Lily Gladstone is single-handedly expanding Indigenous representation in film with two upcoming projects.
The “Killers of the Flower Moon” Oscar nominee narrates and executive produces documentary “Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya” about the buffalo restoration on the Blackfeet Reservation. The film will premiere at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on February 24 in Missoula, Montana.
“‘Bring Them Home’ highlights a crucial story of survival; of Iinnii, our Buffalo, of Blackfoot people and our culture, and of the very land which we call home,” Gladstone said in a press statement. “Like the Buffalo, our land does not acknowledge fences, and nor does our changing climate. For the Blackfeet, survival of the Buffalo has always been intrinsically connected to our survival as people — the revitalization of this knowledge is essential for not just us, but for all of us who share this planet, and who work to nurture hope for our collective future.
The “Killers of the Flower Moon” Oscar nominee narrates and executive produces documentary “Bring Them Home/Aiskótáhkapiyaaya” about the buffalo restoration on the Blackfeet Reservation. The film will premiere at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on February 24 in Missoula, Montana.
“‘Bring Them Home’ highlights a crucial story of survival; of Iinnii, our Buffalo, of Blackfoot people and our culture, and of the very land which we call home,” Gladstone said in a press statement. “Like the Buffalo, our land does not acknowledge fences, and nor does our changing climate. For the Blackfeet, survival of the Buffalo has always been intrinsically connected to our survival as people — the revitalization of this knowledge is essential for not just us, but for all of us who share this planet, and who work to nurture hope for our collective future.
- 2/14/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Lily Gladstone is set to reteam with Morrisa Maltz on Jazzy, a companion piece and follow-up to their acclaimed indie drama The Unknown Country, released by Music Box Films, which brought Gladstone a Gotham Award last fall. In addition to starring, Gladstone will exec produce, along with the team at Duplass Brothers Productions.
While The Unknown Country followed Gladstone’s character — the grieving Tana — on a lonely road trip across America, it also introduced the scene-stealing character of Jazzy, based on and played by Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux, a young Oglala Lakota girl growing up in South Dakota. The roles are flipped in Jazzy, with Shangreaux taking center stage and Gladstone supporting her narrative journey. Shot over six years, the film sees Jazzy and her peers grow up on camera as they navigate the space between childhood and young adulthood. When her best friend moves away, Jazzy experiences both a...
While The Unknown Country followed Gladstone’s character — the grieving Tana — on a lonely road trip across America, it also introduced the scene-stealing character of Jazzy, based on and played by Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux, a young Oglala Lakota girl growing up in South Dakota. The roles are flipped in Jazzy, with Shangreaux taking center stage and Gladstone supporting her narrative journey. Shot over six years, the film sees Jazzy and her peers grow up on camera as they navigate the space between childhood and young adulthood. When her best friend moves away, Jazzy experiences both a...
- 2/14/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
This article contains spoilers for Reservation Dogs season 3 episode 10.
With the premiere of its final episode, FX’s Reservation Dogs has officially been sent off that good way. The season 3 finale, titled “Dig,” is filled with indelible moments that neatly wrap up three superb seasons and prepare the titular Rez Dogs for a glorious future to come.
Amid all that excitement, however, is one little in-joke that the less attentive viewer may have missed. As the town of Okern, Oklahoma gathers in the local church to pay their respects to departed Old Man Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman), several well-wishers assemble around the medicine man’s casket. One of those mourners is local constable/lighthorseman Big (Zahn McClarnon).
“Thank you for changing my life, brother,” a tearful Big says to Fixico before placing a hardcover book in his coffin.
Upon a closer inspection, the book is titled Man Moon. It also...
With the premiere of its final episode, FX’s Reservation Dogs has officially been sent off that good way. The season 3 finale, titled “Dig,” is filled with indelible moments that neatly wrap up three superb seasons and prepare the titular Rez Dogs for a glorious future to come.
