Heavy-hitting holdovers Foxcatcher, The Theory Of Everything and Birdman were robust in expansion in the specialty release side of the box office this weekend. Meanwhile, a pair of limited-release newcomers, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and doc Monk With A Camera – both Kino Lorber releases – bowed with solid numbers.
A Girl, Ana Lily Amirpour’s self-described “Iranian vampire Western” that debuted at Sundance, opened in two theaters in New York and L.A., grossing $26K, for a $13K average.
Kino Lorber also opened Monk With A Camera, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara’s documentary, with an exclusive run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in an 85-seat theater that had sell-out showings. The film grossed $10K Friday to Sunday.
“We’ve been waiting for this dual break all year,” said Kino Lorber president Richard Lorber Sunday. “Both a girl and monk connect with core audiences for our … releasing labels.
A Girl, Ana Lily Amirpour’s self-described “Iranian vampire Western” that debuted at Sundance, opened in two theaters in New York and L.A., grossing $26K, for a $13K average.
Kino Lorber also opened Monk With A Camera, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara’s documentary, with an exclusive run at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in an 85-seat theater that had sell-out showings. The film grossed $10K Friday to Sunday.
“We’ve been waiting for this dual break all year,” said Kino Lorber president Richard Lorber Sunday. “Both a girl and monk connect with core audiences for our … releasing labels.
- 11/23/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
A long time in the making, Reach Me, from filmmaker/actor John Herzfeld brings ‘positive thinking’ and ‘self-help’ to the big screen. It stars a bevy of Herzfeld’s actor friends and friends of friends, including Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Connolly.
The title is one of a dozen or so newcomers opening in limited release this weekend. Music Box’s Happy Valley and Kino Lorber’s Monk With A Camera are among Friday’s debuting documentaries.
Happy Valley, named after the area where Pennsylvania State University is located, dives into the child sexual-abuse scandal that rocked Penn State, while Monk looks at an unlikely ascetic who gave up life in the fast lane.
Kino Lorber also is launching Iranian Western Vampire pic A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, which it is releasing with Vice Films. The title, which was born out of a previous short film, debuted at Sundance in January.
The title is one of a dozen or so newcomers opening in limited release this weekend. Music Box’s Happy Valley and Kino Lorber’s Monk With A Camera are among Friday’s debuting documentaries.
Happy Valley, named after the area where Pennsylvania State University is located, dives into the child sexual-abuse scandal that rocked Penn State, while Monk looks at an unlikely ascetic who gave up life in the fast lane.
Kino Lorber also is launching Iranian Western Vampire pic A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, which it is releasing with Vice Films. The title, which was born out of a previous short film, debuted at Sundance in January.
- 11/21/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Exclusive: Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has come on to represent three documentaries in the run-up to the Santa Monica market.
Daniel Junge is in post-production on Fight Church, which explores the confluence of Christianity and Mixed Martial arts at ministries that train fighters.
Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s Monk With A Camera follows Diana Vreeland’s grandson Nicholas as he evolves from jetsetter to reportedly the first Westerner to become a Buddhist abbot. Herwitz (pictured) also serves as executive producer.
The third project is Jody Lee Lipes’ work in progress about the New York City Ballet.
Herwitz served as executive producer on Let The Fire Burn, recipient this week of three Ida nominations, and was associate producer on the box office hit and awards contender Lee Daniels’ The Butler.
Daniel Junge is in post-production on Fight Church, which explores the confluence of Christianity and Mixed Martial arts at ministries that train fighters.
Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s Monk With A Camera follows Diana Vreeland’s grandson Nicholas as he evolves from jetsetter to reportedly the first Westerner to become a Buddhist abbot. Herwitz (pictured) also serves as executive producer.
The third project is Jody Lee Lipes’ work in progress about the New York City Ballet.
Herwitz served as executive producer on Let The Fire Burn, recipient this week of three Ida nominations, and was associate producer on the box office hit and awards contender Lee Daniels’ The Butler.
