Rock fans are in luck: This week’s digital releases involve Sonic Youth, Indigo Girls, and The Beatles. Get ready for a toe-tapping triple feature.
The contender to watch this week: “Uncropped”
A perfect companion piece to “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” Tricia Romano‘s new book about the history of The Village Voice, “Uncropped” profiles one of the iconoclastic newspaper’s signature photographers. James Hamilton captured the streets of New York, musicians like Patti Smith and the Beastie Boys, wartime conflicts in China and the Philippines, and production stills for the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Wes Anderson. His juicy career is detailed in this unconventional documentary directed by D.W. Young (“The Booksellers”), who stages a handful of intimate conversations between Hamilton and his collaborators, including Anderson and Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore. Following a limited theatrical release in April, “Uncropped” is available on VOD.
Other contenders:...
The contender to watch this week: “Uncropped”
A perfect companion piece to “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” Tricia Romano‘s new book about the history of The Village Voice, “Uncropped” profiles one of the iconoclastic newspaper’s signature photographers. James Hamilton captured the streets of New York, musicians like Patti Smith and the Beastie Boys, wartime conflicts in China and the Philippines, and production stills for the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Wes Anderson. His juicy career is detailed in this unconventional documentary directed by D.W. Young (“The Booksellers”), who stages a handful of intimate conversations between Hamilton and his collaborators, including Anderson and Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore. Following a limited theatrical release in April, “Uncropped” is available on VOD.
Other contenders:...
- 5/11/2024
- by Matthew Jacobs
- Gold Derby
Wes Anderson’s favorite on-set still photographer James Hamilton with 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on his Village Works exhibition: “They have a display of eight of my photographs, good size prints, including Lou Reed and John Cale and Pattie Smith and Tom Verlaine and Prince and Debbie Harry.”
In the first instalment with photojournalist James Hamilton, Wes Anderson’s favourite on-set still photographer (James is also the voice of Mole in Fantastic Mr. Fox and makes an appearance in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou), we start out discussing Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Grace Kelly’s Mark Cross bag, the Albert Hotel, Harper’s Bazaar, and everything else that James Stewart’s Lb Jeffries eerily has in common with the subject of Dw Young’s surprisingly candid Uncropped (a highlight and centerpiece selection of the 14th edition of Doc NYC).
James Hamilton on Alfred Hitchcock at the St.
In the first instalment with photojournalist James Hamilton, Wes Anderson’s favourite on-set still photographer (James is also the voice of Mole in Fantastic Mr. Fox and makes an appearance in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou), we start out discussing Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Grace Kelly’s Mark Cross bag, the Albert Hotel, Harper’s Bazaar, and everything else that James Stewart’s Lb Jeffries eerily has in common with the subject of Dw Young’s surprisingly candid Uncropped (a highlight and centerpiece selection of the 14th edition of Doc NYC).
James Hamilton on Alfred Hitchcock at the St.
- 5/5/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Any photographer who shoots what’s happening in the gleaming, raw, people-packed carnival of New York City — the stores and walls and towers and alleyways, the celebrities, the endless cross-section of humanity — already has an artistic leg up. But the other leg is what he or she does with it. Weegee shot the violent night world of sin and crime. Diane Arbus captured the hidden freak show and showed us its humanity. Alfred Eisenstaedt and William Klein caught the hurly-burly of the everyday. But as you watch “Uncropped,” an addictive look at the life and work of the magazine and newspaper photographer James Hamilton, you may think: He’s the greatest New York photographer of them all.
Hamilton’s black-and-white images — in the documentary, we see hundreds of them — have a burnished tactility, and a psychology so effortless that every one of them tells a story. The photographs are gallery beautiful,...
Hamilton’s black-and-white images — in the documentary, we see hundreds of them — have a burnished tactility, and a psychology so effortless that every one of them tells a story. The photographs are gallery beautiful,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
James Hamilton is an iconic chronicler of New York City culture, a photographer who, throughout his career, has captured the likes of Charles Mingus, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Meryl Streep, Alfred Hitchcock, Liza Minnelli, and Wes Anderson. Now, he gets the documentary treatment in the film “Uncropped,” directed by D.W. Young and executive-produced by Wes Anderson himself. IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer below.
