Matthieu Laclau is a French editor who has been working in China and Taiwan since 2008. His collaboration with director Jia Zhangke in A Touch of Sin won him Best Film Editing at the Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan’s equivalent to the Oscars. This year he edited three films in Cannes: Caught by the Tides in Competition, Black Dog in Un Certain Regard, and Meeting with Pol Pot in Cannes Premiere. We sat down with him during the festival and discussed his work on all three films. This interview is originally commissioned by Directube 导筒. The Chinese version will be published on Directube later.
The Film Stage: First, I want to congratulate you for having three films in the Official Selection at this year’s Cannes. How did you get involved with all three? Obviously, you worked with Jia Zhangke since A Touch of Sin but it’s your first time...
The Film Stage: First, I want to congratulate you for having three films in the Official Selection at this year’s Cannes. How did you get involved with all three? Obviously, you worked with Jia Zhangke since A Touch of Sin but it’s your first time...
- 5/30/2024
- by Frank Yan
- The Film Stage
Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross pushed the limits of nonfiction cinema to its outermost reaches with their previous work, 2020’s Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets. But it was the filmmaker brothers themselves who were pushed, mentally and physically, by their follow-up, Gasoline Rainbow. While it utilizes some scrappy filmmaking techniques to cultivate a spirit of naturalism, this coming-of-age story is a work of narrative fiction that feeds on the circumstances of its all-encompassing production to fuel authentic drama.
The Ross brothers’ road film chronicles five recent high school graduates’ winding journey across Oregon toward a place full of self-described weirdos like themselves. The freewheeling style with which the brother filmmakers capture scenes of banter and bonding on the way to a party on the Pacific coast befits the group of non-actors who anchor the film.
It’s that spontaneity and specificity in the filmmaking that lend Gasoline Rainbow a texture beyond that of contemporary times.
The Ross brothers’ road film chronicles five recent high school graduates’ winding journey across Oregon toward a place full of self-described weirdos like themselves. The freewheeling style with which the brother filmmakers capture scenes of banter and bonding on the way to a party on the Pacific coast befits the group of non-actors who anchor the film.
It’s that spontaneity and specificity in the filmmaking that lend Gasoline Rainbow a texture beyond that of contemporary times.
- 5/10/2024
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
Mickey Cottrell, a veteran publicist for independent films known as a champion of filmmakers and actors, died Monday at the Motion Picture Hospital in Woodland Hills, his sister Suzy Cottrell confirmed. He was 79.
Cottrell had returned to Los Angeles in 2019 after living with his sister in Arkansas while he recovered from a stroke he suffered in 2016.
His sister remembered him on Facebook, writing, “My adorable, fun, critical, foodie, particular, brilliant, loving brother passed on to the next life early on New Year’s Day. He was smiling when he died. Mickey Cottrell will be missed by many.”
A fixture at film festivals, he was remembered by friends on Facebook as a generous and sassy raconteur, a devoted mentor, the “life of the party” who threw star-studded Sundance parties in the 1990s and an expert on gay Hollywood history.
Cottrell also acted in numerous small roles over the years, including turns...
Cottrell had returned to Los Angeles in 2019 after living with his sister in Arkansas while he recovered from a stroke he suffered in 2016.
His sister remembered him on Facebook, writing, “My adorable, fun, critical, foodie, particular, brilliant, loving brother passed on to the next life early on New Year’s Day. He was smiling when he died. Mickey Cottrell will be missed by many.”
A fixture at film festivals, he was remembered by friends on Facebook as a generous and sassy raconteur, a devoted mentor, the “life of the party” who threw star-studded Sundance parties in the 1990s and an expert on gay Hollywood history.
Cottrell also acted in numerous small roles over the years, including turns...
- 1/2/2024
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
This Saturday at 12:00 Pm on Food Network, viewers are in for a flavor-packed adventure with Season 7 Episode 5 of “Guy’s Ranch Kitchen” titled “Streetwise.” Hosted by the ever-energetic Guy Fieri, the show invites heavyweight chef friends for a spontaneous Sunday cook-off, promising a feast of unique and flavorful dishes that anyone can recreate at home.
In “Streetwise,” each chef brings their culinary expertise to the ranch, crafting dishes inspired by street food but with a gourmet twist. The episode unfolds as a lively and informal gathering, where the chefs showcase their skills and creativity, making the art of cooking approachable for viewers.
Tune in at 12:00 Pm for a delicious and relaxed afternoon with “Guy’s Ranch Kitchen.” It’s a must-watch for those seeking culinary inspiration, innovative recipes, and a taste of the vibrant world of street food elevated to gourmet heights on Food Network.
Release Date & Time: 12:00 Pm...