Amid all that excitement, however, is one little in-joke that the less attentive viewer may have missed. As the town of Okern, Oklahoma gathers in the local church to pay their respects to departed Old Man Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman), several well-wishers assemble around the medicine man’s casket. One of those mourners is local constable/lighthorseman Big (Zahn McClarnon).
“Thank you for changing my life, brother,” a tearful Big says to Fixico before placing a hardcover book in his coffin.
Upon a closer inspection, the book is titled Man Moon. It also...
- 9/28/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
This article contains spoilers for Reservation Dogs season 3 episode 10.
Many television shows try to be about community. Hell, one series tried so hard that it violated Seo best practices to just go ahead and name itself Community. I would wager, however, that no TV program ever has better understood the concept of community, nor articulated what it means more effectively than FX’s Reservation Dogs.
The series, which just finished its three-season run on Hulu, began as a simple comedy following four Indigenous teens in their small reservation town of Okern, Oklahoma. Just as those teens – Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) – grew to realize that their world was much bigger than pilfered potato chips and petty rivalries, so too did Reservation Dogs grow.
Throughout its richly-realized third season, Reservation Dogs has carefully and empathetically communicated how little the youth sometimes realize that they need their elders.
Many television shows try to be about community. Hell, one series tried so hard that it violated Seo best practices to just go ahead and name itself Community. I would wager, however, that no TV program ever has better understood the concept of community, nor articulated what it means more effectively than FX’s Reservation Dogs.
The series, which just finished its three-season run on Hulu, began as a simple comedy following four Indigenous teens in their small reservation town of Okern, Oklahoma. Just as those teens – Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) – grew to realize that their world was much bigger than pilfered potato chips and petty rivalries, so too did Reservation Dogs grow.
Throughout its richly-realized third season, Reservation Dogs has carefully and empathetically communicated how little the youth sometimes realize that they need their elders.
- 9/28/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Spoiler Alert: This column contains spoilers from “Dig,” the series finale of FX’s “Reservation Dogs,” now streaming on Hulu.
Death has always loomed over “Reservation Dogs,” the coming-of-age comedy that concludes its run on FX this week. When the show began, its teenage protagonists were still actively mourning their friend Daniel (Dalton Cramer), who died by suicide a year prior. Over three seasons, the show emphasized its namesake foursome were not alone in their grief. Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs) doesn’t remember much about her late mother, but her mother’s friends do; when Elora’s grandmother Mabel (Geraldine Keams) passes away, her final hours bring the entire small, Native town of Okern, Oklahoma into their home. Some of the series’ most memorable characters, like warrior William Knifeman (Dallas Goldtooth), are themselves no longer living — they’re spirits who return to counsel those left behind.
So of all the...
Death has always loomed over “Reservation Dogs,” the coming-of-age comedy that concludes its run on FX this week. When the show began, its teenage protagonists were still actively mourning their friend Daniel (Dalton Cramer), who died by suicide a year prior. Over three seasons, the show emphasized its namesake foursome were not alone in their grief. Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs) doesn’t remember much about her late mother, but her mother’s friends do; when Elora’s grandmother Mabel (Geraldine Keams) passes away, her final hours bring the entire small, Native town of Okern, Oklahoma into their home. Some of the series’ most memorable characters, like warrior William Knifeman (Dallas Goldtooth), are themselves no longer living — they’re spirits who return to counsel those left behind.
So of all the...
- 9/27/2023
- by Alison Herman
- Variety Film + TV
‘Reservation Dogs’ Series Finale: Sterlin Harjo On Saying Goodbye With Love, Legacy & “Fekke Hvmken”
Spoiler Alert: This article contains detains of the Reservation Dogs series finale “Dig,” which dropped late last night on Hulu.
“I’m leaving,” Elora (Devery Jacobs) tells Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) in the Reservation Dogs series finale as they sit before the coffin of Old Man Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman). “It’s awesome … I’m proud of you,” Bear replies after a pause, giving his best friend his support. “I mean, of course, I’m going to miss you,” he adds, as the duo tell each other with tears how much they truly love each other after all they have been through over the show’s three seasons.