“Uncropped” also turns its focus on the heyday of alternative print journalism in New York. Hamilton was best known for his photographs of the art and music scene in NYC throughout the ’70s and ’80s while working as a staffer at Crawdaddy, The New York Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and the New York Observer. The film also tracks his career and life beginning in his early days at Pratt in Brooklyn, then an apprenticeship where he learned how to shoot,...
“Uncropped” also turns its focus on the heyday of alternative print journalism in New York. Hamilton was best known for his photographs of the art and music scene in NYC throughout the ’70s and ’80s while working as a staffer at Crawdaddy, The New York Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and the New York Observer. The film also tracks his career and life beginning in his early days at Pratt in Brooklyn, then an apprenticeship where he learned how to shoot,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Even if you don’t know James Hamilton’s name, you probably recognize some of his images. Over a career that has spanned seven decades and seen his work published in Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Observer, New York Magazine and The Village Voice, Hamilton has photographed music and film superstars, legendary directors, notorious criminals and powerful politicians, as well as wars, famines and revolutions.
Hamilton is also humble to a fault, making him a perfect focal subject for D.W. Young’s new documentary Uncropped. Ostensibly a biography of and tribute to Hamilton’s life and work, Uncropped is most interesting when it uses its subject as a bit of a Trojan horse. Yes, Uncropped achieves its goal of raising Hamilton’s profile and celebrating the genius within his work. But that’s probably only the level on which it’s third or fourth most successful — behind serving as...
Hamilton is also humble to a fault, making him a perfect focal subject for D.W. Young’s new documentary Uncropped. Ostensibly a biography of and tribute to Hamilton’s life and work, Uncropped is most interesting when it uses its subject as a bit of a Trojan horse. Yes, Uncropped achieves its goal of raising Hamilton’s profile and celebrating the genius within his work. But that’s probably only the level on which it’s third or fourth most successful — behind serving as...
- 11/13/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This elegant exploration of journalism and vision slowly reveals New York and its cultural influence through the eyes of one of its most prolific photographers. As his black-and-white stills are reevaluated in a new historical context, James Hamilton's thoughts guide the viewer through five decades of political change. His aesthetic is distinct, captivating and still relevant, displaying an attitude that deeply cares about how his subjects look and feel in front of his camera.
Through a massive collage of images, director Dw Young digs into a collection which bore witness to different waves of counterculture, from hippies to punks and marginalized gangs. Hamilton's shots are formal but never boring. He stresses the importance of composition in his work. He doesn't judge and strives to take his pictures truthfully. The subject is front and centre, similar to how he stands as the main subject of the documentary. From this position,...
Through a massive collage of images, director Dw Young digs into a collection which bore witness to different waves of counterculture, from hippies to punks and marginalized gangs. Hamilton's shots are formal but never boring. He stresses the importance of composition in his work. He doesn't judge and strives to take his pictures truthfully. The subject is front and centre, similar to how he stands as the main subject of the documentary. From this position,...
- 11/12/2023
- by Sergiu Inizian
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
James Hamilton has lived an envious life. As staff photographer at Crawdaddy, The New York Herald, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, and The New York Observer, Hamilton chronicled the faces of New York culture, from Meryl Streep and Liza Minnelli to Jean-Luc Godard and Wes Anderson. One balmy night in 1980, I witnessed Hamilton shooting the iconic photo of Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York,” standing under the Statue of Liberty.
During the pandemic Hamilton began posting his gorgeous black-and-white photographs on his Facebook page on the celebrity’s birthday. He’s now in the habit. “Every day, it seems there’s someone I’ve photographed,” he said. And he owns his own photos. After he saw the art department at Harper’s Bazaar throwing out negatives, he possessively held his work close. He would happily stay up late at night inhaling photo-chemicals...
During the pandemic Hamilton began posting his gorgeous black-and-white photographs on his Facebook page on the celebrity’s birthday. He’s now in the habit. “Every day, it seems there’s someone I’ve photographed,” he said. And he owns his own photos. After he saw the art department at Harper’s Bazaar throwing out negatives, he possessively held his work close. He would happily stay up late at night inhaling photo-chemicals...
