Press Releases Archive for October, 2015

America pays tribute to Sylvie and Maurice Pialat

Two events will soon shine the spotlight on Maurice Pialat in the USA and inCanada : a retrospective held at the MOMI (Museum of the Moving Image) in New York from October 16 through November 1, 2015; and “Love Exists: The Films of Maurice Pialat” at the TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto fromOctober 22 through December 5, held in the presence…

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Ziggy Kozlowski Receives 2015 Polish Film Festival in America Golden Ciupaga Award

I can hardly imagine more hardworking and humble behind-the-stage PR professional than Ziggy Kozlowski who makes such a colossal difference in introducing foreign language films, including the ones made by Polish directors. His enthusiasm and expertise are simply priceless… Christopher Kamyszew PFFA Founder & Society for Arts/Society Films CEO Ziggy Kozlowski is a partner at…

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Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage And Paul Schrader Get Down To DOG EAT DOG

Edgy Contemporary Crime-Thriller Directed by Paul Schrader.

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FSLC Pairs Lynch And Rivette For Dual Retrospective

THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES DETAILS FOR LYNCH/RIVETTE, DECEMBER 11-22 Dual retrospective pairs seven Lynch and seven Rivette films, including Rivette’s rarely screened Duelle with Lynch’s Lost Highway, L’amour fou with Wild at Heart, and more New York, NY (October 28, 2015) – The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the details…

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Par Picks Michael Mann’s Ferrari Pic After Finance Found, Partially From China

Par Picks Michael Mann’s Ferrari Pic After Finance Found from Vendian Entertainment And China’s Yoozoo Bliss.

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Academy Shortlists 10 Doc Shorts

The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order

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Yet-To-Be-Named Quinn-Janego-League Label Releases Michael Moore Pic December 23

via their new, clandestine and as-yet-unnamed distribution label.

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124 Documentary Features Submitted To Oscar 87

The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are…

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TRIBECA AND CHANEL ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF THROUGH HER LENS: THE TRIBECA CHANEL WOMEN’S FILMMAKER PROGRAM TO SUPPORT EMERGING WOMEN WRITERS AND DIRECTORS

*** Inaugural three-day workshop in collaboration with Pulse Films and supported by Tribeca Film Institute® will provide seven female filmmakers with project support, master classes and mentorship, and award $75,000 for project development *** Leadership committee includes Julianne Moore, Catherine Hardwicke, Rebecca Miller, and Donna Gigliotti, among others New York, NY [October 22, 2015] –…

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Chris Rock To Host Oscar 77

“Multi-hyphenate artist and filmmaker Chris Rock will return to host the Oscars for a second time.”

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Academy Lingos 81 Foreign Language Film Entrants

And the 2015 submissions are…

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Shirley Temple Black Family Gifts Academy Museum $5 Million In Money And Artifacts

“Her gift to the Academy Museum ensures her work will continue to inspire future generations of film lovers.”

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“The Black White Love Play (The Story Of Chaz & Roger Ebert)” Debuts In Chicago

PRESS RELEASE RogerEbert.com announces the premiere of THE BLACK WHITE LOVE PLAY (The Story of Chaz & Roger Ebert)   Conceived and produced by Jackie Taylor, founder, CEO of The Black Ensemble Theater September 26 – November 15, 2015   CHICAGO, October 2, 2015 – As film critic Roger Ebert told it, he was smitten with…

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon