Polonsky
Original Music: Mason Daring
Produced by Peggy Rajski,...
Matewan
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 999
1987 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 133 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 29, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn, Ken Jenkins, Kevin Tighe, Gordon Clapp, Bob Gunton, Jace Alexander, Joe Grifasi, Nancy Mette, Jo Henderson, Josh Mostel, Gary McCleery, Maggie Renzi, Tom Wright.
Cinematography: Haskell Wexler
Film Editor: Sonya Polonsky
Original Music: Mason Daring
Produced by Peggy Rajski,...
- 10/29/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
‘This Picture Kills Fascists’ might be a motto for this bombshell essay documentary. Leo Hurwitz’s film wasn’t made welcome in 1948 and would surely be controversial today, as it’s just too &%#$ truthful and blunt about good old American bigotry and injustice. The passionate, jarring plea for humanist sanity really shakes up viewers, in a constructive way. Hurwitz said that one TV executive compared it to The Sermon on the Mount. It’s still a lightning bolt against fascist ideas flourishing in the Land of the Free.
Strange Victory
Blu-ray
The Milestone Cinematheque
1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 64 min. / available through Milestone Films / Street Date August 14, 2018 / 34.95
Narrators: Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill, Saul Levitt, Faith Elliott.
Actors: Virgil Richardson, Sophie Maslow, Cathey McGregor, Jack Henderson, Robert P. Donley.
Cinematography: Peter Glushanok, George Jacobsen
Film Editors: Leo Hurwitz, Faith Elliott (Hubley), Mavis Lyons
Original Music: David Diamond
Written by Saul Levitt,...
Strange Victory
Blu-ray
The Milestone Cinematheque
1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 64 min. / available through Milestone Films / Street Date August 14, 2018 / 34.95
Narrators: Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Gary Merrill, Saul Levitt, Faith Elliott.
Actors: Virgil Richardson, Sophie Maslow, Cathey McGregor, Jack Henderson, Robert P. Donley.
Cinematography: Peter Glushanok, George Jacobsen
Film Editors: Leo Hurwitz, Faith Elliott (Hubley), Mavis Lyons
Original Music: David Diamond
Written by Saul Levitt,...
- 7/17/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Lewis Milestone’s poetic character study of an infantry landing in Italy gives us a full dozen non-cliché portraits of men in war, featuring a dramatic dream team of interesting character actors. Dana Andrews was the only big star in the cast, joined by hopefuls Richard Conte, Lloyd Bridges and John Ireland; the standout crew includes Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd, Steve Brodie and Huntz Hall.
A Walk in the Sun
DVD
The Sprocket Vault / Kit Parker Films
1945 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 117 min. / Restored Collector’s Edition / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99
Starring: Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd Dana Andrews, Herbert Rudley, Richard Benedict, Huntz Hall, James Cardwell, Steve Brodie, Matt Willis, Chris Drake, John Kellogg, Robert Horton, Burgess Meredith.
Cinematography: Russell Harlan
Film Editor: Duncan Mansfield
Original Music: Fredric Efrem Rich; ‘The Ballads’ sung by : Kenneth Spencer
Written by: Robert...
A Walk in the Sun
DVD
The Sprocket Vault / Kit Parker Films
1945 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 117 min. / Restored Collector’s Edition / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99
Starring: Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd Dana Andrews, Herbert Rudley, Richard Benedict, Huntz Hall, James Cardwell, Steve Brodie, Matt Willis, Chris Drake, John Kellogg, Robert Horton, Burgess Meredith.
Cinematography: Russell Harlan
Film Editor: Duncan Mansfield
Original Music: Fredric Efrem Rich; ‘The Ballads’ sung by : Kenneth Spencer
Written by: Robert...
- 2/15/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan. Courtesy of the filmmaker.It’s rare to come across such a humble yet cogent body of work as that of Manfred Kirchheimer. His career stretches across six decades but it would be a mistake to reduce his films to mere historical records, for they can enclose enthralling stories of ordinary New Yorkers or celebrate the beauty of urban structures all while confronting head-on layered questions on class, race and identity. Throughout the years, his subjects have fluctuated from workers pushing carts through New York’s Garment District, the docking of a transatlantic ocean liner or a community of Jewish émigrés in the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights. As modest as his filmography might seem, one shouldn’t oversee its substantial contribution to American documentary and independent cinema.During a recent conversation, Kirchheimer told me he had recently retired as a teacher at the...
