There is one problem with the lively new James Carville documentary, Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, premiering at Telluride: For much of the film, Carville worries about the dangers of having Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate.
Obviously, the movie (which was acquired by CNN Films) was conceived and filmed before Biden dropped out of the race. During the last year, long before the June debate with Trump, Carville was deeply concerned that Biden’s presence on the ballot could cost the Democrats the election. That all changed on July 21st, when Biden dropped out. But by then, the film was close to completion. A brief end title reports the news of Harris’ ascension, yet the film still seems skewed.
Nevertheless, it provides some great background on Carville and certainly convinces us that he is one of the most colorful figures on the scene today — and still making noise.
Obviously, the movie (which was acquired by CNN Films) was conceived and filmed before Biden dropped out of the race. During the last year, long before the June debate with Trump, Carville was deeply concerned that Biden’s presence on the ballot could cost the Democrats the election. That all changed on July 21st, when Biden dropped out. But by then, the film was close to completion. A brief end title reports the news of Harris’ ascension, yet the film still seems skewed.
Nevertheless, it provides some great background on Carville and certainly convinces us that he is one of the most colorful figures on the scene today — and still making noise.
- 8/31/2024
- by Stephen Farber
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AGC Intl., the international sales arm of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, is launching sales in Cannes on director Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary feature “Nobu,” about world-renowned chef and hotelier Nobu Matsuhisa.
Matsuhisa’s path to success was strewn with obstacles, adversity and tragedy. His story will be uncovered by Tyrnauer, the former editor-at-large at Vanity Fair, with exclusive access to the chef, his global empire, and his key collaborators, friends and famous fans.
Tyrnauer’s films have included “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” which was shortlisted for an Academy Award for documentary feature; the Emmy-nominated multi-part series “Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons,” about the man behind the commercial empire and his hidden ties to Jeffrey Epstein; “Where’s My Roy Cohn?,” about the Svengali behind Joseph McCarthy and Donald Trump; “Studio 54,” about the famed New York City nightclub that became a cultural phenomenon; “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood,” about...
Matsuhisa’s path to success was strewn with obstacles, adversity and tragedy. His story will be uncovered by Tyrnauer, the former editor-at-large at Vanity Fair, with exclusive access to the chef, his global empire, and his key collaborators, friends and famous fans.
Tyrnauer’s films have included “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” which was shortlisted for an Academy Award for documentary feature; the Emmy-nominated multi-part series “Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons,” about the man behind the commercial empire and his hidden ties to Jeffrey Epstein; “Where’s My Roy Cohn?,” about the Svengali behind Joseph McCarthy and Donald Trump; “Studio 54,” about the famed New York City nightclub that became a cultural phenomenon; “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood,” about...
- 5/17/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The animated series “Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum” shares the misadventures of Xavier Riddle and his two best friends. The PBS Kids’ show follows the trio as they tackle the everyday problems that children tend to face by traveling back in time to learn from real-life icons and inspirational people.
The show, which is based on the “Ordinary People Change the World” book series by author Brad Meltzer, has been popular among children five to eight years old since it first aired in 2019.
This story will walk you through everything you need to know about the show and its key characters.
Who Are the Main Characters of “Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum?”
Let’s meet the show’s main characters:
Xavier Riddle:
Voiced by Aidan Vissers, Xavier is the show’s namesake and the leader of his friend group, which includes his younger sister, Yadina, and their friend Brad.
The show, which is based on the “Ordinary People Change the World” book series by author Brad Meltzer, has been popular among children five to eight years old since it first aired in 2019.
This story will walk you through everything you need to know about the show and its key characters.
Who Are the Main Characters of “Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum?”
Let’s meet the show’s main characters:
Xavier Riddle:
Voiced by Aidan Vissers, Xavier is the show’s namesake and the leader of his friend group, which includes his younger sister, Yadina, and their friend Brad.
