To follow up on her Independent Spirit Award-winning documentary “The Unforeseen,” Laura Dunn decided to explore the life and work of poet, farmer and activist Wendell Berry. In “Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry,” she uses Berry (and his Johnny Cash-like lilt of a voice) to document the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture. The film, which screens this week in the Spotlight section of the Sundance Film Festival after premiering at SXSW last year (under the title “The Seer”), was shot in and around the rolling hills of Berry’s native.
- 1/17/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
How hot is Kathryn Bigelow?
Hot enough that mere interest in the project has sent waves across the town and the Internet, making it seem that the director of "The Hurt Locker" is attached to something she is not. And she's not the only one, because Terrence Malick is also circling.
"Held by the Taliban" is a package that has been out to studios that aims to adapt a five-part New York Times series about David Rohde's experience as a captive of the Taliban in Afghanistan for seven months. (The reporter was kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues on Nov. 10, 2008, as they traveled to an interview with a Taliban commander outside of Kabul.)
Stephen Belber, who most recently wrote and directed the Jennifer Aniston comedy "Management," is attached to adapt, and Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall is attached to produce in a package that went out to certain studios.
Bigelow's name was linked to their package,...
Hot enough that mere interest in the project has sent waves across the town and the Internet, making it seem that the director of "The Hurt Locker" is attached to something she is not. And she's not the only one, because Terrence Malick is also circling.
"Held by the Taliban" is a package that has been out to studios that aims to adapt a five-part New York Times series about David Rohde's experience as a captive of the Taliban in Afghanistan for seven months. (The reporter was kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues on Nov. 10, 2008, as they traveled to an interview with a Taliban commander outside of Kabul.)
Stephen Belber, who most recently wrote and directed the Jennifer Aniston comedy "Management," is attached to adapt, and Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall is attached to produce in a package that went out to certain studios.
Bigelow's name was linked to their package,...
- 1/15/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New Yorker Films
New Yorker assets were auctioned off on March 12 by Technicolor. Meanwhile The Cinema Guild will launch a new home video label with two titles originally slated to go through New Yorker Home Video. The first release will be Christian Petzold’s Yella on March 31, and the second will be Alexander Sokurov’s Alexandra on April 28. The Cinema Guild will take over the distribution of three other titles, recently released through New Yorker Home Video, The Order of Myths and The Unforeseen - both Independent Spirit Award winners, and Primo Levi’s Journey.
Cinetic Rights Management recently closed a deal with Cinema Guild to help distribute their video titles online. This will begin in April with titles such as The Unforeseen. The films will be released on portals such as iTunes, Amazon VOD, Hulu, SnagFilms, Joost, and more.
Zeitgeist Films also made a related deal, acquiring the company’s Three Monkeys.
It is New Yorker Films' sincere hope that the purchaser of their assets will be a well qualified distributor with the intention and ability to manage and distribute the films in a manner consistent with New Yorker Film's 43 year history in the independent film world.
Cinetic Rights Management recently closed a deal with Cinema Guild to help distribute their video titles online. This will begin in April with titles such as The Unforeseen. The films will be released on portals such as iTunes, Amazon VOD, Hulu, SnagFilms, Joost, and more.
Zeitgeist Films also made a related deal, acquiring the company’s Three Monkeys.
It is New Yorker Films' sincere hope that the purchaser of their assets will be a well qualified distributor with the intention and ability to manage and distribute the films in a manner consistent with New Yorker Film's 43 year history in the independent film world.
- 3/13/2009
- Sydney's Buzz
By Michael Atkinson
The British have a thing about underage sociopathy -- we in the U.S. will puzzle and wonder as a culture about the latest school shooter or the very occasional death-metal bogus-ritual killing, but in tabloid-crazy England a news story of a child murdering a child pinches very powerful nerve endings, and the social wound of it is felt universally and lasts for years, if not indefinitely. While the American character, often amnesiac and marinated in ideas of personal freedom and frontier independence, tends to take these things in stride (does anyone even off-handedly remember the name of that Virginia Tech psycho?), the convention-loving Brits are commonly, in contrast, traumatized for good. (There's a reason England is the most surveillance-saturated nation in the world.) This is the underlying dynamic of John Crowley's adroit and heartfelt "Boy A" (2007), which is inspired at least in part by the 1993 abduction and killing,...