- 2/9/2017
- MUBI
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.)
This week’s question: This past Friday saw the release of Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro,” a documentary that speaks to our present moment through the writings and actions of the late James Baldwin. What other documentaries — recent or not — might help people better understand and / or respond to the state of the world today?
Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
“The state of the world today” is too big a matter for any one documentary, because there’s no one state of things, there’s an overwhelming diversity of experiences — and the history of movies is as much the history of the ones that it doesn’t show.
This week’s question: This past Friday saw the release of Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro,” a documentary that speaks to our present moment through the writings and actions of the late James Baldwin. What other documentaries — recent or not — might help people better understand and / or respond to the state of the world today?
Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
“The state of the world today” is too big a matter for any one documentary, because there’s no one state of things, there’s an overwhelming diversity of experiences — and the history of movies is as much the history of the ones that it doesn’t show.
- 2/6/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Looking to discover a top-quality film that honors lasting values? Jean Renoir gives Zachary Scott and Betty Field as Texas sharecroppers trying to survive a rough first year. It's beautifully written by Hugo Butler, with given realistic, earthy touches not found in Hollywood pix. And the transfer is a new UCLA restoration. With two impressive short subjects in equal good quality. The Southerner Blu-ray Kino Classics 1945 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 92 min. / Street Date February 9, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, Carol Naish, Norman Lloyd, Zachary Scott, Percy Kilbride, Charles Kemper, Blanche Yurka, Estelle Taylor, Paul Harvey, Noreen Nash, Nestor Paiva, Almira Sessions. Cinematography Lucien Andriot Film Editor Gregg C. Tallas Production Designer Eugène Lourié Assistant Director Robert Aldrich Original Music Werner Janssen Written by Hugo Butler, Jean Renoir from a novel by George Sessions Perry Produced by Robert Hakim, David L. Loew Directed by Jean Renoir...
- 1/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Get your beret and warm up the espresso! Some of the most famous deep-dish art film is here -- in HD -- starting with attempts to translate various art 'isms' to the screen, to graphics-oriented abstractions, to 'city symphonies' to the dream visions of Maya Deren and beyond. The careful remasters reproduce proper projection speeds and original music. Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 Blu-ray + DVD Flicker Alley 1920-1970 / B&W and Color / 1:33 full frame / 418 min. / Street Date October 6, 2015 / 59.95 With films by James Agee, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, Stan Brakhage, James Broughton, Rudolph Burckhardt, Mary Ellen Bute, Joseph Cornell, Jim Davis, Maya Deren, Marcel Duchamp, Emien Etting, Oksar Fischinger, Robert Florey, Amy Greenfield, A. Hackenschmied, Alexander Hammid, Hillary Harris, Hy Hirsh, Ian Hugo, Lawrence Janiac, Lawrence Jordan, Owen Land, Francis Lee, Fernand Léger, Helen Levitt, Jan Leyda, Janice Loeb, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Dudley Murphy, Ted Nemeth, Bernard O'Brien,...
- 10/6/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Weinstein Company has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Paul Andrew Williams' Holocaust courtroom drama "The Eichmann Show." Content Media is handling international sales for the film and is screening it to buyers for the first time at the European Film Market in Berlin. The drama stars Anthony Lapaglia and Martin Freeman as TV director Leo Hurwitz and producer Milton Fruchtman, respectively, who set out to capture the testimony of one of WWII’s most notorious Nazis and reveal the true horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Based on the 1961 "trial of the century," "The Eichmann Show" goes behind the scenes of an extraordinary moment in television and political history just like acclaimed dramas "Frost/Nixon" and "Good Night and Good Luck" before it. "'The Eichmann Show' is a fascinating exploration of the Holocaust and its aftermath told in a innovative and captivating way that viewers haven't seen,...
- 2/9/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Refresh for latest… The Weinstein Co has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Eichmann Show, the feature-length drama that stars Martin Freeman and Anthony Lapaglia and charts the 1961 Trial of the Century of Adolf Eichmann. Directed by Paul Andrew Williams, the drama follows the televised trial of one of the key architects of the Holocaust in a behind-the-scenes look at how black-listed TV director Leo Hurwitz (Lapaglia) and ground-breaking producer Milton Fruchtman (Freeman) set out to capture his testimony. Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman and Nicholas Woodeson also star. Content Media is selling the Feelgood Fiction/BBC production that integrates actual footage from the trial which became the first truly global TV event — shown in 37 countries over four months — and was the first time the horror of the death camps had been heard live from the mouths of its victims. Simon Block wrote the script for the film which aired...