“You’re reminded we’re a community, and we take care of each other, and that is something that I’ve always wanted to show in this show,” co-creator Sterlin Harjo says of the finale, the funeral and the series itself. As he...
“I’m leaving,” Elora (Devery Jacobs) tells Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) in the Reservation Dogs series finale as they sit before the coffin of Old Man Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman). “It’s awesome … I’m proud of you,” Bear replies after a pause, giving his best friend his support. “I mean, of course, I’m going to miss you,” he adds, as the duo tell each other with tears how much they truly love each other after all they have been through over the show’s three seasons.
“You’re reminded we’re a community, and we take care of each other, and that is something that I’ve always wanted to show in this show,” co-creator Sterlin Harjo says of the finale, the funeral and the series itself. As he...
- 9/27/2023
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
“Reservation Dogs” ended its three-season run on Wednesday with a funeral — but also with a lot of joy. In bringing almost all of the show’s characters into one place for one final gathering, co-creator Sterlin Harjo said his goal was to show how “Reservation Dogs” was much bigger than just the kids at its heart.
“It’s not just for kids on the rez,” Harjo told Variety. “It is their whole community. And we see that by going back into the past with some of the elders. We see that by learning more about the other characters. I wanted to illustrate that in the finale, which is all of them coming together for a goodbye to one of their own.”
As the episode draws to a close, the town celebrates as they pay tribute to the passing of Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman).
“I thought that it would be the...
“It’s not just for kids on the rez,” Harjo told Variety. “It is their whole community. And we see that by going back into the past with some of the elders. We see that by learning more about the other characters. I wanted to illustrate that in the finale, which is all of them coming together for a goodbye to one of their own.”
As the episode draws to a close, the town celebrates as they pay tribute to the passing of Fixico (Richard Ray Whitman).
“I thought that it would be the...
- 9/27/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Writer and creator Sterlin Harjo promised that the Season 3 finale of “Reservation Dogs” would serve as the perfect ending to the FX series on Hulu. It’s a bold claim in a culture that often sees fans ripping finales and their writers apart. But if the first few episodes of Season 3 are any indication, it’s more than likely our beloved Rez Dogs will get as close to perfect as possible.
From the first four episodes of the final season available for review, it’s clear the writers know exactly what the viewers want: Surreal spirits and quirky side characters guiding and challenging the young crew. Storytelling that manages to weave together the silly and absurd with some of the harsh realities Native populations have had to face over generations (the atrocities and aftermath of Indian boarding schools get called out on more than one occasion this season). And of course,...
From the first four episodes of the final season available for review, it’s clear the writers know exactly what the viewers want: Surreal spirits and quirky side characters guiding and challenging the young crew. Storytelling that manages to weave together the silly and absurd with some of the harsh realities Native populations have had to face over generations (the atrocities and aftermath of Indian boarding schools get called out on more than one occasion this season). And of course,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Priscilla Blossom
- The Wrap
The official trailer for season three just makes it even more difficult to prepare to say goodbye to FX’s Reservation Dogs. There’s so much story left to tell, but hopefully, the third and final season will give our favorite characters the sendoff they deserve.
Returning to lead the cast in starring roles are Devery Jacobs as Elora Danan, D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai as Bear Smallhill, Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack, and Lane Factor as Cheese. Created by executive producers Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, the final season of the half-hour comedy also features Zahn McClarnon, Gary Farmer, Wes Studi, Kaniehtiio Horn, Sarah Podemski, and Tamara Podemski.
The ensemble also includes Graham Greene, Dallas Goldtooth, Jon Proudstar, Lily Gladstone, Richard Ray Whitman, Kirk Fox, Jana Schmieding, Lil Mike, and FunnyBone.
The critically acclaimed, award-winning comedy will kick off season three with back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 exclusively on Hulu.
Reservation Dogs Season 3 Plot,...
Returning to lead the cast in starring roles are Devery Jacobs as Elora Danan, D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai as Bear Smallhill, Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack, and Lane Factor as Cheese. Created by executive producers Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, the final season of the half-hour comedy also features Zahn McClarnon, Gary Farmer, Wes Studi, Kaniehtiio Horn, Sarah Podemski, and Tamara Podemski.