In “Streetwise,” each chef brings their culinary expertise to the ranch, crafting dishes inspired by street food but with a gourmet twist. The episode unfolds as a lively and informal gathering, where the chefs showcase their skills and creativity, making the art of cooking approachable for viewers.
Tune in at 12:00 Pm for a delicious and relaxed afternoon with “Guy’s Ranch Kitchen.” It’s a must-watch for those seeking culinary inspiration, innovative recipes, and a taste of the vibrant world of street food elevated to gourmet heights on Food Network.
Release Date & Time: 12:00 Pm...
- 12/3/2023
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
Making a top ten list of your favourite movies can be difficult, but is it any easier when you narrow that list down to a single decade? IndieWire asked dozens of filmmakers to put together a list of their favourite 80s movies, and the results are as widely varied as the decade itself. Which 80s movies does Bill Hader hold dear to his heart? What are some of Nia DaCosta’s favourites? Can Edgar Wright actually contain himself to just ten movies? What horror movies of the 80s top Eli Roth’s list?
Bill Hader’s (Barry) Favourite 80s Movies:
Thin Blue Line Road Warrior Blood Simple Evil Dead 1&2 Raging Bull Naked Gun The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On The Hit Raising Arizona Crimes and Misdemeanors Blue Velvet Where is the Friends House Pee Wees Big Adventure Midnight Run Come and See Do the Right Thing My Neighbor Totoro Die Hard Paris,...
Bill Hader’s (Barry) Favourite 80s Movies:
Thin Blue Line Road Warrior Blood Simple Evil Dead 1&2 Raging Bull Naked Gun The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On The Hit Raising Arizona Crimes and Misdemeanors Blue Velvet Where is the Friends House Pee Wees Big Adventure Midnight Run Come and See Do the Right Thing My Neighbor Totoro Die Hard Paris,...
- 8/18/2023
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: After producing Gasoline Rainbow, the latest boundary-pushing work from rising star filmmakers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, which is set to world premiere in the Orizzonti section of this year’s Venice Film Festival, Mubi has retained U.S. rights and set the film for theatrical release in 2024.
The Match Factory is handling international sales.
Starring newcomers Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza, the film written, produced, shot and directed by the Ross Brothers follows five teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rearview, decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been —the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “F**k it.”
By van, boat, train, and foot, their improvised odyssey takes them through desert wilderness,...
The Match Factory is handling international sales.
Starring newcomers Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza, the film written, produced, shot and directed by the Ross Brothers follows five teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rearview, decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been —the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “F**k it.”
By van, boat, train, and foot, their improvised odyssey takes them through desert wilderness,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Return To Dust, an arthouse hit in China last summer before being pulled from release, opens Stateside this weekend with Film Movement presenting on two screens – NYC’s Bam Rose Cinema and the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, expanding to LA and Seattle next Friday.
The distributor acquired the film directed by Li Ruijun after it premiered in Berlin in March, 2022 to glowing reviews, see Deadlines’s here. Hai Quing and Wu Renlin star as a middle-aged couple in a rural province encouraged to marry by their families, who see them as a burden. Love and respect slowly as they scratch out a living of extreme hardship working the land. A 95% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
First released last July in China, it played unusually well for an arthouse title there and appeared on streaming platforms in early September before disappearing later that month without explanation.
Regulators don’t...
The distributor acquired the film directed by Li Ruijun after it premiered in Berlin in March, 2022 to glowing reviews, see Deadlines’s here. Hai Quing and Wu Renlin star as a middle-aged couple in a rural province encouraged to marry by their families, who see them as a burden. Love and respect slowly as they scratch out a living of extreme hardship working the land. A 95% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
First released last July in China, it played unusually well for an arthouse title there and appeared on streaming platforms in early September before disappearing later that month without explanation.
Regulators don’t...
- 7/21/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris-based sales outfit Totem Films has acquired “A Song Sung Blue,” by Chinese director Zihan Geng, and “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,” from Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani. Both films will premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.
“A Song Sung Blue” is the feature debut of the Beijing-born Geng. The coming-of-age story follows 15-year-old Xian, who’s left in the care of her estranged father, a struggling photographer, after her mother is compelled to travel to Africa for work. Over the course of a restless summer, Xian befriends 18-year-old Mingmei, the daughter of his father’s assistant-turned-girlfriend, and soon finds herself looking up to the older girl.
Driven by the ignorance and impulse of youth, their friendship will leave an unforgettable mark on the young girl’s life, a journey that “we follow to retrieve the memories of that distant part of our own youth,” according to Geng.