- 11/11/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Directed by D.W.Young, ’Uncropped’ rediscovers the work of a New York photographer billed as one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America
Vienna-based Autlook Filmsales has acquired world rights, excluding the US and Canada, for the feature-length documentary Uncropped, exec produced by Wes Anderson, in advance of the film receiving its world premiere as the Centerpiece presentation of the Doc NYC festival on November 11.
Directed by D.W. Young, whose credits includeThe Booksellers, the film rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of the US. Working as a...
Vienna-based Autlook Filmsales has acquired world rights, excluding the US and Canada, for the feature-length documentary Uncropped, exec produced by Wes Anderson, in advance of the film receiving its world premiere as the Centerpiece presentation of the Doc NYC festival on November 11.
Directed by D.W. Young, whose credits includeThe Booksellers, the film rediscovers the work of James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of the US. Working as a...
- 11/9/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The 2023 Doc NYC lineup has officially been announced.
The program for the 14th annual festival includes opening night selection “The Contestant,” a real-life “Truman Show”-esque story of a Japanese comedian who was trapped alone and naked in an apartment for 15 months as part of a reality TV show. The only twist? The comedian had no idea he was being filmed. Clair Titley directs the stranger-than-fiction documentary which premiered at TIFF.
Doc NYC runs from November 8 through 26, featuring 30 world premieres and 26 U.S. premieres with more than 200 films programmed. New films from Wim Wenders, Penny Lane, Dawn Porter, and Jeff Zimbalist are among the lineup for America’s largest documentary festival, with screenings at New York City’s IFC Center, Sva Theatre, and Village East by Angelika. In-person screenings take place November 8 through 16, with online selections available through November 26.
The centerpiece screening is the world premiere of D.W. Young’s...
The program for the 14th annual festival includes opening night selection “The Contestant,” a real-life “Truman Show”-esque story of a Japanese comedian who was trapped alone and naked in an apartment for 15 months as part of a reality TV show. The only twist? The comedian had no idea he was being filmed. Clair Titley directs the stranger-than-fiction documentary which premiered at TIFF.
Doc NYC runs from November 8 through 26, featuring 30 world premieres and 26 U.S. premieres with more than 200 films programmed. New films from Wim Wenders, Penny Lane, Dawn Porter, and Jeff Zimbalist are among the lineup for America’s largest documentary festival, with screenings at New York City’s IFC Center, Sva Theatre, and Village East by Angelika. In-person screenings take place November 8 through 16, with online selections available through November 26.
The centerpiece screening is the world premiere of D.W. Young’s...
- 10/12/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.) The Movie: The Booksellers Where You Can Stream It: Amazon Prime Video The Pitch: Director/producer/editor D.W. Young takes his camera into the world of antiquarian and rare book dealers in New York City, […]
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- 2/22/2021
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
‘The Booksellers’ directed by D.W. Young
During this time of Covid when theaters are closed, the release of ‘The Booksellers’ was severly curtailed, and the joy of these book…
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During this time of Covid when theaters are closed, the release of ‘The Booksellers’ was severly curtailed, and the joy of these book…
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- 1/7/2021
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Director D.W. Young’s documentary, The Booksellers, began streaming on various virtual cinema screens back on Friday, April 17 and has finally made its Detroit debut via the same medium at the Detroit Institute of Arts and those who seek it out will find it to be a thought-provoking treatise on the decline of the eclectic world of rare book dealers and the effects that could have on the material you read moving forward.
The film is introduced by actress Parker Posey, who also serves as executive producer, and then moves briskly along with interviews with luminaries in the field of antiquarian book like Fran Lebowitz and Gay Talese, as well as vignette after vignette of beguiling stories of booksellers, both young and old, who recount how they first got into the business of finding, collecting, and selling books.
Director Young—a veteran film editor, with over fifty credits dating back...
The film is introduced by actress Parker Posey, who also serves as executive producer, and then moves briskly along with interviews with luminaries in the field of antiquarian book like Fran Lebowitz and Gay Talese, as well as vignette after vignette of beguiling stories of booksellers, both young and old, who recount how they first got into the business of finding, collecting, and selling books.
Director Young—a veteran film editor, with over fifty credits dating back...
- 5/10/2020
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Film at Lincoln Center has revealed a slate of April and May “openings” in its upcoming Flc Virtual Cinema.
The streaming rentals, a mix of festival titles, commercial releases and catalog fare, range from $10 to $12, some with member discounts. Half of all proceeds will benefit the storied New York film organization.
During the lockdown of Covid-19, with the disease disproportionately affecting New York City, film and the rest of Lincoln Center’s artistic and cultural offerings have taken a significant hit. The Metropolitan Opera, for example, is now reported to be tens of millions of dollars in the hole after canceling its season.
The streaming rentals, a mix of festival titles, commercial releases and catalog fare, range from $10 to $12, some with member discounts. Half of all proceeds will benefit the storied New York film organization.
During the lockdown of Covid-19, with the disease disproportionately affecting New York City, film and the rest of Lincoln Center’s artistic and cultural offerings have taken a significant hit. The Metropolitan Opera, for example, is now reported to be tens of millions of dollars in the hole after canceling its season.
- 4/21/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp is going from the world of the Upside Down to world of the culinary arts in the newly released comedy Abe from Brazilian director Fernando Grostein Andrade.
The film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last year, features Schnapp as the food-obsessed titular pre-teen Abe — although that is not his only name. The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram while the Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. Meanwhile, his first-Generation agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. Then there are the readers of his food blog that know him simply as Abe.
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The film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last year, features Schnapp as the food-obsessed titular pre-teen Abe — although that is not his only name. The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him Avram while the Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. Meanwhile, his first-Generation agnostic lawyer parents call him Abraham. Then there are the readers of his food blog that know him simply as Abe.
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- 4/17/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Following its successful opening week in New York in early March, Greenwich Entertainment is pleased to announce that The Booksellers, D.W. Young’s lively, behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world and the fascinating people who inhabit it, will launch in Los Angeles on Friday, April 17 as part of the distributor’s new virtual cinema initiative.
Greenwich is partnering with Los Angeles movie theaters that are currently closed because of the coronavirus outbreak so their patrons can watch The Booksellers and support their local cinemas during this difficult time. Theaters participating in the virtual cinema initiative are the Laemmle Royal, Laemmle Monica, Laemmle Town Center 5, Laemmle Noho 7, Laemmle Glendale, and Laemmle Playhouse 7. Information and tickets available at BooksellersMovie.com
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history.
Greenwich is partnering with Los Angeles movie theaters that are currently closed because of the coronavirus outbreak so their patrons can watch The Booksellers and support their local cinemas during this difficult time. Theaters participating in the virtual cinema initiative are the Laemmle Royal, Laemmle Monica, Laemmle Town Center 5, Laemmle Noho 7, Laemmle Glendale, and Laemmle Playhouse 7. Information and tickets available at BooksellersMovie.com
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history.
- 4/7/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Several Sundance titles included in acquisitions haul.
Scandinavian distributor NonStop Entertainment has acquired 10 new documentaries for digital and theatrical release.
Given the ongoing situation with closed cinemas due to the coronavirus outbreak, NonStop will evaluate release plans for each film in Scandinavia and the Baltics at a later date. The company’s documentary acquisitions include six films that played at Sundance.
They are:
Welcome to Chechnya, David France’s look at Lgbt refugees from the Russian republic, acquired from Submarine;
Assassins, Ryan White’s story of how two women were duped into killing Kim Jong-nam, cquired from Magnolia Pictures International...
Scandinavian distributor NonStop Entertainment has acquired 10 new documentaries for digital and theatrical release.
Given the ongoing situation with closed cinemas due to the coronavirus outbreak, NonStop will evaluate release plans for each film in Scandinavia and the Baltics at a later date. The company’s documentary acquisitions include six films that played at Sundance.
They are:
Welcome to Chechnya, David France’s look at Lgbt refugees from the Russian republic, acquired from Submarine;
Assassins, Ryan White’s story of how two women were duped into killing Kim Jong-nam, cquired from Magnolia Pictures International...
- 4/1/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
There was a stampede of new titles opening this weekend at the specialty box office, and despite coronavirus-induced fears of being in close proximity in theaters, there weren’t any glaring slumps in the indie and arthouse space. Of the films released this weekend, First Cow made some moo-ves at the box office, earning an estimated $96,059 with a per-theater average of $24,015. Not only is that an impressive debut for the A24 title, but it marks a career-high for the talented auteur Kelly Reichardt.