The ensemble also includes Graham Greene, Dallas Goldtooth, Jon Proudstar, Lily Gladstone, Richard Ray Whitman, Kirk Fox, Jana Schmieding, Lil Mike, and FunnyBone.
The critically acclaimed, award-winning comedy will kick off season three with back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 exclusively on Hulu.
Reservation Dogs Season 3 Plot,...
- 7/6/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The Rez Dogs return home for a final confrontation of the soul. FX released the official Reservation Dogs Season 3 trailer on Thursday, teasing the last season of the hit show created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. The series focuses on Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs), Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), and Cheese (Lane Factor), four Indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma looking for purpose and opportunity in a world that’s often against them.
After spending two seasons gathering funds to travel to California in honor of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer), the crew accomplished their mission but needed clarification about their next steps. In the Reservation Dogs Season 3, the foursome returns home. Well, except for Bear, who breaks from the group to embark on a soul-searching journey alongside the spirit of a long-passed warrior (Dallas Goldtooth) and a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene). Meanwhile, Elora...
After spending two seasons gathering funds to travel to California in honor of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer), the crew accomplished their mission but needed clarification about their next steps. In the Reservation Dogs Season 3, the foursome returns home. Well, except for Bear, who breaks from the group to embark on a soul-searching journey alongside the spirit of a long-passed warrior (Dallas Goldtooth) and a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene). Meanwhile, Elora...
- 7/6/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Road trips, bathroom wisdom, revenge, healing and… Bigfoot?! The final season of Reservation Dogs promises all of that and more.
When Season 3 returns Wednesday, Aug. 2 on Hulu, the Rez Dogs find themselves stranded in Cali and have to figure out their way back home. “After making it back to Okern, Elora (Devery Jacobs) considers the idea of college, Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) comes across a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) grows more invested in healing her community and Cheese (Lane Factor), well, he still lives with his grandmother who’s not his grandmother,” reads the official description.
When Season 3 returns Wednesday, Aug. 2 on Hulu, the Rez Dogs find themselves stranded in Cali and have to figure out their way back home. “After making it back to Okern, Elora (Devery Jacobs) considers the idea of college, Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) comes across a conspiracy theorist named Maximus (Graham Greene), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) grows more invested in healing her community and Cheese (Lane Factor), well, he still lives with his grandmother who’s not his grandmother,” reads the official description.
- 7/6/2023
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
FX has released its first look at the final season of “Reservation Dogs.” Season 3’s trailer may mark the end of an era for Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s dry comedy, but based on the video, this last season also marks the start of something new for its central characters.
Since its premiere in 2021, “Reservation Dogs” has always been about the liminal space between childhood and adulthood. The series started with Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) forgoing his friends’ plan to ditch the reservation after his persistent Spirit (Dallas Goldtooth) persuaded him to improve his home rather than abandon it. This first trailer hints that the ending of that personal growth is right around the corner.
“The path to healing is often found in opportunities to help others,” Spirit cryptically tells Bear.
Last season ended with these friends stranded in California. Season 3 will pick up as they figure out a way back home.
Since its premiere in 2021, “Reservation Dogs” has always been about the liminal space between childhood and adulthood. The series started with Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai) forgoing his friends’ plan to ditch the reservation after his persistent Spirit (Dallas Goldtooth) persuaded him to improve his home rather than abandon it. This first trailer hints that the ending of that personal growth is right around the corner.
“The path to healing is often found in opportunities to help others,” Spirit cryptically tells Bear.
Last season ended with these friends stranded in California. Season 3 will pick up as they figure out a way back home.
- 7/6/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
The Rez Dogs are heading back home for their final hurrah. FX has released the official trailer for the third and final season of “Reservation Dogs,” the acclaimed FX on Hulu dramedy series.
