What will future generations make of the way in which dating moved from the world of the corporeal to the digital realm in the 21st century? Will the process of seduction by screen seem like an everyday thing to them? Will it reveal to them the birth of modernity or will it provide them with clues about why the century has been so marked by a lack of empathy? The true thing is they probably wouldn’t learn about it from the movies, because even though online dating is quite common, film hasn’t taken to it in the same way it took to meet-cutes or unrealistic happy endings.
Who can blame them? Would people prefer to see two guys meeting after they accidentally book the same rehearsal space and spill coffee over their white suits, or seeing them looking at their screens opening an app and waiting for someone to hit them up?...
Who can blame them? Would people prefer to see two guys meeting after they accidentally book the same rehearsal space and spill coffee over their white suits, or seeing them looking at their screens opening an app and waiting for someone to hit them up?...
- 6/30/2017
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
As Brad, a grief-stricken closeted gay man in upstate New York who becomes increasingly obsessed with a younger Jamaica man (Jimmy Brooks) he meets in an online meat market, Anthony Rapp (Star Trek: Discovery, Rent) is fantastic in writer-director John G. Young’s Bwoy. With a title based on the pronunciation of “boy” in Jamaican patois, the film at first seems like a story of online obfuscation, but it soon grows into a tense meditation on mourning and loss as we discover Brad bears some responsibility for the death of his son and remains in a marriage with Marcia (De’Adre Aziza) […]...
- 6/23/2017
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Museum of the Moving Image presents the exclusive New York theatrical engagement of bwoy, a suspenseful, deeply affecting, and sharply observed drama about erotic longing and emotional connection written and directed by John G. Young Parallel Sons, The Reception, Rivers Wash Over Me. Bwoy stars Anthony Rapp Rent, Star Trek Discovery, The Knick as a suburban man who becomes entangled in a chaotic, passionate online affair with Yenny, a young Jamaican man.
- 6/23/2017
- by Movies News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Museum of the Moving Image presents the exclusive New York theatrical engagement of bwoy, a suspenseful, deeply affecting, and sharply observed drama about erotic longing and emotional connection written and directed by John G. Young Parallel Sons, The Reception, Rivers Wash Over Me. Bwoy stars Anthony Rapp Rent, Star Trek Discovery, The Knick as a suburban man who becomes entangled in a chaotic, passionate online affair with Yenny, a young Jamaican man.
- 6/8/2017
- by Movies News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Writer-director John G. Young’s fourth microbudgeted feature, taking its title from Jamaican patois for “boy,” uses the seemingly simplest of setups, an online hookup, to explore a rich complex of identity, sex, race and class. Centered on absorbing performances by Anthony Rapp and Jimmy Brooks as intimate strangers, bwoy plays out in large part on smartphone and computer screens. But circumstances that might have been static in less skilled hands are given tantalizing life by Young, the actors and the deft camerawork of cinematographer Ryan Balas. The drama, which opens theatrically in Los Angeles after festival and special series...
- 3/25/2017
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Factory 25 has announced tody that it has acquired the U.S. rights to the multiple festival award-winning “Ma.” The film first screened at the Tribeca Film Festival as a work in progress screening and Tribeca, and it went on to screen at Venice for its official premiere, where it played at Venice Days as part of the Tribeca Film Festival exchange. The film is Rowlson-Hall’s feature directorial debut which, in addition to writing and choreographing, she also plays the leading role in.
Rowlson-Hall previously served as a choreographer for such directors as Lena Dunham, Gaspar Noe, and musical artists Alicia Keys, Mgmt, Sleigh Bells, and Chromeo. She was also the movement coach for the 2016 Spirit Award nominated film,...
– Factory 25 has announced tody that it has acquired the U.S. rights to the multiple festival award-winning “Ma.” The film first screened at the Tribeca Film Festival as a work in progress screening and Tribeca, and it went on to screen at Venice for its official premiere, where it played at Venice Days as part of the Tribeca Film Festival exchange. The film is Rowlson-Hall’s feature directorial debut which, in addition to writing and choreographing, she also plays the leading role in.
Rowlson-Hall previously served as a choreographer for such directors as Lena Dunham, Gaspar Noe, and musical artists Alicia Keys, Mgmt, Sleigh Bells, and Chromeo. She was also the movement coach for the 2016 Spirit Award nominated film,...
- 12/2/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Australian screen icon and star of awards season contender Lion will collect the honour at the 28th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival’s awards gala on January 2.
Lion follows a young man adopted by an Australian couple who tracks down his biological family in India years after he was separated from them. Dev Patel and David Wenham also star in the film released in the Us by The Weinstein Company.
Kidman received the festival’s Chairman’s Award in 2005. Previous International Star Award honourees include Helen Mirren, Javier Bardem and Saoirse Ronan.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired worldwide rights from Preferred Content to John Papola’s At The Fork and has partnered with Whole Foods Market and The Humane Society Of The United States on the release of the farm-to-plate documentary, set to open on select digital platforms on December 27 and on VOD, digital and DVD on January 3 at participating Whole Foods Market locations. [link...
Lion follows a young man adopted by an Australian couple who tracks down his biological family in India years after he was separated from them. Dev Patel and David Wenham also star in the film released in the Us by The Weinstein Company.