“A Song Sung Blue” is the feature debut of the Beijing-born Geng. The coming-of-age story follows 15-year-old Xian, who’s left in the care of her estranged father, a struggling photographer, after her mother is compelled to travel to Africa for work. Over the course of a restless summer, Xian befriends 18-year-old Mingmei, the daughter of his father’s assistant-turned-girlfriend, and soon finds herself looking up to the older girl.
Driven by the ignorance and impulse of youth, their friendship will leave an unforgettable mark on the young girl’s life, a journey that “we follow to retrieve the memories of that distant part of our own youth,” according to Geng.
- 4/18/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
After a pandemic-forced cancellation last year, Cannes Film Festival made a triumphant return this year, featuring some premieres pegged for the 2020 edition as well as a new crop of work. While our coverage will continue over the next week or so, and far beyond as we provide updates on the journey of these selections, we’ve asked our contributors on the ground to share their favorites from this year’s festival.
See their picks below and explore all of our coverage here.
Rory O’Connor
1. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
2. Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
3. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
5. Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
6. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
7. Annette (Leos Carax)
8. The Tale of King Crab (Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis)
9. Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise)
10. Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
Honorable Mention: The Hill Where The Lionesses Roar (Luàna Bajrami)
David Katz
1. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. In Front of Your Face...
See their picks below and explore all of our coverage here.
Rory O’Connor
1. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
2. Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
3. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
5. Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
6. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
7. Annette (Leos Carax)
8. The Tale of King Crab (Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis)
9. Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise)
10. Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
Honorable Mention: The Hill Where The Lionesses Roar (Luàna Bajrami)
David Katz
1. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. In Front of Your Face...
- 7/20/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Na Jiazuo’s debut feature-length film “Streetwise” is dedicated to all souls in need of comfort, none of which any of his protagonists ever gets. Dysfunctional families and the lack of perspective in Zhenwu, (the Sichuan-Chongqing region), are central to the story about 21-year-old debt-collector Dong Zi, a youth who doesn’t feel good about what he is doing, but he does it anyway for one single reason (or so he claims).
Streetwise is screening at Cannes Film Festival
One could call “Streetwise” anything but a crime film, despite of more than a couple of murky things going on in its not-so-easy-to-comprehend net of ideas. It is also not a type of social commentary, despite of its story being set against the backdrop of 2004, a year that saw big migrations from rural China to megacities. Zhenwu looks ghastly empty at night, with constant drizzle hanging over it.
At daylight, this...
Streetwise is screening at Cannes Film Festival
One could call “Streetwise” anything but a crime film, despite of more than a couple of murky things going on in its not-so-easy-to-comprehend net of ideas. It is also not a type of social commentary, despite of its story being set against the backdrop of 2004, a year that saw big migrations from rural China to megacities. Zhenwu looks ghastly empty at night, with constant drizzle hanging over it.
At daylight, this...
- 7/16/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
The story of Na Jiazuo’s feature debut “Streetwise” is set up against the backdrop of big Chinese migrations to megacities upon the turn of the century, and follows a group of different people struggling with hardships in a small town in the Sichuan-Chongqing region: a debt-collector, a not that good tattoo artist, a gangster with a soft spot for music, and a father from hell… The film competes for Camera D’Or in Un Certain Regard programme of Cannes Film Festival, which was an excellent reason to meet the director and one of the two lead actors of “Streetwise” – Huang Miyi in Cannes, and talk about the strange milieu the story was set in, about using different Chinese dialects to underline the gap between people, and about not that simple nature of human inter-connectivity.
Streetwise screened at Cannes Film Festival
(question to Na Jiazuo) Why did you set up...
Streetwise screened at Cannes Film Festival
(question to Na Jiazuo) Why did you set up...
- 7/15/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Na Jiazuo, one of the few Chinese directors to make it to the Cannes Film Festival this year, says he learned from the best in the business. His “Streetwise” (aka “Gaey Wa’r”) unspools in Un Certain Regard and is eligible for the Camera d’Or, reflecting Na’s status as a rookie feature director.
The picture is a gritty, largely nocturnal, portrait of a group of young adults in an unfashionable town as they come to terms with life’s uneasy lot. In particular, it focuses on a 21-year-old man who becomes inured in violence as he becomes a debt collector’s henchman in order to pay off his father’s hospital bills.
Na calls “Streetwise” “a film about struggle,” but puts the characters’ challenges into context. “At the beginning of the 2000s a lot of people swarmed to the big cities from the remote parts of China. But...
The picture is a gritty, largely nocturnal, portrait of a group of young adults in an unfashionable town as they come to terms with life’s uneasy lot. In particular, it focuses on a 21-year-old man who becomes inured in violence as he becomes a debt collector’s henchman in order to pay off his father’s hospital bills.