- 2/7/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Fernando Eimbcke, Olga Kurylenko and Joshua Oppenheimer will make up the Best First Feature Award jury at this year's Berlinale. More announcements today: Forum Special Screenings will include Tatiana Brandrup's Cinema: A Public Affair, Alejandro Galindo's Cuatro contra el mundo (Four Against the World, 1950), Leo Hurwitz's Strange Victory (1948), Louis de Witt's Joe Bullet (1973) and three newly restored films by Kon Ichikawa. Generation Kplus has added "Sonthar Gyal’s touching story of a family," Gtsngbo (River), "set in the Tibetan steppe," to its lineup. Also added is Levan Akin's Cirkeln (The Circle). » - David Hudson...
- 1/22/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Fernando Eimbcke, Olga Kurylenko and Joshua Oppenheimer will make up the Best First Feature Award jury at this year's Berlinale. More announcements today: Forum Special Screenings will include Tatiana Brandrup's Cinema: A Public Affair, Alejandro Galindo's Cuatro contra el mundo (Four Against the World, 1950), Leo Hurwitz's Strange Victory (1948), Louis de Witt's Joe Bullet (1973) and three newly restored films by Kon Ichikawa. Generation Kplus has added "Sonthar Gyal’s touching story of a family," Gtsngbo (River), "set in the Tibetan steppe," to its lineup. Also added is Levan Akin's Cirkeln (The Circle). » - David Hudson...
- 1/22/2015
- Keyframe
The first trailer for BBC Two film The Eichmann Show has been revealed.
The drama tells the story of Martin Freeman's character Milton Fruchtman, the groundbreaking producer who fought to televise the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961.
The clip sees Anthony Lapaglia stars as director Leo Hurwitz, while The Thickof It's Rebecca Front plays a Holocaust survivor.
Andy Nyman (Peaky Blinders) and Nicholas Woodeson (The Honourable Woman) also star in the drama.
The Adolf Eichmann trial, described as the 'trial of the century', was televised in 37 countries. It was the first time that most people had heard about the full horror of the death camps.
The Eichmann Show will be the centrepiece of the BBC's season to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp during the Second World War.
The drama tells the story of Martin Freeman's character Milton Fruchtman, the groundbreaking producer who fought to televise the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961.
The clip sees Anthony Lapaglia stars as director Leo Hurwitz, while The Thickof It's Rebecca Front plays a Holocaust survivor.
Andy Nyman (Peaky Blinders) and Nicholas Woodeson (The Honourable Woman) also star in the drama.
The Adolf Eichmann trial, described as the 'trial of the century', was televised in 37 countries. It was the first time that most people had heard about the full horror of the death camps.
The Eichmann Show will be the centrepiece of the BBC's season to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp during the Second World War.
- 1/14/2015
- Digital Spy
The first picture of Martin Freeman's BBC Two film The Eichmann Show has been released.
The actor has been cast as groundbreaking producer Milton Fruchtman, who fought to televise the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961.
In the first picture from the 90-minute film, Freeman is seen with co-star Anthony Lapaglia, who stars as director Leo Hurwitz.
Meanwhile, it has been announced that Rebecca Front (The Thick of It), Andy Nyman (Peaky Blinders) and Nicholas Woodeson (The Honourable Woman) will also star in the drama.
Front will play Mrs Landau, the owner of a hotel Hurwitz stayed at while in Israel, while Nyman will play David Landor, the Head of the Israeli Government Press Office.
Woodeson will play Yaakov, who was one of the cameramen who worked on the trial. Yaakov was also a survivor of the concentration camps.
The Adolf Eichmann trial, described as the 'trial of the century',...
The actor has been cast as groundbreaking producer Milton Fruchtman, who fought to televise the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961.
In the first picture from the 90-minute film, Freeman is seen with co-star Anthony Lapaglia, who stars as director Leo Hurwitz.
Meanwhile, it has been announced that Rebecca Front (The Thick of It), Andy Nyman (Peaky Blinders) and Nicholas Woodeson (The Honourable Woman) will also star in the drama.
Front will play Mrs Landau, the owner of a hotel Hurwitz stayed at while in Israel, while Nyman will play David Landor, the Head of the Israeli Government Press Office.