The period film about a prized bovine, starring John Magaro and Orion Lee, had four exclusive runs in New York at the AMC Lincoln Square and Angelika, as well as Los Angeles at the Arclight Hollywood and Landmark. The opening was a solid start for the film that will hopefully fuel the long roll-out that will continue into spring. Reichardt has been lauded for her intimate, cinematic...
The period film about a prized bovine, starring John Magaro and Orion Lee, had four exclusive runs in New York at the AMC Lincoln Square and Angelika, as well as Los Angeles at the Arclight Hollywood and Landmark. The opening was a solid start for the film that will hopefully fuel the long roll-out that will continue into spring. Reichardt has been lauded for her intimate, cinematic...
- 3/8/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
It may seem strange to suggest that the greatest discovery for bibliophiles this week is actually a movie. But as Maurice Sendak said, “There’s so much more to a book than just the reading.”
D.W. Young’s “The Booksellers” pays warm-hearted tribute to the reading, but also the shopping, the rifling, the obsessing, the complaining, the dreaming, the list-making, the shelf-organizing, and everything else book-lovers love to do.
Another one of those impulsive habits is the collecting of random and surprising facts, and we learn a great many of them in Young’s lovely documentary. But among the most notable is this: In the 1950s, there were 368 bookstores in New York City.
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368! Today, there are 79. And admit it: even that number now sounds surprisingly high. Once, there were nearly half that many on 4th Avenue alone.
D.W. Young’s “The Booksellers” pays warm-hearted tribute to the reading, but also the shopping, the rifling, the obsessing, the complaining, the dreaming, the list-making, the shelf-organizing, and everything else book-lovers love to do.
Another one of those impulsive habits is the collecting of random and surprising facts, and we learn a great many of them in Young’s lovely documentary. But among the most notable is this: In the 1950s, there were 368 bookstores in New York City.
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368! Today, there are 79. And admit it: even that number now sounds surprisingly high. Once, there were nearly half that many on 4th Avenue alone.
- 3/5/2020
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
While November and December are often considered the months in which films of the highest-quality films arrive (as award season demands), one could easily make the case for spring. It’s often the time of year when distributors unspool more daring, adventurous works that may not be tailor-made for Academy voters. To further fuel this notion, March brings three films in my current top five of the year thus far, and much more. Check out my recommendations below.
15. The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda; March 20)
Following his Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda used his newfound worldwide attention to shift gears with The Truth, a French- and English-language production (the Japanese director’s first) boasting the mightly impressive cast of Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke. Unfortunately, it’s not quite a knock-out as our Tiff review attests to, however, there are enough grace notes of performance to be found...
15. The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda; March 20)
Following his Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda used his newfound worldwide attention to shift gears with The Truth, a French- and English-language production (the Japanese director’s first) boasting the mightly impressive cast of Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke. Unfortunately, it’s not quite a knock-out as our Tiff review attests to, however, there are enough grace notes of performance to be found...
- 3/2/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
An official selection at the 57th New York Film Festival, The Booksellers documents the untold lives and routines of antique booksellers in New York City who work in multiple independent bookshops that used to litter the city before the advent of the internet changed the bookshop industry forever. Fittingly in the week we get major news in the world of NYC book stores, Greenwich Entertainment has now unveiled the first trailer for the documentary, directed by D.W. Young (The Happy House) in anticipation of a March release.
As we see in this preview, these sellers use their skills and passion to collect and preserve the world’s rarest books, and find along the way hope for the printed word through the voracious reading habits of younger generations. Owen Gleiberman in his review praised the film exclaiming, “The Booksellers is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream,...
As we see in this preview, these sellers use their skills and passion to collect and preserve the world’s rarest books, and find along the way hope for the printed word through the voracious reading habits of younger generations. Owen Gleiberman in his review praised the film exclaiming, “The Booksellers is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream,...
- 2/6/2020
- by Margaret Rasberry
- The Film Stage
"Collecting is about the hunt." Greenwich Ent. has released the official Us trailer for The Booksellers, a documentary made by D.W. Young that first premiered at the New York Film Festival last year. The film is a behind-the-scenes look at New York City's rare book world. "Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. [D.W. Young's film] The Booksellers takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers." This looks like an especially charming and geeky trip into the world of books. "For anyone who loves books, bookstores and the written word, D.W. Young's entrancing insider's entree into the charmingly esoteric world of book collecting and selling will be hard to put down." Jump in. Here's the...
