‘Beyond The Visible: Hilma Af Klint’ and ‘Raise Hell: The Life And Times Of Molly Ivins’ are set for release in October.
Eve Gabereau’s Modern Films has secured UK and Ireland rights to documentaries Beyond The Visible: Hilma Af Klint and Raise Hell: The Life And Times Of Molly Ivins, and plans to release both this autumn.
The agreement for Beyond The Visible was closed with German sales agency Mindjazz Pictures and Modern Films is set to release the film on October 9 to coincide with international art event the Frieze Art Fair.
Marking the feature debut of director Halina Dyrschka,...
Eve Gabereau’s Modern Films has secured UK and Ireland rights to documentaries Beyond The Visible: Hilma Af Klint and Raise Hell: The Life And Times Of Molly Ivins, and plans to release both this autumn.
The agreement for Beyond The Visible was closed with German sales agency Mindjazz Pictures and Modern Films is set to release the film on October 9 to coincide with international art event the Frieze Art Fair.
Marking the feature debut of director Halina Dyrschka,...
- 8/7/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Before we get to our weekly streaming picks, check out our annual feature: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2019.
3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
3 Faces is the fourth film Jafar Panahi has made in defiance of a 20-year filmmaking ban the Iranian government issued against him in 2010. The first three were all small-scale affairs, shot solo or with tiny crews, in which the camera never left the confines of a given space – Panahi’s apartment building in This Is Not a Film (2011), a holiday house in Closed Curtain (2013), and a taxi in Taxi (2015). His newest, which sees him working with a larger team, is almost...
Before we get to our weekly streaming picks, check out our annual feature: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2019.
3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
3 Faces is the fourth film Jafar Panahi has made in defiance of a 20-year filmmaking ban the Iranian government issued against him in 2010. The first three were all small-scale affairs, shot solo or with tiny crews, in which the camera never left the confines of a given space – Panahi’s apartment building in This Is Not a Film (2011), a holiday house in Closed Curtain (2013), and a taxi in Taxi (2015). His newest, which sees him working with a larger team, is almost...
- 1/3/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For fans of the late legendary journalist Molly Ivins, one of the many things to lament about her passing is that she didn’t live to see the Trump presidency.
The Lone Star State native would have carved up Trump like a Texas T-bone, in the opinion of one expert in all things Ivins.
“She’d be dining out on him for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” asserts Janice Engel, director of the documentary Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. “Oh my god, it would be a feast!”
In a career of more than 30 years as a reporter and columnist, Ivins displayed a particular gift for skewering politicians, especially those from her home state. She wrote of one House Republican from Texas, “If his Iq slips any lower we’ll have to water him twice a day.” And it was she who dubbed George W. Bush “Shrub,” warning...
The Lone Star State native would have carved up Trump like a Texas T-bone, in the opinion of one expert in all things Ivins.
“She’d be dining out on him for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” asserts Janice Engel, director of the documentary Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. “Oh my god, it would be a feast!”
In a career of more than 30 years as a reporter and columnist, Ivins displayed a particular gift for skewering politicians, especially those from her home state. She wrote of one House Republican from Texas, “If his Iq slips any lower we’ll have to water him twice a day.” And it was she who dubbed George W. Bush “Shrub,” warning...
- 11/1/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Last week I extolled the pleasures of a new documentary feature focused on a very talented singer, Ms. Linda Ronstadt. And this weekend sees the release of another “entertainment personality” doc. Now, it’s not another singer or musician this time. No, it’s not an actress or actor. And it’s not a painter or a comedian (even her detractors would have to admit that she was very witty). As you’ve no doubt concluded, this film is all about a writer, not of plays or books, rather she toiled away in the “fourth estate”, newspapers. Yes twenty-somethings, just decade or two ago, folks got their news on folded paper, not this monitor screen or on an app. Some of the writers of columns (usually in the editorial section) became stars, with papers fighting over their services (this happened with comic strip creators in their heyday) and promoting them...