Na calls “Streetwise” “a film about struggle,” but puts the characters’ challenges into context. “At the beginning of the 2000s a lot of people swarmed to the big cities from the remote parts of China. But...
- 7/9/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
French distribution company Arp has picked up rights to “Streetwise,” the Chinese film that will have its world premiere next week at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section.
Directed by first-time feature maker Na Jiazuo, the film is a detailed look at the lives and predicaments of young people in China in the early 2000s who did not migrate to the big cities. A tough love tale, it is also a film about the possibly of changing and redemption.
The story follows a small-town youth who becomes the henchman to a debt-collector. His life is complicated by a cold and estranged parent-child relationship, and an ambiguous relationship with a young woman.
“We were mesmerized by the film, its tone and its style, the way it navigates between cruelty and longing, elation and melancholy, hope and despair. Na Jiazuo is definitely a new voice in Chinese cinema,...
Directed by first-time feature maker Na Jiazuo, the film is a detailed look at the lives and predicaments of young people in China in the early 2000s who did not migrate to the big cities. A tough love tale, it is also a film about the possibly of changing and redemption.
The story follows a small-town youth who becomes the henchman to a debt-collector. His life is complicated by a cold and estranged parent-child relationship, and an ambiguous relationship with a young woman.
“We were mesmerized by the film, its tone and its style, the way it navigates between cruelty and longing, elation and melancholy, hope and despair. Na Jiazuo is definitely a new voice in Chinese cinema,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
France- and Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon has picked up international rights to Chinese crime drama “Streetwise,” which will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section. Before that, Cercamon has released a trailer.
The film (aka “Gaey Wa’r”) is the debut feature effort of Na Jiazuo, who is a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and had previously directed shorts. That makes “Streetwise” a candidate for the Camera d’Or awarded to the best first film in any of Cannes’ official and sidebar sections.
“Streetwise” was executive produced by Guan Hu, who directed record breaker “The Eight Hundred” and “Mister Six,” and has a track record as a discoverer and supporter of new directing talent.
The film is a detailed look at the lives and predicaments of young people in China in the early 2000s who did not migrate to the big cities.
The film (aka “Gaey Wa’r”) is the debut feature effort of Na Jiazuo, who is a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and had previously directed shorts. That makes “Streetwise” a candidate for the Camera d’Or awarded to the best first film in any of Cannes’ official and sidebar sections.
“Streetwise” was executive produced by Guan Hu, who directed record breaker “The Eight Hundred” and “Mister Six,” and has a track record as a discoverer and supporter of new directing talent.
The film is a detailed look at the lives and predicaments of young people in China in the early 2000s who did not migrate to the big cities.
- 6/28/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
content warning: addiction, child sexual abuse, suicide Devastated by the Boeing Bust in the early 1970s, Seattle remained on shaky economic ground for years -- with a nation-leading unemployment rate and a rock-bottom minimum wage. In the shadow of this financial crisis, the city's homeless population skyrocketed, including young people who preferred the streets over the pressures of home. These children became the focus of photographer Mary Ellen Mark and writer Cheryl McCall's story for a 1983 issue of Life Magazine; working with Mark's husband, Martin Bell, they went on to create Streetwise, a 1984 cinema verité documentary about many of the young people Mark had met and befriended over the previous year. Streetwise documents the lives and lifestyles of dozens of street kids on...
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- 6/17/2021
- Screen Anarchy
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When you think about summer movies, big-budget blockbusters tend to come to mind. But it’s smart to diversify your viewing list. For the movie lovers who enjoy watching films in stunning clarity with bonus-scenes and extra content, all from the comforts of home, Criterion Collection Blu-rays are the way to go. To help with your summer movie list, we rounded up a handful of new Criterion Collection movies due out this month, and that you can pre-order right now. The selection includes LGBTQ stories to celebrate Pride Month, a gripping documentary on homeless teens, and much more. Below, find our selection of Criterion Collection Blu-rays to pre-order for the month of June,...
When you think about summer movies, big-budget blockbusters tend to come to mind. But it’s smart to diversify your viewing list. For the movie lovers who enjoy watching films in stunning clarity with bonus-scenes and extra content, all from the comforts of home, Criterion Collection Blu-rays are the way to go. To help with your summer movie list, we rounded up a handful of new Criterion Collection movies due out this month, and that you can pre-order right now. The selection includes LGBTQ stories to celebrate Pride Month, a gripping documentary on homeless teens, and much more. Below, find our selection of Criterion Collection Blu-rays to pre-order for the month of June,...
- 6/1/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
The Criterion Collection’s June 2021 lineup has been unveiled, led by Masaki Kobayashi’s staggering, 9.5-hour epic The Human Condition, a seven-film set dedicated to poignant, incisive works of Marlon Riggs, best known for Tongues Untied, and Dee Rees’ acclaimed debut Pariah.