- 2/2/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to D.W. Young’s The Booksellers. The documentary premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival. The film will have a limited release in March that will coincide with the annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
The docu is essentially an immersive and lively tour of New York’s book world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers. The film takes us everywhere from the Park Avenue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair to the iconic Strand and Argosy bookstore. The film features notable commentators including Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, as well as a community of dedicated book dealers and collectors.
“For anyone who loves books, bookstores and the written word, D.W. Young’s entrancing insider’s entree into the charmingly esoteric world of book collecting and selling will be hard to put down,...
The docu is essentially an immersive and lively tour of New York’s book world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers. The film takes us everywhere from the Park Avenue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair to the iconic Strand and Argosy bookstore. The film features notable commentators including Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, as well as a community of dedicated book dealers and collectors.
“For anyone who loves books, bookstores and the written word, D.W. Young’s entrancing insider’s entree into the charmingly esoteric world of book collecting and selling will be hard to put down,...
- 11/7/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s never a surprise to learn that the Internet has upended a business, or an entire industry. But in the lovely and wistful documentary “The Booksellers,” we hear one telling illustration of how the online universe has revolutionized the world of vintage books, and it’s an object lesson so fraught with irony that it’s a little head-spinning.
Imagine that it was, say, the early ’90s, and you were a rare-book maven with an impassioned, if not obsessive-compulsive, desire to accumulate a complete collection of the works of Edith Wharton, all in first editions. How would you do it? You’d go to vintage bookstores, attend auctions, work with a dealer. You’d gather your first editions one by one, over time, and the slow and steady hunt would be part of the pleasure.
But in the world of online book selling, where everything is catalogued and digitized,...
Imagine that it was, say, the early ’90s, and you were a rare-book maven with an impassioned, if not obsessive-compulsive, desire to accumulate a complete collection of the works of Edith Wharton, all in first editions. How would you do it? You’d go to vintage bookstores, attend auctions, work with a dealer. You’d gather your first editions one by one, over time, and the slow and steady hunt would be part of the pleasure.
But in the world of online book selling, where everything is catalogued and digitized,...
- 10/9/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The documentary lineup at the New York Film Festival showcases largely hidden worlds of the city and nearby environs.
When Tania Cypriano began filming Dr. Jess Ting at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital in 2017, he was one of only 40 surgeons in the United States who performed gender-confirming surgery.
“A lot of films about the trans experience have been made, but I wanted to make something new, that would speak to a larger audience,” says Cypriano, whose documentary is entitled “Born to Be.” “Learning what it is to be transgender, what is at stake and what the future of [these surgeries] looks like through Dr. Ting’s eyes was key.”
Ting and a handful of his patients allowed the director to film their surgeries. “We pitched the president of Mount Sinai, David Reich,” Cypriano says. “He looked at the documentary as an opportunity to show the public what Dr. Ting and his team were doing.
When Tania Cypriano began filming Dr. Jess Ting at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital in 2017, he was one of only 40 surgeons in the United States who performed gender-confirming surgery.
“A lot of films about the trans experience have been made, but I wanted to make something new, that would speak to a larger audience,” says Cypriano, whose documentary is entitled “Born to Be.” “Learning what it is to be transgender, what is at stake and what the future of [these surgeries] looks like through Dr. Ting’s eyes was key.”
Ting and a handful of his patients allowed the director to film their surgeries. “We pitched the president of Mount Sinai, David Reich,” Cypriano says. “He looked at the documentary as an opportunity to show the public what Dr. Ting and his team were doing.
- 9/25/2019
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Films on Merce Cunningham, Roy Cohn and Oliver Sacks are among the notable titles set for the Spotlight on Documentary lineup at the 57th New York Film Festival.
Alla Kovgan’s “Cunningham 3D” centers on dancer and choreographer Cunningham, who was at the forefront of American modern dance for half a century. The Cohn documentary “Bully. Coward. Victim” is directed by Ivy Meeropol, whose grandparents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were prosecuted by Cohn. Ric Burns’s “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life,” examines the British neurologist and author.