- 8/2/2022
- by Buddy TV
- buddytv.com
Following its acclaimed run at The Bridge Theatre in London, David Hare’s Straight Line Crazy starring Ralph Fiennes as New York powerbroker Robert Moses will make its Big Apple Off Broadway debut this fall at The Shed. Directed by Nicholas Hytner and Jamie Armitage, the play will run October 18-December 18.
The announcement was made Monday by producers Alex Poots, artistic director and CEO of The Shed; Madani Younis, chief executive producer of The Shed; and Tim Levy, co-director of the London Theatre Company.
The limited nine-week engagement begins previews October 18, with an official opening October 26 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater as part of the venue’s fall 2022 season.
Hare’s play examines the questionable legacy of Moses and his enduring impact on New York. The play presents an imagined retelling of the arc of Moses’ controversial career in two decisive moments: his rise to power in the late...
The announcement was made Monday by producers Alex Poots, artistic director and CEO of The Shed; Madani Younis, chief executive producer of The Shed; and Tim Levy, co-director of the London Theatre Company.
The limited nine-week engagement begins previews October 18, with an official opening October 26 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater as part of the venue’s fall 2022 season.
Hare’s play examines the questionable legacy of Moses and his enduring impact on New York. The play presents an imagined retelling of the arc of Moses’ controversial career in two decisive moments: his rise to power in the late...
- 6/27/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“Spider-Man: Homecoming” has been earning rave review from critics and fans alike, stealing the top spot at the box office on its opening weekend, and raking in over $154 million during its first week in theaters. No one has really captured both sides of Peter Parker’s personality quite as succinctly as Tom Holland, who plays the character like a plucky Queens kid that just feels right. But the new movie contains another notable character shift: Aunt May, now played by Marisa Tomei.
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This wasn’t the Aunt May fans might remember from the comics — a sweet old woman keen on cooking and housekeeping, her collar buttoned high, her silver hair pulled back into a matronly chignon. With her very first appearance on screen (in a fleeting moment from “Captain America: Civil War”), Tomei establishes that her...
Read More‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’: Here’s a Guide to the Stellar Supporting Cast
This wasn’t the Aunt May fans might remember from the comics — a sweet old woman keen on cooking and housekeeping, her collar buttoned high, her silver hair pulled back into a matronly chignon. With her very first appearance on screen (in a fleeting moment from “Captain America: Civil War”), Tomei establishes that her...
- 7/19/2017
- by Jamie Righetti
- Indiewire
Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016, Matt Tyrnauer‘s Citizen Jane: Battle for the City has received rave reviews across the country as it opened in limited release last month. Centering on Jane Jacobs — a journalist, author, and activist — the film showcases the problems inherent to how urban planners in the mid-twentieth century worked.
One of the key proponents of this movement to teardown what he deemed “slums” for new, mammoth housing projects of concrete erasing the very communities they sought to “save” was New York’s Robert Moses. His power and reputation allowed him to force his ideas through the legislature for decades until Jacobs caught wind professionally and personally (he would eventually target her neighborhood). She ignited to take a stand and share her own beliefs in writing and via protest on city living, safety via “eyes on the street,” and the notion that cities are defined by its people,...
One of the key proponents of this movement to teardown what he deemed “slums” for new, mammoth housing projects of concrete erasing the very communities they sought to “save” was New York’s Robert Moses. His power and reputation allowed him to force his ideas through the legislature for decades until Jacobs caught wind professionally and personally (he would eventually target her neighborhood). She ignited to take a stand and share her own beliefs in writing and via protest on city living, safety via “eyes on the street,” and the notion that cities are defined by its people,...
- 5/19/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Author: Competitions
To mark the release of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City on 22nd May, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
In 1960 Jane Jacobs’ book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in fights in mid-century New York to stop ‘master builder’ Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs’ prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This...
To mark the release of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City on 22nd May, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
In 1960 Jane Jacobs’ book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in fights in mid-century New York to stop ‘master builder’ Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs’ prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This...