One of the greatest film noirs, Samuel Fuller’s immensely entertaining Pickup on South Street, will also get a release, along with Martin Bell’s two-film series Streetwise and Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell, and the Munich 1972 Olympics feature Visions of Eight, with contributions by Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Juri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai Zetterling.
Check out the cover art for each below and see more here.
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One of the greatest film noirs, Samuel Fuller’s immensely entertaining Pickup on South Street, will also get a release, along with Martin Bell’s two-film series Streetwise and Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell, and the Munich 1972 Olympics feature Visions of Eight, with contributions by Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Juri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai Zetterling.
Check out the cover art for each below and see more here.
The post The Criterion Collection's June Lineup Includes The Human Condition, Marlon Riggs, Pariah & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
- 3/15/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The youth party culture, as portrayed in the mass media, tends to be driven by a certain debauched and glamorous energy: the clubbing, the drugs, the “freedom,” the your-life’s-a-soap-opera excitement that turns the rituals of hooking up into a flame that lures everyone. But in “Cusp,” a documentary about three small-town Texas teenagers wiling away the summer, the party imperative may be just as compulsive, but it’s the scaled-down, middle-of-nowhere version, where a party is a bonfire and a bunch of dudes standing around with beer and blunts and a jug of moonshine and whatever girls they can get to show up. It’s a slovenly frat house without walls. So unlike the average party you’d see on a reality show, it actually looks as selfish and dangerous as it is.
“Cusp,” the first feature directed by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt, is a documentary hang-out movie...
“Cusp,” the first feature directed by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt, is a documentary hang-out movie...
- 2/15/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The Criterion Channel’s September 2020 Lineup Includes Sátántangó, Agnès Varda, Albert Brooks & More
As the coronavirus pandemic still rages on, precious few remain skeptical about going to the movies. But while your AMCs and others claim some godlike safety from Covid, there remains a chunk of people still uncomfortable hitting up theaters. To them, we bring you the September 2020 Criterion Channel lineup.
It starts off with quite the swath of content too. Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó hits the service on September 1, and its seven-plus hours should take up a large chunk of your day. Coming soon after is a collection of more than a dozen Joan Blondell starrers from the pre-Code era, including Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars, three collaborations with Mervyn LeRoy, and Ray Enright & Busby Berkeley’s Dames.
For some stuff released almost a century later, the service also sees the addition of documentary bender Robert Greene. His Actress, Kate Plays Christine, and Bisbee ’17 join soon after. Janicza Bravo, director of Lemon,...
It starts off with quite the swath of content too. Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó hits the service on September 1, and its seven-plus hours should take up a large chunk of your day. Coming soon after is a collection of more than a dozen Joan Blondell starrers from the pre-Code era, including Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars, three collaborations with Mervyn LeRoy, and Ray Enright & Busby Berkeley’s Dames.
For some stuff released almost a century later, the service also sees the addition of documentary bender Robert Greene. His Actress, Kate Plays Christine, and Bisbee ’17 join soon after. Janicza Bravo, director of Lemon,...
- 8/25/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
Jonathan Oppenheim Dies: Documentary Editor Who Cut ‘Paris Is Burning’ & Pov’s ‘Sister Helen’ Was 67
Jonathan Oppenheim, an Emmy-nominated documentary editor who cut such films as Paris Is Burning and Sister Helen along with P.O.V. and Frontline entries for PBS, has died. He was 67. Sundance Institute confirmed the news today that Oppenheim died on July 17 in New York City.
“Our friend, collaborator and talented film editor Jonathan Oppenheim has passed away,” the group said. “He leaves behind a distinct and significant body of work, which we cannot categorize other than to say he dedicated his life’s work to the art form of documentary storytelling. We will miss him.”
Our friend, collaborator and talented film editor Jonathan Oppenheim has passed away. He leaves behind a distinct and significant body of work, which we cannot categorize other than to say he dedicated his life’s work to the art form of documentary storytelling. We will miss him. pic.twitter.com/6836OksBME
— Sundance Institute (@sundanceorg) July 21, 2020
His...
“Our friend, collaborator and talented film editor Jonathan Oppenheim has passed away,” the group said. “He leaves behind a distinct and significant body of work, which we cannot categorize other than to say he dedicated his life’s work to the art form of documentary storytelling. We will miss him.”
Our friend, collaborator and talented film editor Jonathan Oppenheim has passed away. He leaves behind a distinct and significant body of work, which we cannot categorize other than to say he dedicated his life’s work to the art form of documentary storytelling. We will miss him. pic.twitter.com/6836OksBME
— Sundance Institute (@sundanceorg) July 21, 2020
His...
