Every week, a bevy of new releases (independent or otherwise), open in theaters. That’s why we created the Weekly Film Guide, filled with basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.
For August, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for August 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, August 19. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
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Ben-Hur
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Nazanin Boniadi, Rodrigo Santoro, Toby Kebbell
Synopsis: The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title,...
For August, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for August 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, August 19. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
Ben-Hur
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Nazanin Boniadi, Rodrigo Santoro, Toby Kebbell
Synopsis: The epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title,...
- 8/19/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Every year, IndieWire asks the Toronto Film Festival’s ace documentary programmer, Thom Powers, to dig into the new lineup. The doc czar’s influence extends beyond Toronto to IFC Center’s Stranger than Fiction series, The SundanceNow Doc Club, and November’s influential festival Doc NYC, which selects the infamous Short List, many of which head for Oscar contention.
This year, the Tiff doc program (September 8-18) numbers 37 titles. It’s led by four veterans — Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris, and Werner Herzog—big names who will pull audiences, playing alongside newcomers who will benefit from the Tiff spotlight. Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio have made a new documentary that they hope will push the needle on climate change. Netflix boasts four high-profile offerings likely to factor in the always intense doc Oscar race. And there’s a plethora of new titles that await discovery — and buyers.
Read...
This year, the Tiff doc program (September 8-18) numbers 37 titles. It’s led by four veterans — Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris, and Werner Herzog—big names who will pull audiences, playing alongside newcomers who will benefit from the Tiff spotlight. Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio have made a new documentary that they hope will push the needle on climate change. Netflix boasts four high-profile offerings likely to factor in the always intense doc Oscar race. And there’s a plethora of new titles that await discovery — and buyers.
Read...
- 8/11/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Every year, IndieWire asks the Toronto Film Festival’s ace documentary programmer, Thom Powers, to dig into the new lineup. The doc czar’s influence extends beyond Toronto to IFC Center’s Stranger than Fiction series, The SundanceNow Doc Club, and November’s influential festival Doc NYC, which selects the infamous Short List, many of which head for Oscar contention.
This year, the Tiff doc program (September 8-18) numbers 37 titles. It’s led by four veterans — Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris, and Werner Herzog—big names who will pull audiences, playing alongside newcomers who will benefit from the Tiff spotlight. Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio have made a new documentary that they hope will push the needle on climate change. Netflix boasts four high-profile offerings likely to factor in the always intense doc Oscar race. And there’s a plethora of new titles that await discovery — and buyers.
Read...
This year, the Tiff doc program (September 8-18) numbers 37 titles. It’s led by four veterans — Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris, and Werner Herzog—big names who will pull audiences, playing alongside newcomers who will benefit from the Tiff spotlight. Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio have made a new documentary that they hope will push the needle on climate change. Netflix boasts four high-profile offerings likely to factor in the always intense doc Oscar race. And there’s a plethora of new titles that await discovery — and buyers.
Read...
- 8/11/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will open the 2014 edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival with the world premiere of a brand new restoration of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1955). TCM’s own Robert Osborne, who serves as official host for the festival, will introduce Oklahoma!, with the film’s star, Academy Award®-winner Shirley Jones, in attendance. Vanity Fair will also return for the fifth year as a festival partner and co-presenter of the opening night after-party. Marking its fifth year, the TCM Classic Film Festival will take place April 10-13, 2014, in Hollywood. The gathering will coincide withTCM’s 20th anniversary as a leading authority in classic film.
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
- 2/14/2014
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Warning: This recap of Pretty Little Liars is completely fictional. Any resemblance to the actual show is not intentional, except yeah, this is totally the actual show with exactly what actually happened. Did you not watch?
So last week on Pretty Little Liars, the same thing happened in Rosewood that happens every goddamn week in Rosewood: someone moved into the house of a dead bitch and pretended to know all the secrets within it, and Spencer's shrew nose sniffed a clue. Hanna walked all over Caleb, Aria loved Ezra but was contemplating having sex with someone else to make her life a little more spicy, and Emily wandered aimlessly, wondering what the hell a "smile" was.
We start on a bright, sunny morning, but I imagine that to Emily Fields and Her Horribly Sad Face, this looks like a dreary morning where the clouds are grey and it's raining Maya's blood,...
So last week on Pretty Little Liars, the same thing happened in Rosewood that happens every goddamn week in Rosewood: someone moved into the house of a dead bitch and pretended to know all the secrets within it, and Spencer's shrew nose sniffed a clue. Hanna walked all over Caleb, Aria loved Ezra but was contemplating having sex with someone else to make her life a little more spicy, and Emily wandered aimlessly, wondering what the hell a "smile" was.
We start on a bright, sunny morning, but I imagine that to Emily Fields and Her Horribly Sad Face, this looks like a dreary morning where the clouds are grey and it's raining Maya's blood,...
- 9/12/2012
- by Terron R. Moore
- TVology
American entertainer and singer popular in the 1940s and 50s
The American entertainer Tony Martin, who has died aged 98, was once described as a singing tuxedo. Although he was rather a stiff actor, he was handsome and charming, with a winning, dimpled smile. What mattered most, however, was his mellifluous baritone voice, which he used softly in ballads such as To Each His Own and I Get Ideas, and powerfully in Begin the Beguine and There's No Tomorrow, all hit records in the 1940s and 50s.
He was one of the top crooners of the period with Vic Damone, Andy Williams and Dick Haymes, all of them just below Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra in esteem and popularity. According to Mel Tormé: "Tony Martin was technically the greatest singer of them all, as well as being the classiest guy around, both as an entertainer and a person."
He was...
The American entertainer Tony Martin, who has died aged 98, was once described as a singing tuxedo. Although he was rather a stiff actor, he was handsome and charming, with a winning, dimpled smile. What mattered most, however, was his mellifluous baritone voice, which he used softly in ballads such as To Each His Own and I Get Ideas, and powerfully in Begin the Beguine and There's No Tomorrow, all hit records in the 1940s and 50s.
He was one of the top crooners of the period with Vic Damone, Andy Williams and Dick Haymes, all of them just below Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra in esteem and popularity. According to Mel Tormé: "Tony Martin was technically the greatest singer of them all, as well as being the classiest guy around, both as an entertainer and a person."
He was...
- 7/31/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Larry Hagman Confirmed for TNT's New Dallas
"I haven't signed any contract but I gave them my commitment verbally," says the star, who'll turn 80 this year. "I just told them I'd do it and my word's good!"
Skins creator responds to criticisms
"Skins is a very simple and in fact rather old fashioned television series. It's about the lives and loves of teenagers, how they get through high school, how they deal with their friends, and also how they circumnavigate some of the complications of sex, relationships, educations, parents, drugs and alcohol. The show is written from the perspective of teenagers, reflects their world view, and this has caused a degree of controversy both in the UK and the USA."
Julianne Moore to Receive Harvard's Hasty Pudding Award
The actress will be roasted by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals -- the nation's oldest undergradaute drama troupe -- on January 27.
MSNBC Eyeing Alec Baldwin for Hosting Duties?...
"I haven't signed any contract but I gave them my commitment verbally," says the star, who'll turn 80 this year. "I just told them I'd do it and my word's good!"
Skins creator responds to criticisms
"Skins is a very simple and in fact rather old fashioned television series. It's about the lives and loves of teenagers, how they get through high school, how they deal with their friends, and also how they circumnavigate some of the complications of sex, relationships, educations, parents, drugs and alcohol. The show is written from the perspective of teenagers, reflects their world view, and this has caused a degree of controversy both in the UK and the USA."
Julianne Moore to Receive Harvard's Hasty Pudding Award
The actress will be roasted by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals -- the nation's oldest undergradaute drama troupe -- on January 27.
MSNBC Eyeing Alec Baldwin for Hosting Duties?...
- 1/26/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Views (Sf Academia): The Disembodiment of Odo: Tyranny and Utopia in Le Guin's Dispossessed (part 3)
Part 3 (of 4)
read part 2 here
In “The Day Before the Revolution,” Odo herself rejects those who, during her life, believe she is something more than a woman. She thinks that they
"just came to look, as if she were the Great Tower in Rodarred, or the Canyon of the Tulaevea. A phenomenon, a monument. They were awed, adoring. She snarled at them: Think your own thoughts!—That’s not anarchism, that’s mere obscurantism.—You don’t think liberty and discipline are incompatible, do you?— They accepted their tonguelashing meekly as children, gratefully, as if she were some kind of All-Mother, the idol of the Big Sheltering Womb. She!" (416).
Odo wants to be regarded as a person, an individual. She does not want to be blindly followed, for her ideas to be etched in stone. Odo’s idea is to empower the individual to critically analyze, to not accept anyone...
read part 2 here
In “The Day Before the Revolution,” Odo herself rejects those who, during her life, believe she is something more than a woman. She thinks that they
"just came to look, as if she were the Great Tower in Rodarred, or the Canyon of the Tulaevea. A phenomenon, a monument. They were awed, adoring. She snarled at them: Think your own thoughts!—That’s not anarchism, that’s mere obscurantism.—You don’t think liberty and discipline are incompatible, do you?— They accepted their tonguelashing meekly as children, gratefully, as if she were some kind of All-Mother, the idol of the Big Sheltering Womb. She!" (416).
Odo wants to be regarded as a person, an individual. She does not want to be blindly followed, for her ideas to be etched in stone. Odo’s idea is to empower the individual to critically analyze, to not accept anyone...
- 5/13/2009
- doorQ.com
Part I (of 4)
The Disembodiment of Odo:
Tyranny and Utopia in The Dispossessed by Marjorie Jensen
“Every man has an Utopia in his head”
-Ignatius Donnelly
“All government in essence is tyranny”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Social and political structures in utopian literature range from monasticism and socialism to behaviorism and anarchism. The common thread in utopias—ancient to modern—is that they privilege one method of structuring society over all others. This privileging makes utopian thought tyrannical. As Chris Ferns says in “Dreams of Freedom”:
"The term “utopia,” of course, notoriously embodies a pun: Sir Thomas More’s coinage is deliberately ambiguous in its derivation. Its root may be taken either as ou-topos—“no place,” or eu-topos—“the good place.” Almost by definition, therefore, utopia is both a good place, an ideal society, yet at the same time one which does not exist" (Fern 453).
While More invented the specific term,...
The Disembodiment of Odo:
Tyranny and Utopia in The Dispossessed by Marjorie Jensen
“Every man has an Utopia in his head”
-Ignatius Donnelly
“All government in essence is tyranny”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Social and political structures in utopian literature range from monasticism and socialism to behaviorism and anarchism. The common thread in utopias—ancient to modern—is that they privilege one method of structuring society over all others. This privileging makes utopian thought tyrannical. As Chris Ferns says in “Dreams of Freedom”:
"The term “utopia,” of course, notoriously embodies a pun: Sir Thomas More’s coinage is deliberately ambiguous in its derivation. Its root may be taken either as ou-topos—“no place,” or eu-topos—“the good place.” Almost by definition, therefore, utopia is both a good place, an ideal society, yet at the same time one which does not exist" (Fern 453).
While More invented the specific term,...
- 4/23/2009
- doorQ.com
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