- 5/15/2017
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The 1960s were a hotbed of activism by necessity. You had civil rights battles for racial and gender equality, protests standing in opposition of new wars coming down the pipeline after just finishing one that risked destroying everything, and America’s growing wealth disparity reaching an apex yet to be solved even today. You had an expanding populace surviving domestically in cities that were falling apart and in desperate need of resuscitation. Suddenly the “first world” hit a decision point on how to proceed forward into a modern age and those with the money and political influence to do exactly that in their own image stood tall to dictate terms. They spoke in abstracts and trends, adhered to bottom-lines, and completely ignored those they supposedly sought to help: us.
It’s therefore no surprise that the 2010s quickly became a decade molded after those days of civil unrest and the...
It’s therefore no surprise that the 2010s quickly became a decade molded after those days of civil unrest and the...
- 5/11/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
This documentary about New York City campaigner Jane Jacobs should appeal to urban activists and architecture nerds alike
Matt Tyrnauer’s engaging, chirpily scored documentary centres on New Yorker Jane Jacobs. A journalist who began her career writing about city life in Vogue, she rallied against the architectural modernism that formed the backbone of urban planner Robert Moses’s quick-fix clean-up programme. Jacobs insisted that with skyscrapers come slums, emphasising the city as a community of people rather than a collection of buildings. The film spends a little too long on Jacobs’s involvement in killing Moses’s proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, but it’s energising to see civil disobedience linked with feminist, environmental and anti-war movements that played out contemporaneously. A celebration of grassroots activism and a cry for community, this should appeal to those interested in the history and politics of urbanisation as well as architecture nerds.
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Matt Tyrnauer’s engaging, chirpily scored documentary centres on New Yorker Jane Jacobs. A journalist who began her career writing about city life in Vogue, she rallied against the architectural modernism that formed the backbone of urban planner Robert Moses’s quick-fix clean-up programme. Jacobs insisted that with skyscrapers come slums, emphasising the city as a community of people rather than a collection of buildings. The film spends a little too long on Jacobs’s involvement in killing Moses’s proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, but it’s energising to see civil disobedience linked with feminist, environmental and anti-war movements that played out contemporaneously. A celebration of grassroots activism and a cry for community, this should appeal to those interested in the history and politics of urbanisation as well as architecture nerds.
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- 5/7/2017
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Adam Lowes
Resembling a kind of David and Goliath tale in the pushing back against the kind of homogeny that seemingly comes hand in hand with urbanisation, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is a fascinating history lesson which never feels preachy nor heavy-handed. Director Matt Tyrnauer (armed with a generous quantity of gorgeous archive footage) brings an accessibility and light touch to the story, managing to engage and entertain without it ever turning into a dry polemic.
It helps immensely that the film’s subject matter – author, journalist and activist Jane Jacobs – is such an appealing and admirable figure. Focused primarily on urban studies in the Us during the 1960’s, Jacobs’ bookish exterior betrays the vociferous dissident nature within, which favoured brain over brawn. It was this approach which saw her prevail many times, particularly during the fight which forms the basis of this film, when she went...
Resembling a kind of David and Goliath tale in the pushing back against the kind of homogeny that seemingly comes hand in hand with urbanisation, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is a fascinating history lesson which never feels preachy nor heavy-handed. Director Matt Tyrnauer (armed with a generous quantity of gorgeous archive footage) brings an accessibility and light touch to the story, managing to engage and entertain without it ever turning into a dry polemic.
It helps immensely that the film’s subject matter – author, journalist and activist Jane Jacobs – is such an appealing and admirable figure. Focused primarily on urban studies in the Us during the 1960’s, Jacobs’ bookish exterior betrays the vociferous dissident nature within, which favoured brain over brawn. It was this approach which saw her prevail many times, particularly during the fight which forms the basis of this film, when she went...
