The Aclu of Southern California, Snap, Sia, Bishop Accountability and the Los Angeles Lgbt Center hosted a special screening of Spotlight last night. Oscar nominated screenwriter Josh Singer moderated the...
- 2/12/2016
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
Despite expensive anomalies like The Matrix and Inception, which found huge audiences for densely scripted plotlines, studios still regularly hand Michael Bay the annual Gdp of French Guiana.
Science fiction is hard, but making fart jokes with giant robots is easy. It's the corporate equivalent of having Eggos for dinner. Altered States of Plaine, like indies Pi and Primer, harbors ambition that towers over its super-saver discount budget.
Director Nick Gaglia hides the actual rough edges of the production with the artistic rough edges of handheld cameras, slow shutter speeds, and tight, low-angle close-ups that favor his charismatic actors. The transition between the blue-grays of the city and the saturated yellows of the desert are...
Science fiction is hard, but making fart jokes with giant robots is easy. It's the corporate equivalent of having Eggos for dinner. Altered States of Plaine, like indies Pi and Primer, harbors ambition that towers over its super-saver discount budget.
Director Nick Gaglia hides the actual rough edges of the production with the artistic rough edges of handheld cameras, slow shutter speeds, and tight, low-angle close-ups that favor his charismatic actors. The transition between the blue-grays of the city and the saturated yellows of the desert are...
- 4/30/2014
- Village Voice
We love reporting stories like these about indie features that find success. Read on for the details of what's coming up for Nick Gaglia's Altered States of Plaine.
Nick dropped us a line yesterday with the following update on his film: Since its world premiere in Brazil last May, Altered States of Plaine (or rather Estados Alterados de Plaine) has taken Latin America by storm! After playing at Fantaspoa - International Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil, Macabro Film Festival in Mexico, Buenos Aires Rojos Sangre Film Festival in Argentina, Post Mortem Film Festival in Mexico, and Montevideo Fantastico Film Festival in Uruguay (where it won a screenwriting award), the indie feature has been picked up by Turner Broadcasting and will be making it television debut starting this summer all over Latin America.
Filmmaker Gaglia (visit his official site here) was approached by a Turner exec in Porte Alegre, Brazil,...
Nick dropped us a line yesterday with the following update on his film: Since its world premiere in Brazil last May, Altered States of Plaine (or rather Estados Alterados de Plaine) has taken Latin America by storm! After playing at Fantaspoa - International Fantastic Film Festival in Brazil, Macabro Film Festival in Mexico, Buenos Aires Rojos Sangre Film Festival in Argentina, Post Mortem Film Festival in Mexico, and Montevideo Fantastico Film Festival in Uruguay (where it won a screenwriting award), the indie feature has been picked up by Turner Broadcasting and will be making it television debut starting this summer all over Latin America.
Filmmaker Gaglia (visit his official site here) was approached by a Turner exec in Porte Alegre, Brazil,...
- 1/10/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
If the horror offerings that came out before Halloween didn't live up to your expectations, then take note that The Bay (review) hits VOD and limited theatres staring today, November 2nd, and in honor of the occasion we had a chance to speak with one of the film's stars, Kether Donohue.
In our chat Kether shared her experiences working with the film's iconic director, Barry Levinson; told us how her part in The Bay was a real "dream come true"; talked about the found footage sub-genre as a whole; and lots more. Read on for the highlights!
When did you film The Bay? Am I correct in thinking it was completed some time ago but is only just now finally getting released?
Kether Donohue: Yes! It feels like just yesterday, but I filmed The Bay in September and October of 2010.
How did you first come on board the project?...
In our chat Kether shared her experiences working with the film's iconic director, Barry Levinson; told us how her part in The Bay was a real "dream come true"; talked about the found footage sub-genre as a whole; and lots more. Read on for the highlights!
When did you film The Bay? Am I correct in thinking it was completed some time ago but is only just now finally getting released?
Kether Donohue: Yes! It feels like just yesterday, but I filmed The Bay in September and October of 2010.
How did you first come on board the project?...
- 11/3/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
By MoreHorror.com
Starting next week, on May 4th through May, 20th, Porto Alegre will be the Latin American Capital of Genre Cinema as Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 unleashes.
Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, the biggest genre film festival of Latin America will be back for its 8th edition, with 17 days of pure cinephilia, exhibiting 150 films – including 87 features from 32 countries: 5 having their world première, 12 in national première and 43 in their Latin America première. The festival will also bring more than 35 guests, including the duo that will be getting a Career Achievement Award: David Schmoeller and Stuart Gordon. Schmoeller, in the occasion, will also have the première of his first feature in 14 years: “Little Monsters”.
The festival will open and close with two world premières: “Nervo Craniano Zero”, directed by Paulo Biscaia Filho will open the festival and “Cell Count”, directed by Todd E. Freeman will close it.
Starting next week, on May 4th through May, 20th, Porto Alegre will be the Latin American Capital of Genre Cinema as Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival 2012 unleashes.
Fantaspoa – International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre, the biggest genre film festival of Latin America will be back for its 8th edition, with 17 days of pure cinephilia, exhibiting 150 films – including 87 features from 32 countries: 5 having their world première, 12 in national première and 43 in their Latin America première. The festival will also bring more than 35 guests, including the duo that will be getting a Career Achievement Award: David Schmoeller and Stuart Gordon. Schmoeller, in the occasion, will also have the première of his first feature in 14 years: “Little Monsters”.
The festival will open and close with two world premières: “Nervo Craniano Zero”, directed by Paulo Biscaia Filho will open the festival and “Cell Count”, directed by Todd E. Freeman will close it.
- 5/1/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
It's been a year since last we heard anything about Nick Gaglia's Altered States of Plaine, but he got in touch this week to provide us with a new exclusive clip and also let us know when and where the sci-fi tinged thriller will be having its world premiere.
Altered States of Plaine will have its debut in May at the 2012 Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, the biggest genre film festival in Latin America, attracting over 7,000 viewers each year.
"It's an honour for Fantaspoa to hold the world premiere of Altered States of Plaine, the new film by Nick Gaglia. Instead of complaining about budget limitation to create this sci-fi film, Nick (who also co-wrote and co-produced) assembled an amazingly talented team that clearly have put their hearts into the project. In a film industry scenario where much has been done and we see a lot of sequels, remakes,...
Altered States of Plaine will have its debut in May at the 2012 Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, the biggest genre film festival in Latin America, attracting over 7,000 viewers each year.
"It's an honour for Fantaspoa to hold the world premiere of Altered States of Plaine, the new film by Nick Gaglia. Instead of complaining about budget limitation to create this sci-fi film, Nick (who also co-wrote and co-produced) assembled an amazingly talented team that clearly have put their hearts into the project. In a film industry scenario where much has been done and we see a lot of sequels, remakes,...
- 3/15/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Continuing our tradition of bringing you as much news as we can from the indie scene, today we have the trailer, a clip, a few stills, and the synopsis from Altered States of Plaine, a sci-fi tinged thriller in its final stages of post-production.
Synopsis:
Emanuel Plaine, a young man on the run from a mysterious government agency, is desperate to find a cure for a condition that causes him to wake up at random places around the world when he falls asleep.
The film stars George Gallagher as Plaine and Kether Donohue (The Bay) and is directed by Nick Gaglia (official site here), whose crew includes sound designer Anthony Milch (Tron, Superman, Batman: Forever), Grammy-nominated musician Jon St. James (Return of the Living Dead), and digital intermediate colorist Tom Rovak (a frequent collaborator with A-list directors like Tony and Ridley Scott).
For more visit the Altered States of Plaine Facebook page,...
Synopsis:
Emanuel Plaine, a young man on the run from a mysterious government agency, is desperate to find a cure for a condition that causes him to wake up at random places around the world when he falls asleep.
The film stars George Gallagher as Plaine and Kether Donohue (The Bay) and is directed by Nick Gaglia (official site here), whose crew includes sound designer Anthony Milch (Tron, Superman, Batman: Forever), Grammy-nominated musician Jon St. James (Return of the Living Dead), and digital intermediate colorist Tom Rovak (a frequent collaborator with A-list directors like Tony and Ridley Scott).
For more visit the Altered States of Plaine Facebook page,...
