Legendary film exhibitor/producer Ben Barenholtz is widely credited with popularizing the midnight movie concept with his screenings of such cult films as El Topo and Eraserhead at his long-gone Elgin Theater. He’s also produced such films as the Coen brothers’ Miller’s Crossing and Barton Fink. Now, at the age of 82, Barenholt makes his feature film directorial debut with Alina, the sort of micro-budgeted independent feature he might have programmed decades ago. Unfortunately, that same dated feel permeates this earnest effort about a young Russian woman trying to find her father in New York City.
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- 9/15/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Back in April, producer Ben Barenholtz announced that he would be making his feature film directorial debut with “Alina.” Now, the 80-year-old legend has completed principal photography on the movie and has created a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the project’s post-production.
“Alina,” also written by Barenholtz, stars award-winning actress Darya Ekamasova as a Russian woman who goes to New York in search of the father she never met.
“Principal photography has been completed with a fantastic cast and crew,” says the helmer on the Kickstarter page. “I am now in the editing process and I think I have a good film but I won’t know how good it is until we finish post-production. And I need your help to do that.”
Read More: Producer Ben Barenholtz to Make Directing Debut at Age 80 (Exclusive)
At the time of this publication, Barenholtz’s campaign has raised over $24,000 of its $80,000 goal.
“Alina,” also written by Barenholtz, stars award-winning actress Darya Ekamasova as a Russian woman who goes to New York in search of the father she never met.
“Principal photography has been completed with a fantastic cast and crew,” says the helmer on the Kickstarter page. “I am now in the editing process and I think I have a good film but I won’t know how good it is until we finish post-production. And I need your help to do that.”
Read More: Producer Ben Barenholtz to Make Directing Debut at Age 80 (Exclusive)
At the time of this publication, Barenholtz’s campaign has raised over $24,000 of its $80,000 goal.
- 7/5/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Never underestimate Ben Barenholtz. It's normal for accomplished people towards the end of their careers to accept achievement awards, and New York exhibitor-turned-distributor-turned-producer Barenholtz is no exception. He took home recent tribute awards from the Hamptons International Film festival as well as Berlin, where his old friends the Coen Brothers presented him with the Berlinale Kamera Award. But it is rare indeed for anyone to make their debut as a film director at the age of 80. After his Berlin moment, Barenholtz wanted to celebrate that birthday by making a radical move. "I decided that I was going to do the one thing that I never did in film," he told me. "Direct a fiction feature." On April 25, the producer-writer-director will start principal photography on drama "Alina," based on his original script. The ultra-low-budget New York film will be financed by Barenholtz, with help from friends he has helped in the past,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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