- 5/5/2017
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The radical activist Jane Jacobs makes a compelling subject for this documentary, which details her struggle with despotic planner Robert Moses
New York’s dissident urban theorist Jane Jacobs is the subject of this bracing, invigorating documentary. Yet it has no very reassuring message for the future, or for what can be done to keep her message alive. After the war, New York City’s urban planning became the province of just one man, Robert Moses, a conceited wheeler-dealer who secured federal funds for his grand designs and became more important than any elected official. He was what this film calls a “super block modernist”, dropping his great rectilinear urban-renewal designs from above like some fusion of Le Corbusier and Bomber Harris. Moses wiped away slum tenements wholesale and replaced them with grim, soulless and cheaply made projects which became the nurseries of crime. He was also an enthusiast for...
New York’s dissident urban theorist Jane Jacobs is the subject of this bracing, invigorating documentary. Yet it has no very reassuring message for the future, or for what can be done to keep her message alive. After the war, New York City’s urban planning became the province of just one man, Robert Moses, a conceited wheeler-dealer who secured federal funds for his grand designs and became more important than any elected official. He was what this film calls a “super block modernist”, dropping his great rectilinear urban-renewal designs from above like some fusion of Le Corbusier and Bomber Harris. Moses wiped away slum tenements wholesale and replaced them with grim, soulless and cheaply made projects which became the nurseries of crime. He was also an enthusiast for...
- 5/4/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Two specialized releases made the top 10 this week: “Gifted” (Fox Searchlight) came in #8 with $4.5 million, while the second weekend of “The Lost City of Z” (Bleecker Street) managed to place 10th in only 614 theaters.
Specialty distributors are pushing their films to more theaters; at nearly 2,000 theaters in its third week, “Gifted” is a wide release. This strategy doesn’t always work: A24 went to over 1,000 theaters initially for “Free Fire” with Brie Larson. It flopped across the board despite its pedigree.
Documentaries continue to stand out among niche limited openers. “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” (IFC) scored a strong New York two-theater response despite its parallel VOD option. And food scored again as “Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent” (The Orchard) worked with targeted marketing in its first two cities.
Opening
Free Fire (A24) – Metactritic: 64; Festivals include: Toronto 2016
$1,040,000 in 1,070 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $972
Clearly a disappointment considering its...
Specialty distributors are pushing their films to more theaters; at nearly 2,000 theaters in its third week, “Gifted” is a wide release. This strategy doesn’t always work: A24 went to over 1,000 theaters initially for “Free Fire” with Brie Larson. It flopped across the board despite its pedigree.
Documentaries continue to stand out among niche limited openers. “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” (IFC) scored a strong New York two-theater response despite its parallel VOD option. And food scored again as “Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent” (The Orchard) worked with targeted marketing in its first two cities.
Opening
Free Fire (A24) – Metactritic: 64; Festivals include: Toronto 2016
$1,040,000 in 1,070 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $972
Clearly a disappointment considering its...
- 4/23/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
New film tells story of Jane Jacobs’s battles against the wealthiest developers in the city
She was a beaky, bespectacled architecture writer, hardly a figure likely to ignite protests that changed the shape of one of the world’s great cities. Yet such is the legend of Jane Jacobs and her bitter struggles to preserve the heart of New York from modernisation that a film charting her astonishing victories over some of the most powerful developers in the Us is set to inspire a new generation of urban activists around the world.
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City tells the story of Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, who made herself the bane of New York’s powerful city planners from the 1950s to 1970s. Her nemesis was Robert Moses, the city’s powerful master builder and advocate of urban renewal, or wholesale neighbourhood...
She was a beaky, bespectacled architecture writer, hardly a figure likely to ignite protests that changed the shape of one of the world’s great cities. Yet such is the legend of Jane Jacobs and her bitter struggles to preserve the heart of New York from modernisation that a film charting her astonishing victories over some of the most powerful developers in the Us is set to inspire a new generation of urban activists around the world.
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City tells the story of Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, who made herself the bane of New York’s powerful city planners from the 1950s to 1970s. Her nemesis was Robert Moses, the city’s powerful master builder and advocate of urban renewal, or wholesale neighbourhood...