The British have a thing about underage sociopathy -- we in the U.S. will puzzle and wonder as a culture about the latest school shooter or the very occasional death-metal bogus-ritual killing, but in tabloid-crazy England a news story of a child murdering a child pinches very powerful nerve endings, and the social wound of it is felt universally and lasts for years, if not indefinitely. While the American character, often amnesiac and marinated in ideas of personal freedom and frontier independence, tends to take these things in stride (does anyone even off-handedly remember the name of that Virginia Tech psycho?), the convention-loving Brits are commonly, in contrast, traumatized for good. (There's a reason England is the most surveillance-saturated nation in the world.) This is the underlying dynamic of John Crowley's adroit and heartfelt "Boy A" (2007), which is inspired at least in part by the 1993 abduction and killing,...
- 10/7/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
The Unforeseen
Cinema Guild
NEW YORK -- An unusually poetic and meditative eco-themed documentary, Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen is as beautiful as it is ultimately depressing.
The influence of executive producer Terrence Malick is apparent in this gorgeously shot examination of a disastrous example of the way that urban development wreaks havoc on the environment. A recent prize winner at Film Independent's Spirit Awards, the film is playing an exclusive engagement at New York's Cinema Village before its national rollout.
The events depicted in the docu span several decades and center on a beloved swimming hole in Austin, Texas. For decades a pristine example of natural beauty amid an urban setting, Barton Springs was irreversibly damaged by a housing development that started in the 1970s and which became a cornerstone of the conflict between community activists and the forces of big business. Opposed in its beginning stages by then-Gov. Ann Richards, the development was allowed free reign after George W. Bush became governor.
Much of the docu's human drama stems from one of the central figures in the story, an ambitious developer named Gary Bradley who assumed control of about 4,000 acres along the waterfront. Interviewed on camera, a tearful Bradley expresses great regret, not for any environmental damage the development caused but because of his eventual bankruptcy caused by factors like the savings and loan crisis.
At times the docu is a bit too leisurely and meandering for its own good, with the filmmaker indulging in slightly too many (admittedly stunning) nature shots. There also is an unnecessary celebrity quotient in the form of interviews with Austin native Willie Nelson and Robert Redford (who also serves as executive producer), the latter recalling his idyllic youthful days spent swimming at Barton Creek and decrying what has become of it.
NEW YORK -- An unusually poetic and meditative eco-themed documentary, Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen is as beautiful as it is ultimately depressing.
The influence of executive producer Terrence Malick is apparent in this gorgeously shot examination of a disastrous example of the way that urban development wreaks havoc on the environment. A recent prize winner at Film Independent's Spirit Awards, the film is playing an exclusive engagement at New York's Cinema Village before its national rollout.
The events depicted in the docu span several decades and center on a beloved swimming hole in Austin, Texas. For decades a pristine example of natural beauty amid an urban setting, Barton Springs was irreversibly damaged by a housing development that started in the 1970s and which became a cornerstone of the conflict between community activists and the forces of big business. Opposed in its beginning stages by then-Gov. Ann Richards, the development was allowed free reign after George W. Bush became governor.
Much of the docu's human drama stems from one of the central figures in the story, an ambitious developer named Gary Bradley who assumed control of about 4,000 acres along the waterfront. Interviewed on camera, a tearful Bradley expresses great regret, not for any environmental damage the development caused but because of his eventual bankruptcy caused by factors like the savings and loan crisis.
At times the docu is a bit too leisurely and meandering for its own good, with the filmmaker indulging in slightly too many (admittedly stunning) nature shots. There also is an unnecessary celebrity quotient in the form of interviews with Austin native Willie Nelson and Robert Redford (who also serves as executive producer), the latter recalling his idyllic youthful days spent swimming at Barton Creek and decrying what has become of it.