Created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, with Harjo serving as the series showrunner, “Reservation Dogs” focuses on four teenagers — Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) — who were born and raised in a small Indigenous reservation in Oklahoma. The first two seasons of the show focused on the group’s quest to raise money to travel to California, a long-time dream of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer). The Season 2 finale saw the crew finally succeed in their goal, making it to the beaches of Los Angeles and saying an emotional goodbye to Daniel.
Their move proves to be temporary, however, as the trailer for Season 3 opens with the foursome traveling back home.
Created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, with Harjo serving as the series showrunner, “Reservation Dogs” focuses on four teenagers — Elora (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) — who were born and raised in a small Indigenous reservation in Oklahoma. The first two seasons of the show focused on the group’s quest to raise money to travel to California, a long-time dream of their dead friend, Daniel (Dalton Cramer). The Season 2 finale saw the crew finally succeed in their goal, making it to the beaches of Los Angeles and saying an emotional goodbye to Daniel.
Their move proves to be temporary, however, as the trailer for Season 3 opens with the foursome traveling back home.
- 7/6/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Poised for quite a major fall with Martin Scorsese’s stellar Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone also leads one of our most recommended films of the summer. Though it premiered at last year’s SXSW festival to strong acclaim, Music Box Films smartly waited until this summer to release The Unknown Country ahead of Scorsese’s epic a few months later. Ahead of a July 28 release, the first trailer and poster have now arrived for Morrisa Maltz’s debut feature.
Here’s the synopsis: “Reeling from a devastating loss, Tana (Lily Gladstone) is pulled back into the world by an unexpected invitation to her cousin’s wedding. She packs up her late grandmother’s Cadillac and hits the open road, driving from her home in Minnesota to South Dakota. After reconnecting with her Oglala Lakota family, Tana sets off to retrace a surreal journey that her grandmother took decades ago,...
Here’s the synopsis: “Reeling from a devastating loss, Tana (Lily Gladstone) is pulled back into the world by an unexpected invitation to her cousin’s wedding. She packs up her late grandmother’s Cadillac and hits the open road, driving from her home in Minnesota to South Dakota. After reconnecting with her Oglala Lakota family, Tana sets off to retrace a surreal journey that her grandmother took decades ago,...
- 6/16/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"So how long have you been driving?" "All my life..." Music Box Films has revealed an official trailer for an acclaimed indie drama titled The Unknown Country, made by a filmmaker named Morrisa Maltz. This premiered at last year's SXSW Film Festival, and also played at BAMcinemaFest + the Denver, Montclair, Santa Fe, and Calgary Film Fests. An unexpected invitation sends a grieving woman on a lonely road trip through the American Midwest towards the border between Texas & Mexico. A personal reverie summoned from a beguiling mix of fact & fiction, The Unknown Country is an "arresting" debut from Morrisa Maltz. Described as "a stunning spiritual companion to Terrence Malick and Nomadland." The indie film stars Lily Gladstone as Tana (who also stars in Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon this year), with Raymond Lee and Richard Ray Whitman. Well this looks wonderful. Not only stunning cinematography, following her through America's landscapes,...
- 6/15/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Independent filmmaker Steven Lewis Simpson takes on many roles in “Neither Wolf Nor Dog”: He simultaneously serves as a director, producer, cinematographer, editor and co-screenwriter, and for some films, having the director serve in many roles benefits the storytelling.
However, in this particular movie (which is based on co-screenwriter Kent Nerburn’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name), it would have behooved Simpson to consult others — not just regarding direction, editing and writing, but perhaps just to speak to someone else before taking on this particular narrative and creating yet another Native American story told through a white man’s lens that benefits absolutely no one.
Kent Nerburn receives a mysterious call from a Native American woman who says her grandfather requested she call him, and that Newburn needs to come meet with him. Although hesitant (and seemingly angry) about it, Kent drives more than 400 miles to meet with the elderly grandfather,...
However, in this particular movie (which is based on co-screenwriter Kent Nerburn’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name), it would have behooved Simpson to consult others — not just regarding direction, editing and writing, but perhaps just to speak to someone else before taking on this particular narrative and creating yet another Native American story told through a white man’s lens that benefits absolutely no one.