- 4/22/2017
- by Edward Helmore
- The Guardian - Film News
His name is not mentioned in the title, but Robert Moses figures just as prominently as Jane Jacobs, the principal subject of Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City gives long overdue cinematic appreciation to the journalist/social activist who successfully led the fight against Moses’ grandiose plans to remake New York City neighborhoods. Viewers will almost certainly be persuaded to read or reread Jacobs’ classic book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
The filmmaker, whose previous effort was Valentino: The Last Emperor, employs a standard mixture of talking heads and archival footage to relate the story...
The filmmaker, whose previous effort was Valentino: The Last Emperor, employs a standard mixture of talking heads and archival footage to relate the story...
- 4/20/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
Will This April Dump Weekend See Any New Movie Open Over $10 Million?
After the decent opening of last week’s The Fate of the Furious--though not quite as much as I predicted--it’s going to be hard for any new movie to make a mark against its second weekend even if it drops 55% or more this weekend, which is very likely.
Probably the best bet to make money this weekend is the thriller Unforgettable (Warner Bros.), which pits Kathryn Heigl against Rosario Dawson and is the directorial debut by producer Denise Di Novi (Crazy, Stupid, Love). It also stars Geoff Stults as the ex-husband of Heigl’s character Tessa, who becomes engaged to Dawson’s Julia, making her the stepmom to the former’s daughter,...
Will This April Dump Weekend See Any New Movie Open Over $10 Million?
After the decent opening of last week’s The Fate of the Furious--though not quite as much as I predicted--it’s going to be hard for any new movie to make a mark against its second weekend even if it drops 55% or more this weekend, which is very likely.
Probably the best bet to make money this weekend is the thriller Unforgettable (Warner Bros.), which pits Kathryn Heigl against Rosario Dawson and is the directorial debut by producer Denise Di Novi (Crazy, Stupid, Love). It also stars Geoff Stults as the ex-husband of Heigl’s character Tessa, who becomes engaged to Dawson’s Julia, making her the stepmom to the former’s daughter,...
- 4/19/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
"She believed the city is not about buildings, the city is about people." Need a good doc to rile you up and inspire you to get out there and fight back? Try this one. Sundance Selects has debuted a trailer for a documentary titled Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, profiling the activism work of Jane Jacobs. Jacobs fought to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s. The doc focuses on construction kingpin Robert Moses' plan to raze lower Manhattan to make way for a highway. This seems like the perfect doc for the times, showing how passionate activism can actually make a difference. This also reminds me of another great battle of wits doc - Best of Enemies, which I also highly recommend seeing. Citizen Jane opens in NYC later this week, then La next week. Take a look.
- 4/18/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Documentary company closes sales on 78/52, Dries, and Citizen Jane: Battle For The City.
UK documentary specialists Dogwoof has racked up a series of deals on its European Film Market slate.
Alexandre O. Phillippe’s 78/52, which Dogwoof acquired in Sundance, has gone to Scandinavia (Non Stop Entertainment) and Spain (A Contracorriente). The film is a close-up look at Alfred Hitchock’s iconic shower scene from Psycho and had its Efm market premiere on Friday (Feb 10).
Reiner Holzemer’s Dries, an intimate portrait of the fashion designer Dries Van Noten, has gone to: Japan (New Select), Hong Kong (Edo), Belgium (Dalton); Australia and New Zealand (Madman); with an in-flight world deal (excluding United Kingdom and Australia) signed with Jaguar.
Matt Tynauer’s Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, the story of journalist and activist Jane Jacobs and her battles with New York town planner Robert Moses, has sold to: Hong Kong (Edko); Commonwealth of Independent States (Beat Films); Italy...
UK documentary specialists Dogwoof has racked up a series of deals on its European Film Market slate.