- 9/19/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Molly Ivins, the consistently acerbic and witty liberal journalist whose writings and interviews have continued to influence myriad journalists and political pundits has been given the documentary treatment with Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins. An official selection of Sundance, the film traces her early roots writing for the Texas Observer to writing for The New York Times and The Washington Post while staying true to her southern heritage, all while keeping her liberal convictions intact regardless of criticism or attacks on her person.
Ahead of a release starting in NYC on September 6, the film will have a special one-night screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in South Lamar, Austin TX on August 28, to be followed by a panel discussion with the director Janice Engel, Richard Linklater, Jim Hightower, and Emily Ramshaw. The panel will be livestreamed to Drafthouse locations across Texas that same night and full runs...
Ahead of a release starting in NYC on September 6, the film will have a special one-night screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in South Lamar, Austin TX on August 28, to be followed by a panel discussion with the director Janice Engel, Richard Linklater, Jim Hightower, and Emily Ramshaw. The panel will be livestreamed to Drafthouse locations across Texas that same night and full runs...
- 8/12/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Out of all the journalists, none have been as witty as one Molly Ivins. The story of one of America’s most outspoken and humorous journalists has been brought to the screen in “Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins.”
Read More: ‘Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins’ Commemorates A Razor Sharp Wit [Sundance Review]
Director and co-writer Janice Engel (“Ted Hawkins: Amazing Grace” and “Addicted” gives audiences a documentary based on the life of the former Texan columnist, who sadly passed away in 2007 at the age of 62 from cancer.
Continue reading ‘Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins’ Trailer: Janice Engel’s Biography Of An Outspoken Political Columnist at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins’ Commemorates A Razor Sharp Wit [Sundance Review]
Director and co-writer Janice Engel (“Ted Hawkins: Amazing Grace” and “Addicted” gives audiences a documentary based on the life of the former Texan columnist, who sadly passed away in 2007 at the age of 62 from cancer.
Continue reading ‘Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins’ Trailer: Janice Engel’s Biography Of An Outspoken Political Columnist at The Playlist.
- 8/8/2019
- by Harry Frazer
- The Playlist
The most successful political commentators are often those whose personalities and opinions are larger than life. The late Molly Ivins was one such legendary columnist-humorist who was just as bold and towering as her home state of Texas, as she often offered her fearless observations and critiques on such decisive topics as government and religion. […]
The post SXSW 2019 Interview: Janice Engel Talks Raise Hell (Exclusive) appeared first on Shockya.com.
The post SXSW 2019 Interview: Janice Engel Talks Raise Hell (Exclusive) appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 8/1/2019
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
The AFI Docs Festival has selected the Steven Bognar-Julia Reichert documentary “American Factory” as its centerpiece film, screening on June 21.
The event will take place at the Warner Bros. Theater at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
“American Factory” centers on the aftermath of the 2014 purchase of a General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio, which had closed in 2008. A Chinese billionaire reopened the facility as Fuyao Glass America, with the promise of giving work to more than 2,000 local residents, along with bringing hundreds of Chinese workers to Ohio. Tensions mount among the Americans due to low wages and concerns about safety.
The festival revealed its full slate of films Wednesday for the 2019 edition, the 17th year, with 72 films representing 17 countries. The festival runs June 19–23 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, Md.
As previously announced, the festival will open with the world premiere of...
The event will take place at the Warner Bros. Theater at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
“American Factory” centers on the aftermath of the 2014 purchase of a General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio, which had closed in 2008. A Chinese billionaire reopened the facility as Fuyao Glass America, with the promise of giving work to more than 2,000 local residents, along with bringing hundreds of Chinese workers to Ohio. Tensions mount among the Americans due to low wages and concerns about safety.
The festival revealed its full slate of films Wednesday for the 2019 edition, the 17th year, with 72 films representing 17 countries. The festival runs June 19–23 in Washington, DC, and Silver Spring, Md.