The Spotlight on Documentary also include Michael Apted’s “63 Up,” the ninth iteration of his “Up” series that followed the lives of 14 British children since 1964; Nick Broomfield’s “My Father and Me,” a portrait of his relationship with his father Maurice Broomfield; and Nicholas Ma’s short documentary “Suite No. 1, Prelude,” which captures the perfectionist tendencies of his father Yo-Yo Ma.
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Alla Kovgan’s “Cunningham 3D” centers on dancer and choreographer Cunningham, who was at the forefront of American modern dance for half a century. The Cohn documentary “Bully. Coward. Victim” is directed by Ivy Meeropol, whose grandparents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, were prosecuted by Cohn. Ric Burns’s “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life,” examines the British neurologist and author.
The Spotlight on Documentary also include Michael Apted’s “63 Up,” the ninth iteration of his “Up” series that followed the lives of 14 British children since 1964; Nick Broomfield’s “My Father and Me,” a portrait of his relationship with his father Maurice Broomfield; and Nicholas Ma’s short documentary “Suite No. 1, Prelude,” which captures the perfectionist tendencies of his father Yo-Yo Ma.
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- 8/21/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The New York Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled the lineup for its Spotlight on Documentary section, which include films from Nick Broomfield, Lynn Novick, Nicholas Ma, Nanni Moretti, Tim Robbins and Michael Apted and subjects ranging from dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham to Roy Cohn and Oliver Sacks.
Apted’s 63 Up, the ninth entry in his long-running film series, is making its U.S. debut at the fest, which runs September 27-October 13 and opens with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.
The full lineup also features six world premieres and five U.S. premieres.
Here’s the full slate:
45 Seconds of Laughter
Dir. Tim Robbins, USA, 95m
U.S. Premiere
A selected group of inmates at the Calipatria State maximum-security facility have convened for a highly unlikely workshop. In prison they normally segregate themselves by gang or by race, but here they are all mixed together, sitting in a circle.
Apted’s 63 Up, the ninth entry in his long-running film series, is making its U.S. debut at the fest, which runs September 27-October 13 and opens with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.
The full lineup also features six world premieres and five U.S. premieres.
Here’s the full slate:
45 Seconds of Laughter
Dir. Tim Robbins, USA, 95m
U.S. Premiere
A selected group of inmates at the Calipatria State maximum-security facility have convened for a highly unlikely workshop. In prison they normally segregate themselves by gang or by race, but here they are all mixed together, sitting in a circle.
- 8/21/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
City couple goes to remote B&B, weird shit happens—the only surprises in D.W. Young's tiny low-budget debut are how mildly he satirizes this thinnest of genres and how sincerely he treats his clichéd characters. Anemic hipster Khan Baykal and wiseacre girlfriend Aya Cash drive upstate for a relationship-repair weekend and land at the eponymous inn, where a Puritanical code of conduct prevails and the only other guest is a Swedish lepidopterist (Oliver Henzler). The punitive rationing of the world's greatest blueberry muffins is the primary dramatic fuel, until a third-act escaped psycho shows up. The low-boiling jokes about crazy country folk, cuckoo clocks, and menacing cutlery are treated as throwaways, as if Young didn't even think they were funny. This leaves the fully...
- 5/2/2013
- Village Voice
With another Wednesday hanging over our heads like a little black raincloud, we could all use a break to enjoy the happier things in life. You know, like independent horror flicks! Case in point: Check out your first look at The Happy House.
Directed by D.W. Young, this latest horror comedy stars Khan Baykal, Aya Cash, Marceline Hugot, Kathleen McNenny, Oliver Henzler, Mike Houston, Charles Borland, Stivi Paskoski, Curtis Shumaker, Leah Lawrence, and Luca B. Henzler.
Synopsis
A young Brooklyn couple whose relationship is on the rocks heads upstate to a remote B&B to work things out. The plan is ill-conceived from the start. Arriving at The Happy House, they soon begin to suspect they’ve wandered into a real life horror movie. From there events go from weird to terrifying as they contend with the house's batty owner, her imposing son, a moody Swedish lepidopterist, a pedantic English professor,...