- 10/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
- Ballast might have lead the total number of nominations, but it is Frozen River who picked up a pair, including Gotham Awards’ top prize. Really? If I were a betting man I’d have guessed right in two categories (Breakthrough Director and Actor), guessed half right in one (Best Ensemble) and would have terribly been wrong but pleasantly surprised with the Best Documentary going to Trouble the Water, and finally I’d would have been wrong on guessing Best Feature, and as you can guess, I’m perplexed on how Courtney Hunt’s border crossing drama faired a better chance in a category that was loaded in quality features. Best FEATUREBallast - Lance Hammer, director; Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh, producers (Alluvial Film Company)Frozen River - Courtney Hunt, director; Heather Rae, Chip Hourihan, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman, director; Anthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze,
- 12/3/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
New York -- The Ifp's 18th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards unofficially kicked off the awards season with its 22 nominees Monday, and in a move fitting for the indie film world, the top honoree is a filmmaker who rejected a traditional distribution deal.
Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River," Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York," Tom McCarthy's "The Visitor," Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" and Lance Hammer's "Ballast" earned best feature nominations.
"Ballast," which the director sold to IFC Films before taking it back for self-distribution, garnered the most noms: breakthrough director, breakthrough actor and best ensemble performance. Sony Pictures Classics topped the list of honored distributors with five nominations.
"River," "Synecdoche" and "Visitor" each earned the Gothams' top acting nomination for best ensemble performance, along with Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married" and Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." All five films and Antonio Campos' "Afterschool" received the next highest number,...
Courtney Hunt's "Frozen River," Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York," Tom McCarthy's "The Visitor," Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" and Lance Hammer's "Ballast" earned best feature nominations.
"Ballast," which the director sold to IFC Films before taking it back for self-distribution, garnered the most noms: breakthrough director, breakthrough actor and best ensemble performance. Sony Pictures Classics topped the list of honored distributors with five nominations.
"River," "Synecdoche" and "Visitor" each earned the Gothams' top acting nomination for best ensemble performance, along with Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married" and Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." All five films and Antonio Campos' "Afterschool" received the next highest number,...
- 10/20/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- The Ifp announced the nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and not surprisingly, it is Lance Hammer’s Ballast that came out on top with four noms: Best Feature, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor and Best Ensemble Performance. Hammer’s eloquent rendering of a fractured family tree is such a solid film that we can expect a repeat pattern in nominations for the Indie Spirit Awards. While nominations in many of the categories hold up well (Best Ensemble and both Breakthrough categories), it is the Best Feature category’s exclusion of Antonio Campos’ Afterschool and Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop and the inclusion of The Visitor and Frozen River that makes me wonder if the four person nominating committee had a different mandate for their selection process. While McCarthy’s film certainly has a collection of strong moments and Frozen River counts on a fine white-trash perf from Leo,
- 10/20/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Chris & Don: A Love Story
Featuring Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, and Michael York
Directed by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara
Not Rated
Love comes in many forms, but a lifelong love like this is rare for a number of reasons. It does no good to talk about Chris & Don: A Love Story without acknowledging that when their relationship began, English writer Christopher Isherwood was in his late forties and Don Bachardy was 18. Or so.
Once you get over whatever feelings that causes, this new documentary unfolds fairly amiably. Isherwood’s writing made him a sort of celebrity in the Golden Age of Hollywood, which was also the Dark Ages of Hollywood Homosexuality. Very few important members of the entertainment industry were out of the closet then, and to prove he was, Isherwood would spend the next 40 years or so with a lover more than young enough to be his son.
Featuring Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, and Michael York
Directed by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara
Not Rated
Love comes in many forms, but a lifelong love like this is rare for a number of reasons. It does no good to talk about Chris & Don: A Love Story without acknowledging that when their relationship began, English writer Christopher Isherwood was in his late forties and Don Bachardy was 18. Or so.
Once you get over whatever feelings that causes, this new documentary unfolds fairly amiably. Isherwood’s writing made him a sort of celebrity in the Golden Age of Hollywood, which was also the Dark Ages of Hollywood Homosexuality. Very few important members of the entertainment industry were out of the closet then, and to prove he was, Isherwood would spend the next 40 years or so with a lover more than young enough to be his son.