As previously announced, the festival will open with the world premiere of...
- 5/15/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
AFI Docs has raised the curtain on its 2019 slate — 68% of which are films produced by women and nearly half that feature a female helmer. The lineup features 72 documentaries from 17 countries, including six world premieres.
The films will unspool from June 19-23 in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, MD. See the full program for the fest below.
This year’s Centerpiece film will be American Factory, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, which examines the culture clash resulting from the takeover of a Dayton, Oh, factory by a Chinese company. It will screen on Friday, June 21.
“Each year, the AFI Docs slate includes a variety of films exploring topical issues, intriguing personalities and compelling voices,” said Michael Lumpkin, Director of AFI Festivals. “This year’s festival offers audiences a chance to discover new perspectives on familiar topics and unique stories they may be hearing for the first time — demonstrating...
The films will unspool from June 19-23 in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, MD. See the full program for the fest below.
This year’s Centerpiece film will be American Factory, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, which examines the culture clash resulting from the takeover of a Dayton, Oh, factory by a Chinese company. It will screen on Friday, June 21.
“Each year, the AFI Docs slate includes a variety of films exploring topical issues, intriguing personalities and compelling voices,” said Michael Lumpkin, Director of AFI Festivals. “This year’s festival offers audiences a chance to discover new perspectives on familiar topics and unique stories they may be hearing for the first time — demonstrating...
- 5/15/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the more entertaining as well as insightful political commentators of the past half-century is paid a suitably entertaining tribute in “Raise Hell.” A long tall Texan too amusingly outrageous to draw real resentment from most of her targets, Molly Ivins nonetheless aimed stinging criticism at political figures both national and in her native state, where her liberal stance would’ve been controversial no matter how it was articulated. The late journalist’s career and witticisms are smoothly encapsulated by veteran documentarian Janice Engel’s slick feature, which seems a natural for broadcast, streaming platforms and possible limited theatrical release.
Raised in Houston’s toniest district of River Oaks, Ivins spent childhood “up a tree reading books.” When she came down, she was a six-foot 12-year-old whose mother considered her the “smart one,” her sister the “pretty one” — with the result that Molly thought herself ugly, and sister Sara...
Raised in Houston’s toniest district of River Oaks, Ivins spent childhood “up a tree reading books.” When she came down, she was a six-foot 12-year-old whose mother considered her the “smart one,” her sister the “pretty one” — with the result that Molly thought herself ugly, and sister Sara...
- 4/23/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Beto O’Rourke was a winner at South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas, or at least the film chronicling his campaign to unseat Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate, “Running With Beto,” was, as it took home the Audience Award for Documentary Spotlight Saturday.
The audience favorite Narrative Spotlight section went to “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” starring Shia Labeouf, Jon Bernthal, Dakota Johnson and Bruce Dern. The film is about a young man with Down syndrome (Zack Gottsagen) who runs away from a nursing home to become a professional wrestler.
Also Read: Jimmy Fallon Debuts His Really, Really Excitable Beto O'Rourke Impression (Video)
Headliners and 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award winners will be announced on Monday, March 19.
Here’s a complete list of Saturday’s winners:
Narrative Feature Competition
“Saint Frances ”
Director: Alex Thompson
Documentary Feature Competition
“For Sama ”
Directors: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Narrative Spotlight
“The...
The audience favorite Narrative Spotlight section went to “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” starring Shia Labeouf, Jon Bernthal, Dakota Johnson and Bruce Dern. The film is about a young man with Down syndrome (Zack Gottsagen) who runs away from a nursing home to become a professional wrestler.
Also Read: Jimmy Fallon Debuts His Really, Really Excitable Beto O'Rourke Impression (Video)
Headliners and 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award winners will be announced on Monday, March 19.
Here’s a complete list of Saturday’s winners:
Narrative Feature Competition
“Saint Frances ”
Director: Alex Thompson
Documentary Feature Competition
“For Sama ”
Directors: Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Narrative Spotlight
“The...
