You may not know Miranda Bailey’s name, but you probably know her work. As an actress, writer, director and producer, Miranda Bailey has a hand in just about every aspect of the independent film business. Early in her career, she executive produced Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, and since then her producing credits have included Oren Moverman’s Time Out of Mind and the award-winning documentary Spinning Plates. Bailey’s production company Cold Iron Pictures was behind the award-winning 2015 Sundance sensation Diary of a Teenage Girl, in which she played a supporting role opposite Kristen Wiig. This summer two other films that […]...
- 6/17/2016
- by Paula Bernstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Each Monday we present you with the most up-to-date list of the top 10 indie movies in the iTunes store, combining rentals and purchases. Though Oscar-winners "12 Years a Slave" and "Dallas Buyers Club" continue to remain strong, smaller indies such as "Blue Ruin" and "Filth" join the list this week. The top 10 indies in iTunes are listed below (number represents North American gross, where applicable): 1. Philomena (Weinstein Company, $37,675,700) 2 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight, $56,651,943) 3. Blue Ruin (Radius-twc, $32,608) 4. August: Osage County (Weinstein Company, $37,734,473) 5. Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features, $27,296,514) 6. Joe (Roadside Attractions, $298,352) 7. The Machine (Phase 4 Films, N/A) 8. Enemy (A24, $992,900) 9. Spinning Plates (The Film Arcade, $112,449) 10. Filth (Magnolia, N/A)...
- 4/28/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Each Monday we present you with the most up-to-date list of the top 10 (indie) movies in the iTunes store, combining rentals and purchases. Fueled by Oscar buzz, in second first week on the list, Focus Features' "Dallas Buyers Club" maintains its #1 spot, followed by "All is Lost." Three day and date releases "Someone Marry Barry," "Adult World" and "Easy Money: Hard to Kill" also hit the list. The top 10 indies in iTunes are listed below (number represents North American gross, where applicable): 1. Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features, $24,304,000) 2. Enough Said (Fox Searchlight, $17,550,872) 3. All is Lost (Roadside Attractions, $6,255,562) 4. Someone Marry Barry (FilmBuff, N/A) 5. The Spectacular Now (A24, $6,854,611) 6. The Summit (IFC, $243,550) 7. Spinning Plates (The Film Arcade, $112,449) 8. Adult World (IFC, N/A) 9. Easy Money: Hard to Kill (Cinedigm, N/A) 10. Fruitvale...
- 2/17/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
From levelFILM, Sneak Peek writer/director Joseph Levy's award winning 'restaurant documentary' "Spinning Plates", now available on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD:
"...'Spinning Plates' follows three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are. Stories range from 'Alinea', the seventh-best restaurant in the world, a 150-year-old family restaurant in Iowa with an unbreakable bond with its community and a fledgling Mexican restaurant whose immigrant owners risk everything to provide a better life for their young daughter..."
Spinning Plates was produced and financed by Miranda Bailey and Matthew Leutwyler at Ambush Entertainment and Phil Rosenthal ("Everybody Loves Raymond"). Joseph Levy and Jacqueline Lesko also served as producers with SimSarna and Taz Goldstein as executive producers.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Spinning Plates"...
"...'Spinning Plates' follows three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are. Stories range from 'Alinea', the seventh-best restaurant in the world, a 150-year-old family restaurant in Iowa with an unbreakable bond with its community and a fledgling Mexican restaurant whose immigrant owners risk everything to provide a better life for their young daughter..."
Spinning Plates was produced and financed by Miranda Bailey and Matthew Leutwyler at Ambush Entertainment and Phil Rosenthal ("Everybody Loves Raymond"). Joseph Levy and Jacqueline Lesko also served as producers with SimSarna and Taz Goldstein as executive producers.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Spinning Plates"...
- 2/15/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Austin Film Festival ended last week, but the news flashes aren't over yet. The 2013 Audience Award winners were announced Monday and include a few with Austin/Texas connections -- most notably All of Me, an Austin-based documentary, and Sombras de Azul, which was written and directed by Austin filmmaker Kelly Daniela Norris.
The Marquee Feature Award went to Tommy Oliver's family drama 1982, and the Narrative Feature pick Beside Still Waters was also a Jury Award winner. Directed and co-written by Chris Lowell, this ensemble piece explores heavy themes using humor and heart. Many Audience Award winners from past years have gone on to more widespread attention and acclaim, including Silver Linings Playbook, Spinning Plates and 2011's The Artist.
Take a look at the full list of 2013 awardees:
1982 -- Marquee Feature Audience Award, written and directed by Tommy Oliver.Beside Still Waters -- Narrative Feature Audience Award, written by Chris Lowell...