Alexandre O. Phillippe’s 78/52, which Dogwoof acquired in Sundance, has gone to Scandinavia (Non Stop Entertainment) and Spain (A Contracorriente). The film is a close-up look at Alfred Hitchock’s iconic shower scene from Psycho and had its Efm market premiere on Friday (Feb 10).
Reiner Holzemer’s Dries, an intimate portrait of the fashion designer Dries Van Noten, has gone to: Japan (New Select), Hong Kong (Edo), Belgium (Dalton); Australia and New Zealand (Madman); with an in-flight world deal (excluding United Kingdom and Australia) signed with Jaguar.
Matt Tynauer’s Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, the story of journalist and activist Jane Jacobs and her battles with New York town planner Robert Moses, has sold to: Hong Kong (Edko); Commonwealth of Independent States (Beat Films); Italy...
- 2/11/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
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.
– Bleecker Street has announced it has acquired U.S. and select territory rights to “The Man Who Invented Christmas,” to be directed by Bharat Nalluri. The film will start shooting next month and is targeting a holiday 2017 release date.
The cast includes Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Jonathan Pryce as Dickens’ father. The Solution is handling rights for the rest of the world. The script is written by Susan Coyne and is based on the book “The Man Who Invented Christmas” by Les Standiford, published by Crown. The film recounts how Charles Dickens created the classic holiday fable, “A Christmas Carol.”
– Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has announced it has acquired exclusive distribution rights...
– Bleecker Street has announced it has acquired U.S. and select territory rights to “The Man Who Invented Christmas,” to be directed by Bharat Nalluri. The film will start shooting next month and is targeting a holiday 2017 release date.
The cast includes Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Jonathan Pryce as Dickens’ father. The Solution is handling rights for the rest of the world. The script is written by Susan Coyne and is based on the book “The Man Who Invented Christmas” by Les Standiford, published by Crown. The film recounts how Charles Dickens created the classic holiday fable, “A Christmas Carol.”
– Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has announced it has acquired exclusive distribution rights...
- 11/11/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sundance Selects has acquired U.S. rights to Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, Matt Tyrnauer's documentary that will open the Doc NYC festival tonight. A 2017 release is being eyed for the docu, which had its world premiere at Toronto this year. Citizen Jane chronicles the life and work of author-activist Jane Jacobs, author of The Death And Life Of Great American Cities, and how she changed the way we look at cities and urban living. It details her most dramatic battles…...
- 11/10/2016
- Deadline
New York City’s annual Doc NYC festival kicks off this week, including a full-to-bursting slate of some of this year’s most remarkable documentaries. If you’ve been looking to beef up on your documentary consumption, Doc NYC is the perfect chance to check out a wide variety of some of the year’s best fact-based features.
Ahead, we pick out 13 of our most anticipated films from the fest, including some awards contenders, a handful of buzzy debuts and a number of festival favorites. Take a look and start filling up your schedule now.
“Cameraperson”
Kirsten Johnson’s “visual memoir” has already completed a starry trot around the festival circuit, kicking off with a lauded debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but it still demands to be seen by a wider audience. Johnson made her bones as a cinematographer on a number of well-known (and well-loved) documentaries,...
Ahead, we pick out 13 of our most anticipated films from the fest, including some awards contenders, a handful of buzzy debuts and a number of festival favorites. Take a look and start filling up your schedule now.
“Cameraperson”
Kirsten Johnson’s “visual memoir” has already completed a starry trot around the festival circuit, kicking off with a lauded debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but it still demands to be seen by a wider audience. Johnson made her bones as a cinematographer on a number of well-known (and well-loved) documentaries,...
- 11/9/2016
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Chris O'Falt, Steve Greene and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Citizen Jane: Battle For The City will open the festival's seventh edition The line-up for the seventh edition of Doc NYC has been announced. The festival, which runs from November 10 to 17 in Manhattan, will feature 18 world premieres in a programme that includes 110 feature-length films and more than 250 films and events overall.
The festival will open with Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, about journalist and urban spaces activist Jane Jacobs, and close with Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, charting the life of the jazz saxophonist.