Kent Nerburn receives a mysterious call from a Native American woman who says her grandfather requested she call him, and that Newburn needs to come meet with him. Although hesitant (and seemingly angry) about it, Kent drives more than 400 miles to meet with the elderly grandfather,...
- 9/13/2019
- by Yolanda Machado
- The Wrap
There was a time when two veteran straight actors such as John Lithgow and Alfred Molina, taking on the roles of a gay couple and their subsequent travails at married life would have been the tabloid equivalent of shock and awe. It still might raise some eyebrows, but Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange is a testimony to societal progress in terms of storytelling. Now it will face the box office as the Specialty title platforms this weekend via Sony Classics. A real-life gay marriage takes the spotlight this weekend courtesy of Starz Digital doc To Be Takei about the multi-faceted actor/activist and social media talent who is best known for playing Hikaru Sulu in TV’s original Star Trek. It will be joined by Millennium Entertainment’s Are You Here with Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler which will open day and date by Mad Men writer Matthew Weiner.
- 8/22/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Wow. What a difference some misplaced storylines can make. "Favors" featured characters coming undone and it was so fun to watch.
Well, maybe not as fun as the throwaway scene with Peggy and the dying rat in her apartment, calling Stan to get the animal and using a booty call as bait... but enjoyable in a different way. I think that rat trap was a metaphor. Everybody was caught in one and blood was being shed.
The irony of Don telling Megan that Mitchell couldn't spend the rest of his life on the run was too much. He should have just given the poor kid the Richard Whitman treatment. Hell, he could have even given him his original name. Why not? Don doesn't use it any more. Instead he decided to take Pete's advice and dropped a bomb at the General Motor's dinner in the hope they might whip out...
Well, maybe not as fun as the throwaway scene with Peggy and the dying rat in her apartment, calling Stan to get the animal and using a booty call as bait... but enjoyable in a different way. I think that rat trap was a metaphor. Everybody was caught in one and blood was being shed.
The irony of Don telling Megan that Mitchell couldn't spend the rest of his life on the run was too much. He should have just given the poor kid the Richard Whitman treatment. Hell, he could have even given him his original name. Why not? Don doesn't use it any more. Instead he decided to take Pete's advice and dropped a bomb at the General Motor's dinner in the hope they might whip out...
- 6/10/2013
- by carissa@tvfanatic.com (Carissa Pavlica)
- TVfanatic
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Modern Times"
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Released by Criterion Collection
Granted, Warner Brothers released an extensive two-disc collection of arguably Charlie Chaplin's finest film back in 2003, but Criterion Collection is bringing the silent comedian to Blu-ray for the first time with a newly remastered edition of the Depression-era classic with an array of special features including the Dardenne brothers' 2003 tribute to the film, the 1916 two-reeler "The Rink," the Alistair Cooke home movie with Chaplin and Pauline Goddard, "All at Sea," two deleted sequences from the film, a new featurette on the film's special effects with Ben Burtt and Craig Barron and much more.
"Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition"
Directed by James Cameron
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
After a bare bones edition was released in April, James Cameron's box office world-beater receives a three-disc set with all the bells and...
"Modern Times"
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Released by Criterion Collection
Granted, Warner Brothers released an extensive two-disc collection of arguably Charlie Chaplin's finest film back in 2003, but Criterion Collection is bringing the silent comedian to Blu-ray for the first time with a newly remastered edition of the Depression-era classic with an array of special features including the Dardenne brothers' 2003 tribute to the film, the 1916 two-reeler "The Rink," the Alistair Cooke home movie with Chaplin and Pauline Goddard, "All at Sea," two deleted sequences from the film, a new featurette on the film's special effects with Ben Burtt and Craig Barron and much more.
"Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition"
Directed by James Cameron
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
After a bare bones edition was released in April, James Cameron's box office world-beater receives a three-disc set with all the bells and...