The Marquee Feature Award went to Tommy Oliver's family drama 1982, and the Narrative Feature pick Beside Still Waters was also a Jury Award winner. Directed and co-written by Chris Lowell, this ensemble piece explores heavy themes using humor and heart. Many Audience Award winners from past years have gone on to more widespread attention and acclaim, including Silver Linings Playbook, Spinning Plates and 2011's The Artist.
Take a look at the full list of 2013 awardees:
1982 -- Marquee Feature Audience Award, written and directed by Tommy Oliver.Beside Still Waters -- Narrative Feature Audience Award, written by Chris Lowell...
- 11/5/2013
- by Caitlin Moore
- Slackerwood
Director Joseph Levy’s new documentary, Spinning Plates, tells the intertwined stories of three strikingly varied restaurants: the avant garde and acclaimed Alinea in Chicago, enduring and homey Breitbach’s in Iowa and struggling-yet-hopeful La Cocina de Gabby in Arizona. “Each one is a different entry point into dining,” says the L.A.-based filmmaker, who first delved into the world of professional kitchens while producing the Food Network series Into the Fire in 2003. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Levy is an avid diner. “If I could eat out at a different restaurant every night, I would,” he says. “My
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- 10/28/2013
- by Gary Baum
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Continuing the flow of highly anticipated specialized releases, IFC's controversial French female romantic drama "Blue Is the Warmest Color" started off strong. Among the highly anticipated November openers are "Dallas Buyers Club," "Nebraska" and "Philomena," with more opening every week through the end of the year. Despite some obstacles, "Blue" managed the best per screen average opening of any multi-screen foreign language film so far this year, and should build momentum in other cities ahead, though it will be limited somewhat by its Nc-17 rating. Two new documentaries, "The Square" and "Spinning Plates," opened to lower but Ok results. "Capital," the new film by legendary director Costa-Gavras nabbed some attention in its two-theater New York opening. Last week's big opener "12 Years a Slave" continued its impressive grosses with a quick expansion to 125 theaters (good enough to be covered in our top 10 report), while "All Is Lost" continues to...
- 10/27/2013
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Thompson on Hollywood
Three restaurants with three wildly different agendas make for three generally compelling stories in "Spinning Plates," a documentary that plays like a very good pilot for a Food Network series that never was.
Writer-director Joseph Levy tells the tale of one of the finest restaurants in the world, Alinea in Chicago, with its storied "molecular gastronomy" pioneer chef Grant Achatz and its pursuit of that treasured three-star Michelin Guide rating. Levy also hangs out in Balltown, Iowa, where Breitbach's Country Dining has been in the same family for 150 years, and is an anchor in the tiny community it calls home.
And Levy follows the week-to-week struggles of the Martinez family, Latin-American immigrants whose American dream is to open a Mexican restaurant (La Cocina de Gabby) in Tucson's crowded Mexican restaurant market.
Achatz, whose story is dramatic enough to have warranted a New Yorker profile, worries about his "legacy," showing off...
Writer-director Joseph Levy tells the tale of one of the finest restaurants in the world, Alinea in Chicago, with its storied "molecular gastronomy" pioneer chef Grant Achatz and its pursuit of that treasured three-star Michelin Guide rating. Levy also hangs out in Balltown, Iowa, where Breitbach's Country Dining has been in the same family for 150 years, and is an anchor in the tiny community it calls home.
And Levy follows the week-to-week struggles of the Martinez family, Latin-American immigrants whose American dream is to open a Mexican restaurant (La Cocina de Gabby) in Tucson's crowded Mexican restaurant market.
Achatz, whose story is dramatic enough to have warranted a New Yorker profile, worries about his "legacy," showing off...
- 10/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
What it means to dine out has changed profoundly over the last few decades. This week The New York Times reported on the closure of Hilltop Steak House, a western-themed restaurant just outside of Boston, which had been open since 1961. It perfectly reflects the sort of post-war ideal of what the restaurant was at the time, a roadside destination, offering big servings of hearty food that people recognized. If you wanted a big sirloin steak, this place offered it and then some. But in an era of organic, artisinal, tasting menus, farm-to-table, rustic and other adjectives which describe the micro-genres of eating options available to the casual diner, something like Hilltop Steak House is positively antiquated. Restaurants these days seem to have to mean something more than just the food they're serving, and in Joseph Levy's "Spinning Plates," he serves up a trio of stories that illustrate the varied face of eating out.