World premieres include Eve Ensler’s City of Joy, about a women’s leadership community in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; Netflix series Captive, about stories of hostage-taking; HBO’s Every Brilliant Thing, capturing a one-man show by Jonny Donahoe; and prison documentary Rikers.
The festival features two competition sections - Viewpoints, dedicated to "distinct directorial visions" and Metropolis, which features New York-centric films.
The festival will open with Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, about journalist and urban spaces activist Jane Jacobs, and close with Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, charting the life of the jazz saxophonist.
World premieres include Eve Ensler’s City of Joy, about a women’s leadership community in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; Netflix series Captive, about stories of hostage-taking; HBO’s Every Brilliant Thing, capturing a one-man show by Jonny Donahoe; and prison documentary Rikers.
The festival features two competition sections - Viewpoints, dedicated to "distinct directorial visions" and Metropolis, which features New York-centric films.
- 10/14/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Oscar winner Marisa Tomei channels the urban planning legend Jane Jacobs in the new documentary “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.” Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary, which had its world premiere Friday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows the life and legacy of the journalist, activist, and author of the influential 1960 book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” Jacobs’ book sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Also Read: Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek to Star at Williamstown Theatre Festival Jacobs was also.
- 9/10/2016
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Lineup and Pre-Festival Announcements and News
2016 Toronto International Film Festival: The Lineup
Tiff 2016 Announces Discovery Lineup, ‘In Conversation With…’ Guests, Vr Offerings and Much More
Tiff Platform Jury Revealed: Brian De Palma, Zhang Ziyi and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun to Judge Selections
Tiff Adds ‘I, Daniel Blake,’ ‘Julieta,’ ‘Personal Shopper,’ ‘The Unknown Girl,’ ‘Voyage of Time’ And Many More
Tiff’s Second-Ever TV Lineup Includes ‘Black Mirror’ and ‘Transparent’
Tiff Announces Platform Titles, Including ‘Jackie,’ ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Daguerrotype’ and More
Film Festival Roundup: BFI London To Premiere ‘Queen Of Katwe,’ Michael Fassbender Honored By Tiff And More
Attention, Filmmakers: Your Instagram Short Film Could Be Judged By Ava DuVernay and Xavier Dolan
Tiff Adds New Round of Titles, Including ‘It’s Only the End of the World,’ ‘Mean Dreams’ and More
Tiffbot: Meet The Robot Film Critic That Will Help You Decide What to Watch at the Toronto Film Festival
Pre-Festival Analysis...
2016 Toronto International Film Festival: The Lineup
Tiff 2016 Announces Discovery Lineup, ‘In Conversation With…’ Guests, Vr Offerings and Much More
Tiff Platform Jury Revealed: Brian De Palma, Zhang Ziyi and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun to Judge Selections
Tiff Adds ‘I, Daniel Blake,’ ‘Julieta,’ ‘Personal Shopper,’ ‘The Unknown Girl,’ ‘Voyage of Time’ And Many More
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Pre-Festival Analysis...
- 9/8/2016
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Film Festival Roundup: BFI London Announces Full Lineup, Austin Adds Playwriting Track And Much More
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
– The BFI London Film Festival has announced its full program, running October 5 – 16. The festival will screen a total of 193 fiction and 52 documentary features, including 18 World Premieres, 8 International Premieres, 39 European Premieres. There will also be screenings of 144 short films, including documentary, live action and animated works. A number of directors, cast and crew are expected to take part in career interviews, Screen Talks, Q&As and Industry Talks: Lff Connects during the fest.
The festival has previously announced both its opener — Amma Asante’s “A United Kingdom” — and its closer — Ben Wheatley’s “Free Fire” — and those titles are joined by a bevy of new additions. Highlights include “The Birth of a Nation,” “Nocturnal Animals,” “Manchester By the Sea,” “La La Land” and many more. You can check...