- 8/29/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Fairly across the board (other than for the occasional sour grape), Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s affectionate documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story has been favorably received by critics and public alike. Following my first write-up on the film during Frameline 32, Dave Hudson at The Greencine Daily has—of course—compiled an aggregate of the film’s critical response, which continues through its ongoing theatrical distribution.
I took ill during Frameline 32 when Don Bachardy was in town granting press interviews, so I especially appreciated his taking time to talk with me recently by phone. My thanks to Karen Larsen for arranging same. Photographic portrait of Don Bachardy courtesy of Kevin Scanlon, L.A. Times.
I took ill during Frameline 32 when Don Bachardy was in town granting press interviews, so I especially appreciated his taking time to talk with me recently by phone. My thanks to Karen Larsen for arranging same. Photographic portrait of Don Bachardy courtesy of Kevin Scanlon, L.A. Times.
- 7/22/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin during the Weimar Republic era and later wrote about that time in a bestselling short-story collection adapted into the plays and films I Am A Camera and Cabaret. Isherwood considered his Berlin years one of the few times that he felt "free" as gay man in a gay-unfriendly era. He left Germany before Hitler took full command, and found his way to Hollywood, where he worked on scripts, socialized with movie stars, and immersed himself in Los Angeles' nascent—and still largely secret—gay culture. And then he met Don Bachardy, a slight, handsome teenage beach bum who charmed Isherwood with his naïveté and boyish enthusiasm. They become instant companions, and Isherwood was so comfortable having Bachardy around that he once again found the freedom of Berlin in this new community of two. Tina Mascara and Guido Santi's documentary Chris & Don. A Love Story recounts.
- 6/19/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
On offer this week is a veritable gallery of the eclectic and the eccentric as M. Night Shyamalan goes R-rated, Edward Norton goes green, Werner Herzog goes to the Antarctic, and two of Herzog's fellow countrymen go to California to climb a big rock very, very quickly.
"Beauty in Trouble"
Czech director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský continue their longtime collaborative partnership with this dense ensemble drama loosely inspired by Robert Graves's poem of the same name. This time, the duo who balanced humor with drama in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust-set "Divided We Fall," turn to the devastating series of floods that swept Prague in 2002, and tell the story of Marcela (Anna Geislerová), an overworked mother of two living in squalor. When her ne'er do well husband is taken in by the police, she's courted by a well-to-do businessman (Josef Abrhám) and Marcela is forced to...
On offer this week is a veritable gallery of the eclectic and the eccentric as M. Night Shyamalan goes R-rated, Edward Norton goes green, Werner Herzog goes to the Antarctic, and two of Herzog's fellow countrymen go to California to climb a big rock very, very quickly.
"Beauty in Trouble"
Czech director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský continue their longtime collaborative partnership with this dense ensemble drama loosely inspired by Robert Graves's poem of the same name. This time, the duo who balanced humor with drama in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust-set "Divided We Fall," turn to the devastating series of floods that swept Prague in 2002, and tell the story of Marcela (Anna Geislerová), an overworked mother of two living in squalor. When her ne'er do well husband is taken in by the police, she's courted by a well-to-do businessman (Josef Abrhám) and Marcela is forced to...
- 6/9/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
- Tucked away in the fresh air mountains of Telluride, Colorado is the 4 day film festival of gnarly indie, foreign film titles. Commencing today, this year appears to be a slim pickings in terms of anything fresh and not showing at either Toronto or Venice. Instead this year's bunch pulls from the quality titles at this past Cannes edition. Many were saying that Paul thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood would preem there - and there is always a chance especially with a Daniel Day Lewis tribute occurring. Known as the festival of blind faith (cuz you don,t know what film you'll be necessarily seeing, don't be shocked if they pull out some surprises. Here are some of the title listing for this year's edition: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 DaysThe Band's VisitA Thousand Years of Good PrayersThe CounterfeitersPersepolisWhen Did You Last See Your Father?
- 8/31/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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