- 10/23/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
We’ve got people behaving badly for Ridley Scott, two young ladies sharing a tempestuous romance, Johnny Knoxville doing some terrible things in old-age makeup, Al Pacino hunting down Oscar Wilde, and a dozen other films fighting for your love. It’s another big week for releases (and Javier Bardem’s hair) so here’s your trailer-ized guide to what’s coming out: The Major Names The Counselor Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Blue is the Warmest Color Read our review The Specialty Stuff Bad Behavior Bastards Wednesday Release Capital Caucus Finding Neighbors A Journey to Planet Sanity Losers Take All Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics The Pin Spinning Plates The Square A True Story When I Walk Wilde Salome If you’re afraid of going outside, Rob has you covered on DVD and Blu-rays.
- 10/23/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
There's little to suggest the restaurant industry needs a champion, but director Joseph Levy took on that mantle anyway. His feature debut is the splendid and engrossing documentary Spinning Plates, a love letter to that singular intersection of artistic innovation, cultural legacy, community pride, and family-sustaining (or -straining) commerce known as the restaurant. Framed as a profile of three eateries, Spinning Plates is most satisfying as portraits of three very disparate families in the same line of work. See also: Spinning Plates Director Joseph Levy: I Wanted to Tell the Human Story of Restaurants (Exclusive Clip) The undisputed star is renowned ...
- 10/23/2013
- Village Voice
While shows like "Top Chef" bring viewers into a world where chefs are already performing at a high level and looking to get to the next important step in their careers, for many cooks around the country, preparing a mouth-watering meal for Tom Colicchio and Padma Lakshmi is far from the reality they face. And the upcoming documentary "Spinning Plates" serves up a different version of what chefs around the country at all levels are facing. Director Joseph Levy uses different stories in his film to illustrate some of the unique challenges facing restaurants and cooks, and how their job is inextricably linked to their lives. And in these exclusive clips, we get an appetizer of those tales. In the first clip we meet Annie who works at the beloved Breitbach's Country Dining in Balltown, Iowa, which has been in business since 1852 and is still a family business, six generations on.
- 10/15/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Watch the trailer and check out the poster for The Film Arcade and Inception Media's Spinning Plates, with Grant Achatz and Thomas Keller. The film from director and writer Joseph Levy, opens on October 25th at the Landmark (Los Angeles) and Landmark Sunshine (New York City). Spinning Plates is a documentary about three extraordinary restaurants and the incredible people who make them what they are. A cutting-edge restaurant named the seventh-best in the world whose chef must battle a life-threatening obstacle to pursue his passion. A 150-year-old family restaurant still standing only because...
- 9/19/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
You might think there are no three places further apart culinarily speaking than Grant Achatz’s hyper-molecular gastronomy mecca Alinea in Chicago, a mom-and-pop Mexican eatery in Arizona, and a family-owned country restaurant in the middle of Iowa. But the upcoming documentary Spinning Plates is out to prove that no matter how fancy or bare bones a kitchen is, running a restaurant takes a special kind of family. “Food is at once art, at once craft, and at once science,” Achatz says in the exclusive trailer below.
But more than that, food is relationships, as evidenced in the stories of Achatz’s cancer recovery,...
But more than that, food is relationships, as evidenced in the stories of Achatz’s cancer recovery,...
- 9/17/2013
- by Laura Hertzfeld
- EW - Inside Movies
The Film Arcade and Inception Media Group have acquired restaurant documentary “Spinning Plates” and plan a U.S. theatrical release on October 25th. The film follows three restaurants in strikingly different situations: Alinea, rated 7th in the world; a family-run community landmark in Iowa; and an immigrant-owned Mexican restaurant just getting off the ground. The film was produced and co-financed by Film Arcade founder Miranda Bailey, Matthew Leutwyler of Ambush Entertainment, Joseph Levy of Chaos Theory, and is executive produced by Phil Rosenthal (“Everybody Loves Raymond”). Also read: Cinedigm, Film Arcade Acquire Stripper Comedy, ‘Afternoon Delight’ “Spinning Plates is a terrific movie,...
- 9/4/2013
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
The Film Arcade and Inception Media Group have acquired Joseph Levy’s restaurant documentary Spinning Plates.
The Film Arcade will release the film theatrically on Oct 25 and Inception Media Group handles Us ancillary distribution.
Fledgling distributor levelFILM will release in Canada and Gei’s Richard Guardian holds international rights.
Spinning Plates follows the stories behind several restaurants and the people who run them – a Michelin star establishment, a restaurant run by a chef with life-threatening cancer, a 150-year-olf family-run business and a new Mexican restaurant run by immigrants desperate to create a better life for their young daughter.