- 3/16/2019
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
As SXSW comes to a close, the Austin-based festival unveiled the audience winners from this year’s film festival which includes the Shia Labeouf-fronted drama The Peanut Butter Falcon as well as David Modigliano’s documentary Running With Beto.
The winners for the Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Midnighters, Episodic Premieres, Global, Festival Favorites, Design Award, and Virtual Cinema Jury Award categories were announced Saturday morning.
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon took the Audience Award for Narrative Spotlight. Featuring an all-star cast including Labeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Thomas Haden Church, John Bertnthal and some professional wrestlers you might recognize as well as breakout star Zack Gottsagen, the film follows a young man with Down syndrome runs away from the retirement home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. The crowd...
The winners for the Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Midnighters, Episodic Premieres, Global, Festival Favorites, Design Award, and Virtual Cinema Jury Award categories were announced Saturday morning.
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon took the Audience Award for Narrative Spotlight. Featuring an all-star cast including Labeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Thomas Haden Church, John Bertnthal and some professional wrestlers you might recognize as well as breakout star Zack Gottsagen, the film follows a young man with Down syndrome runs away from the retirement home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. The crowd...
- 3/16/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Audiences at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas, are famously enthusiastic, cheering for movies with the same kind of bring-down-the-house applause they show bands at the event’s overlapping music fest — so it can be helpful to know which movies they really loved when the 10-day showcase winds to an end and SXSW announces its Audience Awards.
These popular prizes, tallied via ballots at screenings in each category, follow several days after the Grand Jury awards, announced midway through the festival. The SXSW juries selected Josephine Mackerras’ French-language “Alice” in the narrative feature competition and Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ Syria-set “For Sama” as the top documentary.
Passholders and the general public clearly also responded to “For Sama,” which won the Audience Award in the same category, while “Running With Beto” — about the Senatorial campaign of local favorite and presidential contender Beto O’Rourke — took the Documentary Spotlight prize.
These popular prizes, tallied via ballots at screenings in each category, follow several days after the Grand Jury awards, announced midway through the festival. The SXSW juries selected Josephine Mackerras’ French-language “Alice” in the narrative feature competition and Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ Syria-set “For Sama” as the top documentary.
Passholders and the general public clearly also responded to “For Sama,” which won the Audience Award in the same category, while “Running With Beto” — about the Senatorial campaign of local favorite and presidential contender Beto O’Rourke — took the Documentary Spotlight prize.
- 3/16/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Recently another film, about a culturally important woman writer at the end of the 20th Century — Molly Ivins — reminds me very much of the doc ‘What She Said — The Art Of Pauline Kael’. I speak here of ‘Raise Hell — The Life & Times of Molly Ivins’.
Not only stylistically but also thematically similar, each film is about a woman writer who changed our thinking in the period of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Each was not writing particularly about women but about larger issues. Molly about the political scene, the parties, movements, direction. Pauline about the changes in cinema which of course reflected social upheavals and change.
Living through those crazy times — the Viet War, urban uprisings, civil rights, the women’s movement — formed us.
Molly Ivins
What perhaps is most strange is how these prophetic voices, such as these rwo outspoken, leading female thinkers have so long been silenced.
That...
Not only stylistically but also thematically similar, each film is about a woman writer who changed our thinking in the period of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Each was not writing particularly about women but about larger issues. Molly about the political scene, the parties, movements, direction. Pauline about the changes in cinema which of course reflected social upheavals and change.
Living through those crazy times — the Viet War, urban uprisings, civil rights, the women’s movement — formed us.
Molly Ivins
What perhaps is most strange is how these prophetic voices, such as these rwo outspoken, leading female thinkers have so long been silenced.
That...