Kidman received the festival’s Chairman’s Award in 2005. Previous International Star Award honourees include Helen Mirren, Javier Bardem and Saoirse Ronan.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired worldwide rights from Preferred Content to John Papola’s At The Fork and has partnered with Whole Foods Market and The Humane Society Of The United States on the release of the farm-to-plate documentary, set to open on select digital platforms on December 27 and on VOD, digital and DVD on January 3 at participating Whole Foods Market locations. [link...
- 11/28/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"The Films of Rita Hayworth"
Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
A collection of five of the brunette bombshell's films -- the 1944 Gene Kelly musical "Cover Girl" and her most famous film "Gilda," as well as the 1945 musical "Tonight and Every Night," "Miss Sadie Thompson" and "Salome," which are making their first appearance on DVD -- with introductions by Martin Scorsese on "Tonight and Every Night," Baz Luhrmann on "Cover Girl" and Patricia Clarkson on "Miss Sadie Thompson," the original trailers for each of the films and a featurette with Scorsese and Luhrmann comparing notes on "Gilda."
"Angel"
Directed by François Ozon
Released by Mpi Home Video
It's been a long journey for French filmmaker Ozon's first fully-English film - he's already made three others since "Angel" premiered at Berlinale in 2007, but it boasts a bunch of big names including Michael Fassbender,...
"The Films of Rita Hayworth"
Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
A collection of five of the brunette bombshell's films -- the 1944 Gene Kelly musical "Cover Girl" and her most famous film "Gilda," as well as the 1945 musical "Tonight and Every Night," "Miss Sadie Thompson" and "Salome," which are making their first appearance on DVD -- with introductions by Martin Scorsese on "Tonight and Every Night," Baz Luhrmann on "Cover Girl" and Patricia Clarkson on "Miss Sadie Thompson," the original trailers for each of the films and a featurette with Scorsese and Luhrmann comparing notes on "Gilda."
"Angel"
Directed by François Ozon
Released by Mpi Home Video
It's been a long journey for French filmmaker Ozon's first fully-English film - he's already made three others since "Angel" premiered at Berlinale in 2007, but it boasts a bunch of big names including Michael Fassbender,...
- 12/20/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Indie Roundup is your guide to what's new and upcoming in the wonderful world of independent film. Pictured above: Made in Dagenham, Rivers Wash Over Me, The Lost Son of Havana.
Deals. To get your mind off tax day, why not think about strong British women walking out of a automobile plant in the 1960s to demand equal pay? Made in Dagenham dramatizes the true story, with Rosamund Pike, Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, and Bob Hopkins in starring roles. Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls) directed. Sony Classics has acquired distribution rights, according to our friends at indieWIRE. Release plans have not yet been announced.
A Brooklyn teen moves to rural Alabama and causes a sensation! Or, gets quickly embroiled in domestic turmoil, if you prefer the official wording, in John G. Young's Rivers Wash Over Me, which has been picked up by Strand Releasing. The film will receive a limited release beginning in late May.
Deals. To get your mind off tax day, why not think about strong British women walking out of a automobile plant in the 1960s to demand equal pay? Made in Dagenham dramatizes the true story, with Rosamund Pike, Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson, and Bob Hopkins in starring roles. Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls) directed. Sony Classics has acquired distribution rights, according to our friends at indieWIRE. Release plans have not yet been announced.
A Brooklyn teen moves to rural Alabama and causes a sensation! Or, gets quickly embroiled in domestic turmoil, if you prefer the official wording, in John G. Young's Rivers Wash Over Me, which has been picked up by Strand Releasing. The film will receive a limited release beginning in late May.
- 4/15/2010
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
Strand Releasing has picked up North American rights to "Rivers Wash over Me" written by John G. Young. The story focuses on a 15-year-old Brooklyn native who is sent to live with his aunt in rural Alabama. Darien Sills Evans, Derrick L. Middleton and Elizabeth Dennis star. They'll be releasing it to limited theaters in late May or perhaps early June some time. Strand distributed Young's 1995 film "Parallel Sons" on the home entertainment front and has all rights for "The Reception" which was released in 2005. Strand co-president Jon Gerrans negotiated the deal directly with Young.
- 4/15/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to John G. Young's "Rivers Wash Over Me." The film - which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature from Reeling, the Chicago Lgbt film festival and the Best Acting Award from Outfest - follows a fifteen-year-old from Brooklyn who is sent to live with his aunt in rural Alabama only to encounter domestic turmoil as a result of his arrival. The ...
- 4/14/2010
- Indiewire
The 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, announced films in four competitive categories Wednesday. The festival, which runs April 19-May 1 in Lower Manhattan, will feature fictional films and documentaries in two categories, dubbed NY, NY Narrative Features and NY, NY Documentary Features. The fictional features, which range from dramas focusing on the effects of 9/11 to slapstick comedy and suburban tales, include: Adam & Steve, directed by Craig Chester; Alchemy, Evan Oppenheimer; Bittersweet Place, Alexandra Brodsky; Conventioneers, Mora Stephens; The F Word, Jed Weintrob; Four Lane Highway, Dylan McCormick; Great New Wonderful, Danny Leiner; Laura Smiles, Jason Ruscio; Life on the Ledge, Lewis Helfer; Love, Vladan Nikolic; Puzzlehead, James Bai; The Reception, John G. Young; Red Doors, Georgia Lee; Rockaway, Mark Street; Satellite, Jeff Winner; and Slingshot, Jay Alaimo.
- 3/10/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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