On the morning of Saturday, December 11, the award-winning feature film The Red Machine will be screened by the Desert Film Society at the Camelot Theatres in Palm Springs (2300 E. Baristo Road, Palm Springs, CA 92262). Doors will open at 9:00 a.m., when complimentary coffee and breakfast pastries will be available, and then the screening will begin at 9:15 a.m. Co-directors Stephanie Argy & Alec Boehm will be attending the Desert Film Society screening, accompanied by members of the cast and crew. They’ll all do a Q&A after the movie and, in keeping with the 1930s setting of The Red Machine, will also do a Depression-era-style raffle giveaway…prizes [...]...
- 11/22/2010
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Following their collaboration on the short films Gandhi at the Bat and Scene, Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm premiered the UK release of their feature length debut, The Red Machine, at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Despite its low budget the film has so far managed to gain some awards and it is easy to see the great potential within.
Taking place in 1935 Washington, DC at the peak of the Great Depression, cocky safecracker Eddie Doyle’s (Donal Thoms-Cappello) luck runs out and he is captured by the police and offered an opportunity to get his criminal record erased. The catch? He has to team up with the mysterious Navy spy F. Ellis Coburn (Lee Perkins) and steal a device that the Japanese military are using to encode their top-secret messages.
The two men must try and find a way to get through the Japanese Embassy set in Washington, DC and...
Despite its low budget the film has so far managed to gain some awards and it is easy to see the great potential within.
Taking place in 1935 Washington, DC at the peak of the Great Depression, cocky safecracker Eddie Doyle’s (Donal Thoms-Cappello) luck runs out and he is captured by the police and offered an opportunity to get his criminal record erased. The catch? He has to team up with the mysterious Navy spy F. Ellis Coburn (Lee Perkins) and steal a device that the Japanese military are using to encode their top-secret messages.
The two men must try and find a way to get through the Japanese Embassy set in Washington, DC and...
- 6/21/2010
- by Martyn Warren
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Carl catches up with The Red Machine at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Now, can someone make him a 1935 buddy movie?
The introductory scene in this film undoes the rest of the work in the film in less than a minute, which is quite a feat. It all starts in a Navy building in 1935, in which four men sitting in silence around a table are scribbling notes down and looking at Japanese symbols. They are code breakers, and they all seem to know their stuff pretty well, so when one of them gets a new code to break and doesn't understand it, the whole place comes alive with panic.
The red machine in question is a new coding machine built by the Japanese to send messages home from the States, and Lt F Ellis Colburn has been tasked to find it. Naval intelligence has given him a partner to work with too but,...
The introductory scene in this film undoes the rest of the work in the film in less than a minute, which is quite a feat. It all starts in a Navy building in 1935, in which four men sitting in silence around a table are scribbling notes down and looking at Japanese symbols. They are code breakers, and they all seem to know their stuff pretty well, so when one of them gets a new code to break and doesn't understand it, the whole place comes alive with panic.
The red machine in question is a new coding machine built by the Japanese to send messages home from the States, and Lt F Ellis Colburn has been tasked to find it. Naval intelligence has given him a partner to work with too but,...
- 6/21/2010
- Den of Geek
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Edinburgh International Film Festival this afternoon published their full line-up for 2010, and it’s looking good. Check out the website - www.edfilmfest.org.uk
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.
The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...
- 6/1/2010
- QuietEarth.us
I hesitate to refer to these movies as leftovers because they're actually some of the highlights of the festival for me, but through my own fault, they just fell on the wayside as I was covering the Mill Valley Film Festival. So now I'm posting my late reviews of Larry Blamire's B-movie spoof Dark and Stormy Night, Noah Buschel's noir deconstruction The Missing Person, and Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm's period heist flick The Red Machine.
Coincidentally, all three films happen to sport a very retro feel and make use of outdated lingo effectively.
• • •
Dark and Stormy Night
Larry Blamire continues with this film his spoofing of classic B-movies following the semi-popular Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (and its lesser known sequel), culled from the tradition of the Dark House pictures. The plot is of the familiar Agatha Christie variety: suspicious characters trapped in a closed-off space, dying...
Coincidentally, all three films happen to sport a very retro feel and make use of outdated lingo effectively.
• • •
Dark and Stormy Night
Larry Blamire continues with this film his spoofing of classic B-movies following the semi-popular Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (and its lesser known sequel), culled from the tradition of the Dark House pictures. The plot is of the familiar Agatha Christie variety: suspicious characters trapped in a closed-off space, dying...
- 10/27/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
The Mill Valley Film Festival opens tonight, filling the next 10 days with some of the most anticipated films of the rest of the year, as well as a selection of international films making its way to the Bay Area. In addition, the festival will also host the awarding of talents such as Woody Harrelson, Clive Owen, Uma Thurman, Jason Reitman and screen legend Anna Karina.
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
- 10/8/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Title: The Red Machine Directed by: Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm Starring: Lee Perkins (Carnies), Donal Thoms-Cappello, Meg Brogan, Mo Byrnes and Eddie Lee Scores: Technical: 95, Story: 98, Acting: 100, Overall: 99 I watch a lot of independent films… I mean a lot. So when I started watching The Red Machine, I thought I was in for another mediocre story with sub-par acting and a whole lot of disappointment. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of indy films are really good, then there are the ones that could be good with the right budget, and we can’t forget the terrible ones. Obviously some are great… I give you The Red Machine. The Red [...]...
- 7/1/2009
- by dave
- ShockYa
Trailer for independant film "The Red Machine" a spy caper set in 1935 in Washington, D.C. and 1928 in Tokyo. The film stars independant film favourite Lee Perkins (Carnies, Edges of Darkness, KatieBird *Certifiable Crazy Person).
Co-directors Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm won several awards for their 1930's newsreel style short "Gandhi at the Bat".
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Co-directors Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm won several awards for their 1930's newsreel style short "Gandhi at the Bat".
www.redmachinethemovie.com
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tags: crime, drama, independent film, lee perkins, period drama, teaser trailer, trailer, war...
- 5/28/2009
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
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