- 11/16/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Man Men returned to AMC for another season of dark humor, drama and sex appeal. The table has been set. Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Price has made a name for itself in the advertising world. Now, it’s time for Don Draper (Jon Hamm) to reap the fruits of his labor. Unfortunately, Richard Whitman, Draper’s real identity, has a difficult time filling the shoes of the advertising genius he has created – Don Draper. A botched interview with Jack Hammond of Advertising Age and a few misbegotten publicity stunts from Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) and Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) have set Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Price two steps backward. On the home front, Henry Francis (Christopher Stanley) has moved in with Betty (January Jones). Draper has not had such an easy time adapting. He’s gone back to prostitution as an outlet and is also engaging in touch of S&M, asking for some excessive slap action during sex.
- 8/1/2010
- by Alexis James-Whitehead
- BuzzFocus.com
The best show on television just started its fourth season. Were you watching? AMC’s Mad Men premiere picked up just where we left off at the end of last season. Well, not exactly. A year has passed, it’s now 1964 and the monumental changes that occurred last season, notably Don’s divorce from Betty and Sterling Cooper, have had time to mature.
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is no longer officing out of a suite at the Pierre Hotel, now they are located at The Time & Life Building on 6th Avenue. Parts of “Public Relations” felt a little too ________. There were too many winks, felt like a leer. The grand introduction to the 6th Avenue offices with a musical score straight out of 2003′s Down With Love was pushing it. A bit. The repeatedly vocalized Don Draper love caused me to question my own crush on the man character, after...
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is no longer officing out of a suite at the Pierre Hotel, now they are located at The Time & Life Building on 6th Avenue. Parts of “Public Relations” felt a little too ________. There were too many winks, felt like a leer. The grand introduction to the 6th Avenue offices with a musical score straight out of 2003′s Down With Love was pushing it. A bit. The repeatedly vocalized Don Draper love caused me to question my own crush on the man character, after...
- 7/26/2010
- by creth
- Atomic Popcorn
Season four of Mad Men will premiere on July 25 and we have three promos for you below. AMC has also released a summary of season 3, which we have for you below, in case you need to catch up.
It’s early 1963. Lane Pryce, the financial officer installed by Sterling Cooper’s British parent Puttnam, Powell, and Lowe, demoralizes the staff with mass layoffs and pits Ken and Pete against each other as co-heads of account services. Calling Don Draper "the face of our business," Lane sends him and Sal to Baltimore to mollify client London Fog. There, Don witnesses Sal in a compromising situation with a male bellhop.
Back in New York, client Pepsi requests a sexy riff on the musical Bye Bye Birdie for a television commercial for their new diet cola, Patio. Peggy questions whether this approach will appeal to female consumers, though she later imitates the routine herself.
It’s early 1963. Lane Pryce, the financial officer installed by Sterling Cooper’s British parent Puttnam, Powell, and Lowe, demoralizes the staff with mass layoffs and pits Ken and Pete against each other as co-heads of account services. Calling Don Draper "the face of our business," Lane sends him and Sal to Baltimore to mollify client London Fog. There, Don witnesses Sal in a compromising situation with a male bellhop.
Back in New York, client Pepsi requests a sexy riff on the musical Bye Bye Birdie for a television commercial for their new diet cola, Patio. Peggy questions whether this approach will appeal to female consumers, though she later imitates the routine herself.
- 6/15/2010
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
- [Ioncinema.com is proud to feature a select group of new and veteran voices as the ones that are showcased and nurtured at the 25th edition of the Sundance Film Festival. This is part of collection of emailer interviews conducted prior to the festival - I would like to thank the filmmakers for their time and the hardworking publicists for making this possible.] Sterlin Harjo Eric Lavallee: Can you discuss the genesis of Barking Water – how did the initial idea come about or how did this become a story you wanted to tell? Sterlin Harjo: The film is about an older couple that have been in a 40 year off and on relationship. The woman, Irene (Played by Casey Camp-Horinek) comes back to Frankie (Richard Ray Whitman) one last time, as Frankie lies on his deathbed, to break him from the hospital and get him home before he dies. I had had this idea for a while to make a film about a person that doesn't want to die in the hospital. Almost as if this place that is supposed to help you really makes things worse. Then my Grandmother got real sick and I rode with her in the ambulance to the hospital... we all thought she was going to die.