Miranda Bailey and Matthew Leutwyler at Ambush Entertainment, Levy of Chaos Theory and Phil Rosenthal produced and financed the film.
Jacqueline Lesko, Sim Sarna and Taz Goldstein served as executive producers.
The Film Arcade will release the film theatrically on Oct 25 and Inception Media Group handles Us ancillary distribution.
Fledgling distributor levelFILM will release in Canada and Gei’s Richard Guardian holds international rights.
Spinning Plates follows the stories behind several restaurants and the people who run them – a Michelin star establishment, a restaurant run by a chef with life-threatening cancer, a 150-year-olf family-run business and a new Mexican restaurant run by immigrants desperate to create a better life for their young daughter.
Miranda Bailey and Matthew Leutwyler at Ambush Entertainment, Levy of Chaos Theory and Phil Rosenthal produced and financed the film.
Jacqueline Lesko, Sim Sarna and Taz Goldstein served as executive producers.
- 9/4/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
By the time you read this, I'll be in Fredericksburg for the Hill Country Film Festival. I love a film fest that's in one theater, where you get to know all the filmmakers and half the audience, and where short films prevail and celebrities do not. I wish the weather were less capricious, but you can't have everything. If you're in Austin instead, your best bet may be that fabulous new release about heroes who use their iron technology to assist mankind. Of course I mean the Austin documentary Trash Dance, which has a weeklong run at Violet Crown.
Hoping to get back in town Sunday in time for Alamo Drafthouse Ritz's Cinema Cocktails screening of the 1949 musical On the Town, a favorite of mine, screening in 35mm. Who couldn't love dance numbers from Gene Kelly, Vera-Ellen and especially Ann Miller, with a script from Comden and Green? And you...
Hoping to get back in town Sunday in time for Alamo Drafthouse Ritz's Cinema Cocktails screening of the 1949 musical On the Town, a favorite of mine, screening in 35mm. Who couldn't love dance numbers from Gene Kelly, Vera-Ellen and especially Ann Miller, with a script from Comden and Green? And you...
- 5/3/2013
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Written and Directed by: Joseph Levy
Featuring: Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz
Spinning Plates, the new documentary by writer/director Joseph Levy, is the story of three incredibly varied restaurants and their owners. The restaurants could not be more different in style and cuisine. We have the Michelin three-star-rated Alinea in Chicago, the small Tuscon Mexican restaurant named La Cocina de Gabby and the 150-year-old Breitbach's Country Dining in Balltown, Iowa. But Levy was able to tell each of these unique establishments' stories while still connecting them on some of our most basic, most important levels: family, food and love.
La Cocina de Gabby's story is one that is far too familiar to anyone who has any knowledge of the food industry. It is a family-run business trying to create a name for itself and struggling to bring in enough customers to just pay the bills. The passion and dedication of...
Featuring: Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz
Spinning Plates, the new documentary by writer/director Joseph Levy, is the story of three incredibly varied restaurants and their owners. The restaurants could not be more different in style and cuisine. We have the Michelin three-star-rated Alinea in Chicago, the small Tuscon Mexican restaurant named La Cocina de Gabby and the 150-year-old Breitbach's Country Dining in Balltown, Iowa. But Levy was able to tell each of these unique establishments' stories while still connecting them on some of our most basic, most important levels: family, food and love.
La Cocina de Gabby's story is one that is far too familiar to anyone who has any knowledge of the food industry. It is a family-run business trying to create a name for itself and struggling to bring in enough customers to just pay the bills. The passion and dedication of...
- 11/5/2012
- by Katie Jordan
- Planet Fury
One more feather in the awards cap for David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook": The Austin Film Festival, which ran October 18-25, announces the film as winner of its Marquee Feature Audience Award. A full list of the festival's award winners is below. Marquee Feature Audience Award: Silver Linings Playbook Writer/Director: David O. Russell Narrative Feature Audience Award: Junk Writers: Kevin Hamedani, Ramon Isao Director: Kevin Hamedani Documentary Feature Audience Award: (Tie) Spinning Plates Writer/Director: Joseph Levy Rising From Ashes Director: T.C. Johnstone Comedy Vanguard Audience Award: The Muslims Are Coming! Directors: Negin Farsad, Dean Obeidallah Dark Matters Audience Award: Saturday Morning Massacre Writers: Jory Balsimo, Aaron Leggett, Jason Wehling Director: Spencer Parsons Narrative Short Audience Award: Asad Writer/Director: Bryan Buckley ...
- 10/30/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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