- 2/19/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Often hilarious and always a delight, Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins is the conversational, down-home story of the Smith College-educated Texan who found herself bouncing around the country to find her voice. When she landed at the New York Times in the late 70s after a stint at the Texas Observer her colorful language became too much for the conservative editors of The Gray Lady. She found herself running the paper’s one-woman Rocky Mountain bureau, concluding that best job at the Times is one away from New York City.
A Texan at heart, she found herself in Dallas where she was given a broad mandate at the Dallas Times Herald, penning several books and later becoming an unintentional expert of the Bush family dynasty. Standing over six-feet tall with a wide frame, Ivins proclaims herself, despite her left-leaning politics, as a proud gun-loving, beer-drinking Texan...
A Texan at heart, she found herself in Dallas where she was given a broad mandate at the Dallas Times Herald, penning several books and later becoming an unintentional expert of the Bush family dynasty. Standing over six-feet tall with a wide frame, Ivins proclaims herself, despite her left-leaning politics, as a proud gun-loving, beer-drinking Texan...
- 1/30/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
If you’re a writer, feminist or liberal, and Molly Ivins wasn’t a hero to you before, “Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins” will instantly help you see the light. Directed by Janice Engel, the documentary ‘Raise Hell’ is a rousing biography that should fill that “Rbg“-shaped hole in the program at this year’s Sundance, reminding fans what they love about the progressive political columnist and introducing others to their new idol.
Continue reading ‘Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins’ Commemorates A Razor Sharp Wit [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins’ Commemorates A Razor Sharp Wit [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
- 1/29/2019
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
Columnist, humorist and author Molly Ivins died in 2007, but the new documentary “Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins” reminds us that her particular brand of perspicacity is as vital and as necessary now as it was when she covered the 1968 Democratic Convention or watched George W. Bush rocket from the Texas governor’s mansion to the White House.
Her trenchant observations about corrupt, lazy or flat-out stupid politicians was must reading then, and timeless in our current era. When one of the film’s many interview clips has her noting that the political spectrum in this country doesn’t run left to right, but rather top to bottom, it’s as relevant as anything in tomorrow’s newspaper.
Newspapers, incidentally, play a significant role in Ivins’ life story, as it’s told by director Janice Engel, making her theatrical feature debut. We follow the writer from gawky...
Her trenchant observations about corrupt, lazy or flat-out stupid politicians was must reading then, and timeless in our current era. When one of the film’s many interview clips has her noting that the political spectrum in this country doesn’t run left to right, but rather top to bottom, it’s as relevant as anything in tomorrow’s newspaper.
Newspapers, incidentally, play a significant role in Ivins’ life story, as it’s told by director Janice Engel, making her theatrical feature debut. We follow the writer from gawky...
- 1/29/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Exclusive: In a clip from the forthcoming Sundance documentary Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, the spotlight is put on Texas journalist, best-selling author and Aclu activist Molly Ivins who Rachel Maddow says “was not afraid to be angry.”
The clip starts with the outspoken figure describing two kinds of humor: the kind that illustrates our “common humanity and foibles” and the kind that holds people to “contempt and ridicule.” In regards to the latter Ivins says, “That’s what I do.”
Directed by Janice Engel, Raise Hell, chronicles the life of political columnist and Texas maverick who spoke truth to power and gave voice to those that had none. Molly used humor like Mark Twain — to skewer the powerful, protect the helpless, and to shine a light on bad government. Six-foot-tall with flaming red hair, Molly was a fearless reporter who stopped at nothing, not even death threats,...
The clip starts with the outspoken figure describing two kinds of humor: the kind that illustrates our “common humanity and foibles” and the kind that holds people to “contempt and ridicule.” In regards to the latter Ivins says, “That’s what I do.”
Directed by Janice Engel, Raise Hell, chronicles the life of political columnist and Texas maverick who spoke truth to power and gave voice to those that had none. Molly used humor like Mark Twain — to skewer the powerful, protect the helpless, and to shine a light on bad government. Six-foot-tall with flaming red hair, Molly was a fearless reporter who stopped at nothing, not even death threats,...
- 1/23/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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