Woodeson will play Yaakov, who was one of the cameramen who worked on the trial. Yaakov was also a survivor of the concentration camps.
The Adolf Eichmann trial, described as the 'trial of the century',...
- 10/23/2014
- Digital Spy
Christopher Eccleston has been cast with Marsha Thomason (White Collar) and Paterson Joseph (The Leftovers) in ITV’s new four-part drama series Safe House. Produced by Eleventh Hour Films, Safe House is a thriller set in the wilderness of England’s Lake District. Eccleston plays Robert, a former detective who is asked by a close friend and police officer to turn his family’s remote guest house into a safe house. Their first ‘guests’ are a family in fear of their lives after they are violently attacked. For Robert, protecting them resurrects fears and anxieties bound up in a terrifying night gone wrong with a star witness. As a consequence of running the safe house, Robert begins to questions the incident and uncovers a web of lies. Inspired by a real couple, Safe House is written by Michael Crompton (Kidnap & Ransom, Carrie’s War), and directed by Marc Evans (Hinterland,...
- 10/7/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
As part of a set of programmes to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the BBC is working on a centrepiece drama about the televised 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. The Beeb has Martin Freeman and Anthony Lapaglia aboard to star.The 90-minute TV movie, titled The Eichmann Show, follows events surrounding what was described as the “trial of the century”, broadcast in 37 countries over four months as one of the most notorious Nazis – the man who had overseen the death camps – was brought to justice. He was eventually sentenced to death and hanged in 1962.80% of the German population watched the trial, which became the first ever global TV event. Freeman is set to play producer Milton Fruchtman and Lapaglia will be director Leo Hurwitz, two of the men responsible for capturing the trial for the world to see. To see the full list of programmes and events in the anniversary series,...
- 10/6/2014
- EmpireOnline
Martin Freeman will play the British TV producer who turned the 1961 trial of fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann into a worldwide television event. The Eichmann Show will be a BBC2 drama that tells the story of how producer Milton Fruchtman and director Leo Hurwitz (Anthony Lapaglia) televised the trial of the century, which exposed the horrors of the Holocaust to a global audience over four months in 1961. Eichmann had been one of the architects of the Final Solution, the genocide of the European Jewish population during World War II. He had fled to South America after the war but was captured...
- 10/6/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside TV
"Sherlock" and "The Hobbit" star Martin Freeman will team with "Without a Trace" lead Anthony Lapaglia in the upcoming 90-minute BBC telemovie "The Eichmann Show".
The pair will play TV producer Milton Fruchtman and director Leo Hurwitz respectively. The pair were responsible for putting together one of the first global television events, televising a trial to thirty-seven countries over four months in 1961.
That trial? Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief Nazi architects of the Holocaust. The project is one of several events the network has planned for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Source: Radio Times...
The pair will play TV producer Milton Fruchtman and director Leo Hurwitz respectively. The pair were responsible for putting together one of the first global television events, televising a trial to thirty-seven countries over four months in 1961.
That trial? Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief Nazi architects of the Holocaust. The project is one of several events the network has planned for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Source: Radio Times...
- 10/6/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
To mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the BBC has commissioned a 90-minute dramatization of the global broadcast of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief Nazi architects of the Holocaust, according to an article on the Radio Times website published Sunday. The Eichmann Show will feature Martin Freeman (Fargo, Sherlock, The Hobbit trilogy) playing TV producer Milton Fruchtman, with Anthony Lapaglia (Without a Trace) starring as TV director Leo Hurwitz. Fruchtman and Hurwitz were responsible for putting together one of the first global television events when Eichmann's trial was televised to 37 countries over four months
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- 10/6/2014
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Freeman and Anthony Lapaglia will star in a BBC Two drama about the televising of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the main architects of the Holocaust.
The Eichmann Show will be the centrepiece of the BBC's season to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp during the Second World War.
The 90-minute film will star Freeman as producer Milton Fruchtman and Lapaglia as director Leo Hurwitz.
The Adolf Eichmann trial, described as the 'trial of the century', was televised in 37 countries. It was the first time that most people had heard about the full horror of the death camps.
The BBC will also air a string of documentaries about remembrance. A Story of Remembrance will see three women tell their stories to reinforce why the memory of the Holocaust should never be forgotten.
Touched by Auschwitz will explore the lives...
The Eichmann Show will be the centrepiece of the BBC's season to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp during the Second World War.
The 90-minute film will star Freeman as producer Milton Fruchtman and Lapaglia as director Leo Hurwitz.
The Adolf Eichmann trial, described as the 'trial of the century', was televised in 37 countries. It was the first time that most people had heard about the full horror of the death camps.
The BBC will also air a string of documentaries about remembrance. A Story of Remembrance will see three women tell their stories to reinforce why the memory of the Holocaust should never be forgotten.
Touched by Auschwitz will explore the lives...
- 10/5/2014
- Digital Spy
From John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, comes word that legendary publisher and film distributor Barney Rosset has passed away at the age of 89. Gall points us to a lively profile by Louisa Thomas that ran in Newsweek in late 2008: "Rosset's publishing house, Grove Press, was a tiny company operating out of the ground floor of Rosset's brownstone when it published an obscure play called Waiting for Godot in 1954. By the time Beckett had won the Nobel Prize in 1969, Grove had become a force that challenged and changed literature and American culture in deep and lasting ways. Its impact is still evident — from the Che Guevara posters adorning college dorms to the canonical status of the house's once controversial authors. Rosset is less well known — but late in his life he is achieving some wider recognition. Last month, a black-tie crowd gave Rosset a standing ovation...
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
Updated through 3/11.
"After the documentary world's boldface names of the 1920s and 30s — Robert Flaherty, Joris Ivens, Pare Lorentz — the typical college-survey doc hit parade goes silent until cinema vérité," writes Nicolas Rapold in the Voice. "Anthology's eye-opening 13-program series posits an intervening 'New York School' of lefty filmmakers, and then focuses on one eye-opening blacklistee: Leo Hurwitz, forefather of cinema vérité and TV news broadcasting, forger of a soulful yet rigorous style of film essay."...
"After the documentary world's boldface names of the 1920s and 30s — Robert Flaherty, Joris Ivens, Pare Lorentz — the typical college-survey doc hit parade goes silent until cinema vérité," writes Nicolas Rapold in the Voice. "Anthology's eye-opening 13-program series posits an intervening 'New York School' of lefty filmmakers, and then focuses on one eye-opening blacklistee: Leo Hurwitz, forefather of cinema vérité and TV news broadcasting, forger of a soulful yet rigorous style of film essay."...
- 3/11/2010
- MUBI
Updated through 3/11.
"After the documentary world's boldface names of the 1920s and 30s — Robert Flaherty, Joris Ivens, Pare Lorentz — the typical college-survey doc hit parade goes silent until cinema vérité," writes Nicolas Rapold in the Voice. "Anthology's eye-opening 13-program series posits an intervening 'New York School' of lefty filmmakers, and then focuses on one eye-opening blacklistee: Leo Hurwitz, forefather of cinema vérité and TV news broadcasting, forger of a soulful yet rigorous style of film essay."...
"After the documentary world's boldface names of the 1920s and 30s — Robert Flaherty, Joris Ivens, Pare Lorentz — the typical college-survey doc hit parade goes silent until cinema vérité," writes Nicolas Rapold in the Voice. "Anthology's eye-opening 13-program series posits an intervening 'New York School' of lefty filmmakers, and then focuses on one eye-opening blacklistee: Leo Hurwitz, forefather of cinema vérité and TV news broadcasting, forger of a soulful yet rigorous style of film essay."...
- 3/11/2010
- MUBI
Repertory theaters on the coasts are truly offering a window onto the world this spring, with Jia Zhangke and Bong Joon-ho retrospectives, as well as New French Cinema in New York, "Freebie and the Bean," "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" and Jason Reitman's favorite films invade Los Angeles, and the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin is offering a fond farewell to the video cassette. But consider this a hello to seeing classics, oddities and rarities on the big screen over the next few months.
Cities: [New York] [Los Angeles] [Austin] More Spring Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
Is there a more energetic way to start the spring than with a screening of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Feb. 20, with editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in attendance)? Perhaps not, but it's only the start of an exciting spring season at the 92YTribeca Screening Room, which will present several special events over the next few months.
Cities: [New York] [Los Angeles] [Austin] More Spring Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
Is there a more energetic way to start the spring than with a screening of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Feb. 20, with editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in attendance)? Perhaps not, but it's only the start of an exciting spring season at the 92YTribeca Screening Room, which will present several special events over the next few months.
- 2/20/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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