Directed by D.W. Young, this latest horror comedy stars Khan Baykal, Aya Cash, Marceline Hugot, Kathleen McNenny, Oliver Henzler, Mike Houston, Charles Borland, Stivi Paskoski, Curtis Shumaker, Leah Lawrence, and Luca B. Henzler.
Synopsis
A young Brooklyn couple whose relationship is on the rocks heads upstate to a remote B&B to work things out. The plan is ill-conceived from the start. Arriving at The Happy House, they soon begin to suspect they’ve wandered into a real life horror movie. From there events go from weird to terrifying as they contend with the house's batty owner, her imposing son, a moody Swedish lepidopterist, a pedantic English professor,...
- 5/1/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Driving down any typical American suburban street — passing one front door after another, all lined up in perfect geometric harmony . a question crosses my mind. What exactly goes on beyond that door? Who are these people? What are their lives really like? Not the performances they put on for the rest of us to see, but their .real. lives.
My apologies, as I got off on a bit of a tangent, but this question resurfaced as I watched D.W. Young.s newest short film Not Interested. There.s an element of this curiosity that seeps through the surface of the story. D.W. Young is probably best known for his 2008 award-winning documentary A Hole In The Fence and his last short film Ami Underground.
Not Interested is a fairly straightforward story about a clueless slacker who sells. no, sorry. he .demonstrates. a fabulous line of high-end cutlery, door to door. The...
My apologies, as I got off on a bit of a tangent, but this question resurfaced as I watched D.W. Young.s newest short film Not Interested. There.s an element of this curiosity that seeps through the surface of the story. D.W. Young is probably best known for his 2008 award-winning documentary A Hole In The Fence and his last short film Ami Underground.
Not Interested is a fairly straightforward story about a clueless slacker who sells. no, sorry. he .demonstrates. a fabulous line of high-end cutlery, door to door. The...
- 3/13/2010
- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Diversity seems to be the key this year at the SXSW festival, which takes place in Austin, TX from March 12-20, as they’ve now announced the full lineup of Panels and short films that will be at this years event. As with the feature films schedule, this list of panels and shorts should provide an almost endless supply of diverse and interesting programming for attendees.
Following sre some highlights of panels we think are worth checking out. For a full list and descriptions, head over to the SXSW official site. Also, be sure to check back here at The Flickast as we’ll be at SXSW this year to bring you all the details on these great events and much more.
A Conversation with Michel Gondry
The stratospheric rise of Academy Award-winning visionary Michel Gondry is one of the great success stories of modern film. Working with fellow travelers like Spike Jonze,...
Following sre some highlights of panels we think are worth checking out. For a full list and descriptions, head over to the SXSW official site. Also, be sure to check back here at The Flickast as we’ll be at SXSW this year to bring you all the details on these great events and much more.
A Conversation with Michel Gondry
The stratospheric rise of Academy Award-winning visionary Michel Gondry is one of the great success stories of modern film. Working with fellow travelers like Spike Jonze,...
- 2/10/2010
- by Chris Ullrich
- The Flickcast
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival (March 12 - March 16, 2010) has announced the short film program and the list of panel participants. Michel Gondry, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill, Danny McBride, Ruben Fleischer, Matt Reeves, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, and Ti West are among the people scheduled to participate. The full list can be viewed at the provided link. As to the shorts program, the list is featured at the bottom of this post. The lineup is extensive, and full of unique films waiting to be discovered.
Comprehensive Short Films Lineup
Narrative Shorts
A selection of original, well-crafted films that take advantage of the short form and exemplify distinctive and genuine storytelling. The winner of our Grand Jury Award in this category is eligible for a 2011 Academy Award nomination for Best Narrative Short.
Anatinus
Director: David Wanger
A glimpse of the dawn of a strange new era.
Bedford Park Boulevard...
Comprehensive Short Films Lineup
Narrative Shorts
A selection of original, well-crafted films that take advantage of the short form and exemplify distinctive and genuine storytelling. The winner of our Grand Jury Award in this category is eligible for a 2011 Academy Award nomination for Best Narrative Short.
Anatinus
Director: David Wanger
A glimpse of the dawn of a strange new era.
Bedford Park Boulevard...
- 2/10/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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