- 7/21/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Documentary film editor Jonathan Oppenheim died July 16 in New York City, Sundance Institute confirmed to Variety. He was 67 and had been battling brain cancer .
“Jonathan began his life in the arts as a painter which informed his sensibility in film,” his wife, Josie Oppenheim, wrote in a statement. “He was a talented and highly original painter but documentary film was his chosen medium. The collaborative dynamic while not always peaceful was one aspect of the work that Jonathan loved.”
Oppenheim was best known for editing “Paris is Burning” (1990) and Oscar nominee “Children Underground” (2001). He also edited and co-produced “The Oath” (2010), the Emmy-nominated film in Laura Poitras’ post 9/11 trilogy.
Born to TV producer David Oppenheim and actress Judy Holliday in 1952, he began his editing career with the seminal “Paris is Burning,” directed by Jennie Livingston. He devoted his career to documentary storytelling and edited over 24 films, including the Oscar-nominated films “Streetwise...
“Jonathan began his life in the arts as a painter which informed his sensibility in film,” his wife, Josie Oppenheim, wrote in a statement. “He was a talented and highly original painter but documentary film was his chosen medium. The collaborative dynamic while not always peaceful was one aspect of the work that Jonathan loved.”
Oppenheim was best known for editing “Paris is Burning” (1990) and Oscar nominee “Children Underground” (2001). He also edited and co-produced “The Oath” (2010), the Emmy-nominated film in Laura Poitras’ post 9/11 trilogy.
Born to TV producer David Oppenheim and actress Judy Holliday in 1952, he began his editing career with the seminal “Paris is Burning,” directed by Jennie Livingston. He devoted his career to documentary storytelling and edited over 24 films, including the Oscar-nominated films “Streetwise...
- 7/21/2020
- by Janet W. Lee
- Variety Film + TV
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Film at Lincoln Center
The J. Hoberman-curated “Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan” kicks off with Blow Out, Back to the Future, The King of Comedy and more.
Funny Face screens for free at the Josie Robertson Plaza.
Metrograph
“Shaw Sisters,” a series on female-directed Hong Kong cinema, begins.
The...
Film at Lincoln Center
The J. Hoberman-curated “Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan” kicks off with Blow Out, Back to the Future, The King of Comedy and more.
Funny Face screens for free at the Josie Robertson Plaza.
Metrograph
“Shaw Sisters,” a series on female-directed Hong Kong cinema, begins.
The...
- 8/23/2019
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
By Glenn Dunks
For a film about teenagers living rough, squatting in dilapidated and abandoned hotels or homeless on the streets, there is a remarkable amount of poetic beauty in Streetwise. The work of director Martin Bell (American Heart) was born out of a Life exposé called “Streets of the Lost” by his photographer wife (also noted as a film still photographer) Mary Ellen Mark and journalist Cheryl McCall and it is the latter pair’s continued relationship with the runaway teenagers who populate its intimate yet sprawling narrative that was so essential to Bell being given the remarkable access that Streetwise offers.
Originally released in 1984 and now restored for its 35th anniversary, Bell’s documentary was nominated for an Academy Award. And it probably would have won, too, had it not been for The Times of Harvey Milk. So not quite as egregious of a loss as I had...
For a film about teenagers living rough, squatting in dilapidated and abandoned hotels or homeless on the streets, there is a remarkable amount of poetic beauty in Streetwise. The work of director Martin Bell (American Heart) was born out of a Life exposé called “Streets of the Lost” by his photographer wife (also noted as a film still photographer) Mary Ellen Mark and journalist Cheryl McCall and it is the latter pair’s continued relationship with the runaway teenagers who populate its intimate yet sprawling narrative that was so essential to Bell being given the remarkable access that Streetwise offers.
Originally released in 1984 and now restored for its 35th anniversary, Bell’s documentary was nominated for an Academy Award. And it probably would have won, too, had it not been for The Times of Harvey Milk. So not quite as egregious of a loss as I had...
- 7/24/2019
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
In the oversaturated cinematic climate of 2019, sequels are semi-hated. The concept of second chapters continuing narratives and diving deeper into characters has vanished in favor of releasing uninspired, cliche follow-ups to franchises that most of the populace never cared about, to begin with. While this diatribe may seem unrelated to “Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell,” Martin Bell’s spiritual successor to his 1984 documentary “Streetwise,” the film surprisingly showcases a prime formula for how a sequel should be executed.