- 1/15/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
First off, the best news, as I predicted (in private) Duncan Jones' Moon will be premiering, yay! The comedy Adventureland starring the talented Bill Hader is playing. The sweet kid soldier film Johnny Mad Dog is playing in the spectrum section, and the Jesco White story White Lightnin' which we reported on earlier is in the Park City at Midnight section.
But where the hell is Stingray Sam?
Full list after the break.
Premieres
* "Adventureland," directed and written by Greg Mottola, stars Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds and Bill Hader in the story of a college grad who gets a job at an amusement park. A Miramax release.
* "Brooklyn’s Finest," directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Michael C. Martin, a drama about three Brooklyn cops who come together at the same deadly location. With Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle and Ellen Barkin.
* "Earth Days," directed by Robert Stone,...
But where the hell is Stingray Sam?
Full list after the break.
Premieres
* "Adventureland," directed and written by Greg Mottola, stars Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds and Bill Hader in the story of a college grad who gets a job at an amusement park. A Miramax release.
* "Brooklyn’s Finest," directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Michael C. Martin, a drama about three Brooklyn cops who come together at the same deadly location. With Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle and Ellen Barkin.
* "Earth Days," directed by Robert Stone,...
- 12/4/2008
- QuietEarth.us
Premieres
To showcase the diversity of contemporary independent cinema, this section offers the latest work from American and international directors and world premieres of highly anticipated films.
Adventureland / U.S. (Director-screenwriter: Greg Mottola)
In 1987, a recent college graduate takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park and discovers the job is perfect preparation for the real world. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader. World premiere
Brooklyn's Finest / U.S. (Director: Antoine Fuqua; screenwriter: Michael C. Martin)
After enduring vastly different career paths, three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location. Cast: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle, Ellen Barkin. World premiere
Earth Days / U.S. (Director: Robert Stone)
The history of our environmental undoing through the eyes of nine Americans whose work and actions launched the modern environmental movement. World premiere, closing-night film
Endgame / U.K. (Director: Pete Travis; screenwriter: Paula Milne)
A...
To showcase the diversity of contemporary independent cinema, this section offers the latest work from American and international directors and world premieres of highly anticipated films.
Adventureland / U.S. (Director-screenwriter: Greg Mottola)
In 1987, a recent college graduate takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park and discovers the job is perfect preparation for the real world. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader. World premiere
Brooklyn's Finest / U.S. (Director: Antoine Fuqua; screenwriter: Michael C. Martin)
After enduring vastly different career paths, three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location. Cast: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle, Ellen Barkin. World premiere
Earth Days / U.S. (Director: Robert Stone)
The history of our environmental undoing through the eyes of nine Americans whose work and actions launched the modern environmental movement. World premiere, closing-night film
Endgame / U.K. (Director: Pete Travis; screenwriter: Paula Milne)
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- 12/4/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Because the Dramatic Main Competition category can only hold so many titles, the Spectrum becomes a second option for Sundance staff to include so more dramatic fair. 12 of the 16 selected are world premieres (I caught Johnny Mad Dog at Cannes and missed out on Lymelife at Tiff) from returnee directors such as Sterlin Harjo, Jeff Lipsky and Bobcat Goldthwait. Dramatic films screening in Spectrum are: Against the Current / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Peter Callahan)—Facing the anniversary of his pregnant wife's tragic death, thirty-five-year old Paul Thompson enlists the help of two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River. Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Reaser, Mary Tyler Moore, Michelle Trachtenberg. World Premiere The Anarchist's Wife (La Mujer del Anarquista) / Germany/Spain (Directors: Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr; Screenwriters: Marie Noelle and Ray Loriga)—During the Spanish Civil War an idealistic young lawyer combating Franco's
- 12/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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