- 2/1/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
"Dogtooth" (2009)
Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos
Released by Kino
"Enter the Void" (2010)
Directed by Gaspar Noé
Released by Mpi Home Video
Somehow it's fitting that two of last year's most dangerous films will be hitting DVD shelves the same week, both being favorites of the IFC.com staff. "Dogtooth," Lanthimos' much-debated Un Certain Regard winner from Cannes, concerns the lives of three culturally isolated children -- two daughters and a son, who range from mid-teens to early 20s -- fenced in by their parents' country home, who receive a reeducation when their lone connection to the outside world, a female security guard for their parents' business, introduces them to the joys of sex and Sylvester Stallone films. Meanwhile, "Irreversible" provocateur Noé's latest is a wildly ambitious 155-minute extravaganza set inside the mind of a drug dealer told from the first-person perspective. Nathaniel Brown and "Boardwalk Empire" star Paz de la Huerta...
Directed by Giorgos Lanthimos
Released by Kino
"Enter the Void" (2010)
Directed by Gaspar Noé
Released by Mpi Home Video
Somehow it's fitting that two of last year's most dangerous films will be hitting DVD shelves the same week, both being favorites of the IFC.com staff. "Dogtooth," Lanthimos' much-debated Un Certain Regard winner from Cannes, concerns the lives of three culturally isolated children -- two daughters and a son, who range from mid-teens to early 20s -- fenced in by their parents' country home, who receive a reeducation when their lone connection to the outside world, a female security guard for their parents' business, introduces them to the joys of sex and Sylvester Stallone films. Meanwhile, "Irreversible" provocateur Noé's latest is a wildly ambitious 155-minute extravaganza set inside the mind of a drug dealer told from the first-person perspective. Nathaniel Brown and "Boardwalk Empire" star Paz de la Huerta...
- 1/24/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Seventh Art Releasing
NEW YORK -- Filmmaker Nick Gaglia has based this debut feature on his own hellish experiences in a New Jersey rehab center that subsequently was shut down by the authorities. But while one can readily sympathize with what he must have gone through, it's not enough to excuse "Over the GW", which he wrote, directed, edited and photographed. As has been proved so many times before, good intentions don't excuse amateurish execution. The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater in New York.
George Gallagher plays the role of the filmmaker's alter ego Tony Serra, a troubled Bronx teen who is shuttled off to a rehab center in Jersey (the title refers to the George Washington Bridge) by his concerned parents because of his drug and alcohol dependencies. His sister (Kether Donohue) is soon consigned to the same fate.
But what was supposed to be a 30-day stay stretches into 2 1/2 years. The siblings are subjected to brutal treatment at the hands of the center's clearly psychotic director (Albert Insinnia) and his cultlike employees, who deliver physical and emotional abuse in a variety of ways that the film depicts in harrowing fashion.
Unfortunately, the innate power of the story is dampened by a mainly incoherent script, lackluster direction, annoying cinematography that alternates between black-and-white and garish color and ineffective performances. Running a mere 76 minutes, the film seems to depict its characters' incarceration in all-too-real time.
NEW YORK -- Filmmaker Nick Gaglia has based this debut feature on his own hellish experiences in a New Jersey rehab center that subsequently was shut down by the authorities. But while one can readily sympathize with what he must have gone through, it's not enough to excuse "Over the GW", which he wrote, directed, edited and photographed. As has been proved so many times before, good intentions don't excuse amateurish execution. The film recently received its U.S. theatrical premiere at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater in New York.
George Gallagher plays the role of the filmmaker's alter ego Tony Serra, a troubled Bronx teen who is shuttled off to a rehab center in Jersey (the title refers to the George Washington Bridge) by his concerned parents because of his drug and alcohol dependencies. His sister (Kether Donohue) is soon consigned to the same fate.
But what was supposed to be a 30-day stay stretches into 2 1/2 years. The siblings are subjected to brutal treatment at the hands of the center's clearly psychotic director (Albert Insinnia) and his cultlike employees, who deliver physical and emotional abuse in a variety of ways that the film depicts in harrowing fashion.
Unfortunately, the innate power of the story is dampened by a mainly incoherent script, lackluster direction, annoying cinematography that alternates between black-and-white and garish color and ineffective performances. Running a mere 76 minutes, the film seems to depict its characters' incarceration in all-too-real time.
- 7/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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