Continue reading ‘Tiny: The Life Of Erin Blackwell’: The ‘Streetwise’ Follow-Up Is A Sobering Look At The Fallout Of Poverty & Addiction [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Tiny: The Life Of Erin Blackwell’: The ‘Streetwise’ Follow-Up Is A Sobering Look At The Fallout Of Poverty & Addiction [Review] at The Playlist.
- 7/19/2019
- by Jonathan Christian
- The Playlist
The introductory scene of Martin Bell’s documentary “Streetwise” depicts a child jumping off a bridge. The boy, who the audience will soon come to know as Rat, fearlessly falls through the air with no visible destination until, moments later, he hits the water below, disappearing beneath the current with a splash. The aforementioned imagery, which captures both a childish desire for adventure and the undeniable reality of real-world danger, constructs the groundwork for what remains of “Streetwise,” a documentary that chronicles the irrefutably bleak realities of homelessness and the aftermath of forsaken youth.
Continue reading ‘Streetwise’ Is A Landmark Documentary That Captures The Brutal Reality Of Homeless Youth And Broken Homes [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Streetwise’ Is A Landmark Documentary That Captures The Brutal Reality Of Homeless Youth And Broken Homes [Review] at The Playlist.
- 7/19/2019
- by Jonathan Christian
- The Playlist
On the heels of other successful music-oriented non-fiction titles, Sony Pictures Classics’ David Crosby: Remember My Name opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend. The doc, spotlighting the long-time rocker, headlines a fairly busy weekend of new Specialties making their debuts. Freestyle Releasing is going day and date with aging superhero feature Supervised, starring Tom Berenger, Beau Bridges and Louis Gossett Jr., while Breaking Glass Pictures is heading out with Tokyo-set gangster thriller She’s Just a Shadow. A thriller set overseas is Screen Media’s Berlinale 2018 title, Luz, which opens Friday in New York and L.A.
Other limited release debuts include Martin Bell’s doc Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell at Metrograph in New York, along with his 1984 doc Streetwise that introduced the real-life Tiny decades ago. Also heading out is Karlovy Vary Film Festival prize winner I Do Not Care If We Go...
Other limited release debuts include Martin Bell’s doc Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell at Metrograph in New York, along with his 1984 doc Streetwise that introduced the real-life Tiny decades ago. Also heading out is Karlovy Vary Film Festival prize winner I Do Not Care If We Go...
- 7/19/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
“Streetwise,” the classic and haunting 1984 documentary about homeless street kids in Seattle, is a movie that’s now 35 years old. But for anyone who has seen it, the children it’s about — drifters, hustlers, squatters, thieves, prostitutes — remain frozen in time. And none of them was ever more memorable than Tiny, the 14-year-old baby-doll hooker with the punk-peacock shag cut and the mouth that turned down at the corners with a look of jaded desolation you’d expect to see on the face of someone 30 years older.
In the most famous photograph associated with “Streetwise,” an image shot by Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny stares out at the camera with a look of dead-eyed knowingness, her scrawny body clothed in a sleeveless black dress, black gloves, and a hat with a veil that comes halfway down her face. What’s indelible about that image is that Tiny, with her children-of-the-damned stare and French courtesan’s clothing,...
In the most famous photograph associated with “Streetwise,” an image shot by Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny stares out at the camera with a look of dead-eyed knowingness, her scrawny body clothed in a sleeveless black dress, black gloves, and a hat with a veil that comes halfway down her face. What’s indelible about that image is that Tiny, with her children-of-the-damned stare and French courtesan’s clothing,...
- 7/19/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
"That's part of my past, now..." Janus Films has debuted an official trailer for a brand new restoration of the classic documentary Streetwise, which originally showed at the Sundance Film Festival (then known as the "U.S. Film Festival") back in January of 1985. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1985, but lost to The Times of Harvey Milk that year. Made by filmmaker Martin Bell, the documentarian returned thirty years later with the new follow-up / sequel titled Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell. The original doc is a groundbreaking film on homeless and runaway teenagers, and one of the main subjects was a woman named Tiny. They caught up with her again 30 years later for an update. "Now a forty-four year-old mother of ten, Blackwell reflects with Mark on the journey they've experienced together, from Blackwell's struggles with addiction to her regrets to her dreams for her own children.
- 7/5/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In recent years, the popularity of documentaries has exploded, thanks to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Now, more than ever before, it’s easier to not only make a documentary but also find a platform that will bring it to a worldwide audience. But back in the early-’80s, it was a different world. And nothing can show how different the world was back then better than the acclaimed documentary “Streetwise.”
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In honor of a brand-new restoration of the 1984 film, “Streetwise,” coming to Metrograph later this month, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at the new trailer and poster for the film, as well as a new poster for the follow-up “Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell.”
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Filmed in 1983, “Streetwise” follows...