– The BFI London Film Festival has announced its full program, running October 5 – 16. The festival will screen a total of 193 fiction and 52 documentary features, including 18 World Premieres, 8 International Premieres, 39 European Premieres. There will also be screenings of 144 short films, including documentary, live action and animated works. A number of directors, cast and crew are expected to take part in career interviews, Screen Talks, Q&As and Industry Talks: Lff Connects during the fest.
The festival has previously announced both its opener — Amma Asante’s “A United Kingdom” — and its closer — Ben Wheatley’s “Free Fire” — and those titles are joined by a bevy of new additions. Highlights include “The Birth of a Nation,” “Nocturnal Animals,” “Manchester By the Sea,” “La La Land” and many more. You can check...
- 9/1/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
In a time when it feels like the integrity of urban neighborhoods are constantly at risk, it’s important to look back at history and discover the people who fought to maintain those neighborhoods and keep them out of the hands of power broker and developers. Matt Tyrnauer’s new documentary “Citizen Jane: Battle For The City” explores the life of legendary writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs, who battled to save history New York City neighborhoods from the redevelopment plans of the ruthless Robert Moses in the 1960s.
Read More: Tiff Rounds Out Slate With ‘Blair Witch,’ ‘Free Fire,’ ‘The Bad Batch’ and Many More
In 1960, Jacobs’s book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. She singlehandedly helped change the way people look at urban living,...
Read More: Tiff Rounds Out Slate With ‘Blair Witch,’ ‘Free Fire,’ ‘The Bad Batch’ and Many More
In 1960, Jacobs’s book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. She singlehandedly helped change the way people look at urban living,...
- 8/25/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- 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
Google is celebrating urban planning legend Jane Jacobs on what would be her 100th birthday with a Google Doodle. Jane Jacobs Google Doodle Jacobs, who wasn’t a trained urban planner or architect, became a major voice in urban planning after publishing The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961. Counter to the dominant theories of […]
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- 5/4/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
The film-maker's condemnation of the influence of white New Yorkers on his native Brooklyn was foreseen 50 years ago – by the Marxist planner who first coined the 'g-word'
• Spike Lee's gentrification rant – full transcript and audio
"Gentrification is just the fin above the water," the San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit once warned of the changes to her home town. "Below is the rest of the shark." The shark being a "hollow city" with an economy where "most of us will be poorer, a few will be far richer, and everything will be faster, more homogenous and more controlled or controllable".
Just over a decade later, her fellow citizens have been on the streets blocking Google's private buses, which ferry the company's workers from their expensive downtown pads to Silicon Valley offices. The tech industry rich have, it is argued, priced everybody else out of the city.
Gentrification is a western...
• Spike Lee's gentrification rant – full transcript and audio
"Gentrification is just the fin above the water," the San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit once warned of the changes to her home town. "Below is the rest of the shark." The shark being a "hollow city" with an economy where "most of us will be poorer, a few will be far richer, and everything will be faster, more homogenous and more controlled or controllable".
Just over a decade later, her fellow citizens have been on the streets blocking Google's private buses, which ferry the company's workers from their expensive downtown pads to Silicon Valley offices. The tech industry rich have, it is argued, priced everybody else out of the city.
Gentrification is a western...
- 2/28/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
For the first time in eleven years, the hand on the tiller at Lincoln Center is changing. Reynold Levy, who raised staggering amounts of money and oversaw the $1.2 billion renovation of the campus, is retiring at the end of the year, and his successor, the Broadway impresario Jed Bernstein, now president of Above the Title Entertainment, inherits the next major construction project: the renovation of Avery Fisher Hall.* Bernstein spoke to Justin Davidson from the office that will become his on January 26, 2014.Many years ago, Jane Jacobs predicted that Lincoln Center would isolate the arts on its own acropolis and suck the energy out of venues like Carnegie Hall and the theater district. You’ve watched the center get built and evolve into a much more open and busy organization, active in every season, indoors and out, and you’ve seen the city change around it, too. How do you...
- 5/15/2013
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
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