Read More: The 20 Best Documentaries Of 2018
In honor of a brand-new restoration of the 1984 film, “Streetwise,” coming to Metrograph later this month, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at the new trailer and poster for the film, as well as a new poster for the follow-up “Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell.”
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Filmed in 1983, “Streetwise” follows...
- 7/1/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Oscar winner Bao premiered at festival least year.
New work featuring actors Brian Dennehy, Amanda Plummer, and Keenan Thompson will screen as part of a 63-strong slate of shorts at the 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T, which runs from April 24-May 5.
This year’s shorts programme includes 31 world premieres and was culled from a record 5,131 submissions, with female filmmakers directing 45% of the selections.
The short films will be presented in 11 competition programmes comprising six narrative and four documentary strands, and one dedicated to animation. The flagship New York Shorts Program this year is entitled Streetwise and contains entirely world premiere narrative films.
New work featuring actors Brian Dennehy, Amanda Plummer, and Keenan Thompson will screen as part of a 63-strong slate of shorts at the 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T, which runs from April 24-May 5.
This year’s shorts programme includes 31 world premieres and was culled from a record 5,131 submissions, with female filmmakers directing 45% of the selections.
The short films will be presented in 11 competition programmes comprising six narrative and four documentary strands, and one dedicated to animation. The flagship New York Shorts Program this year is entitled Streetwise and contains entirely world premiere narrative films.
- 3/11/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Playback is a Variety / iHeartRadio podcast bringing you conversations with the talents behind many of today’s hottest films. New episodes air every Thursday.
With 15 years in the film business behind him, 34-year-old actor Jonah Hill has made the transition to directing with “Mid90s,” a raw, personal story of his youth brought to life by an array of actors and non-actors. Inspired by filmmakers like Mike Nichols and Barry Levinson, who moved from comedy to drama with equal aplomb, Hill says he held out on tackling his first feature behind the camera because, after all, you only ever get one crack at it. The result is a work that has been compared to the cinema of Larry Clark and Richard Linklater, but nevertheless pulses with its own distinctive voice.
Listen to this week’s episode of “Playback” below. New episodes air every Thursday.
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With 15 years in the film business behind him, 34-year-old actor Jonah Hill has made the transition to directing with “Mid90s,” a raw, personal story of his youth brought to life by an array of actors and non-actors. Inspired by filmmakers like Mike Nichols and Barry Levinson, who moved from comedy to drama with equal aplomb, Hill says he held out on tackling his first feature behind the camera because, after all, you only ever get one crack at it. The result is a work that has been compared to the cinema of Larry Clark and Richard Linklater, but nevertheless pulses with its own distinctive voice.
Listen to this week’s episode of “Playback” below. New episodes air every Thursday.
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- 10/18/2018
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
To revisit Martin Bell‘s landmark documentary Streetwise 32 years after its initial release is an experience that would at times seem to beggar an audience’s capacity for prejudice. Never was a community so commonly perceived as forlorn and despondent as Seattle’s homeless youth population ever depicted in such a sharp contrast to common notions of indigence. To endure the film alongside Bell’s feature-length update, Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell — made possible as part of BAMCinemaFest’s NY Premiere Double-Feature this Saturday — is to stand the test of self-questioning that belies any deeper look into the reality of poverty and its lifelong repercussions. Tiny, […]...
- 6/23/2016
- by Evan Louison
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
From stoner to alien to all-American hero, Jeff Bridges immerses himself in every role. Here, his friends, co-stars and directors uncover the man behind the movies
Loyd Catlett
Stand-in, stunt double, assistant and/or actor in all Bridges's films since The Last Picture Show (1971)
I met Jeff on The Last Picture Show, which I had a small part in, and we hit it off really well during the rehearsal period and started hanging out together. He was trying to polish his southern accent for the film, so he was taking his cue from mine. I stayed in Los Angeles after we finished looping, and started pursuing an acting career. One day, while talking with Jeff on the phone, I mentioned that there weren't any parts coming my way; he suggested, since he was going to Europe to start a film, perhaps he could help if I was interested in being a stand-in for him.
Loyd Catlett
Stand-in, stunt double, assistant and/or actor in all Bridges's films since The Last Picture Show (1971)
I met Jeff on The Last Picture Show, which I had a small part in, and we hit it off really well during the rehearsal period and started hanging out together. He was trying to polish his southern accent for the film, so he was taking his cue from mine. I stayed in Los Angeles after we finished looping, and started pursuing an acting career. One day, while talking with Jeff on the phone, I mentioned that there weren't any parts coming my way; he suggested, since he was going to Europe to start a film, perhaps he could help if I was interested in being a stand-in for him.
- 5/26/2011
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
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