- 3/5/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Thursday Feb 28th:. NYC: Two more ops to catch a Q&A with Ramin Bahrani for Chop Shop. Click here for showtimes. Friday Feb 29th:. Claude Lelouch will kick off the 13th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (Feb. 29 – March 9) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater and IFC Center. See Roman de Gare at the Walter Reade Theater, at 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Saturday March 1st:. The Cinema Guild releases as of yesterday, Laura Dunn's excellent Sundance docu The Unforeseen in limited theater run. Sunday March 2nd:. Check your local listings for Oscar-winning documentary film by Alex Gibney Taxi to the Dark Side. Monday March 3rd:. Day Off. Tuesday March 4th:. DVD: Into the Wild (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition): includes features entitled: The Story, The Characters and The Experience. Wednesday March 5th:. NYC: David Gordon Green talks Snow Angels at the Apple Store - SoHo,
- 2/28/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- The toast of the town is Diablo Cody and the gift she gave to Jason Reitman. Juno picks up a trio of awards and trailing with two awards each is another Fox Searchlight flick The Savages and the Cannes Julian Schnabel and his cinematographer were well rewarded for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly's aesthetic brilliance. Here is the complete list of noms and winners below. Best Feature: Juno Best Director: Julian Schnabel Best First Feature: The Lookout Best Documentary: Crazy Love Best Foreign Film: Once Best Female Lead: Ellen Page Best Male Lead: Philip Seymour Hoffman Best Supporting Female: Cate Blanchett Best Supporting Male: Chiwetel Ejiofor Best Screenplay: The Savages Best First Screenplay: Juno Best Cinematography: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly John Cassavetes Award: August Evening August Evening Writer/Director: Chris Eska Producers: Connie Hill, Jason Wehling Owl and the Sparrow Writer/Director: Stephane Gauger Producers: Nguyen Van Quan,
- 2/23/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- In recent years I've often criticized the Academy Awards for not having the foresight and fortitude to include docu films that have not only completely reinvigorated the genre, but have pushed the medium to new possible artistic and narrative terrains. This year's short list of 15 titles only further confirms that the Academy has tremendous difficulty in acknowledging the wider scope of films that merit year-end salutations. The formula for the docu-filmmaking and docu movie-going experience has significantly changed since Y2K, yet the most prestigious award film ceremony seems to come up short when it comes to new trends in storytelling and filmmaking. Today IndieWIRE reports Aj Schnack will collaborate with online independent film distributor IndiePix to launch a new nonfiction filmmaking awards event, set for March 18, 2008 at IFC Center in New York City. Below you find a Top 15 list of films that will be nominated for eight categories,
- 1/7/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Underrated, overlooked, and mostly unknown, I’ve decided to highlight my four favorite award sections separately from today’s lengthy list of Indie Spirit noms. Why? because a). I haven’t heard of half these films and want to further research them, b). I want to add the missing titles to the Ioncinema.com database and c). I think it’s in the best interests of indie film lovers to familiarize themselves with the budding/future talent. Commencing with the John Cassavetes award noms (the name of this section says it all) which is given to the best feature made for under $500,000; and followed by the noms for my favorite category the Someone to Watch Award and the listings for the Truer Than Fiction Award the Producers Award.August Evening is a two-time nominee thanks to the votes going to actor Pedro Castaneda. Owl and the Sparrow was actually
- 11/28/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Cinema Guild snaps up 'Unforeseen'
NEW YORK -- The Cinema Guild has acquired The Unforeseen, an environmental documentary set in America's heartland from exec producers Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, for U.S. distribution.
Laura Dunn's feature debut follows Gary Bradley, a onetime Texas farm boy who created miles of Austin subdivision housing in the 1980s and '90s. The film looks at the fight over his large-scale development at a nearby pure water source backed by George W. Bush's state administration.
Malick (Badlands, The Thin Red Line) persuaded his fellow Austin director Dunn to make Unforseen after seeing her Student Academy Award-winning environmental docu short Green. The film premiered at Redford's Sundance Film Festival in January and was an official selection of the South by Southwest Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. It was produced by Dunn, Douglas Sewell and Jeff Sewell.
The Cinema Guild plans a New York and Los Angeles theatrical release in the fall, followed by a platform release around the country.
Laura Dunn's feature debut follows Gary Bradley, a onetime Texas farm boy who created miles of Austin subdivision housing in the 1980s and '90s. The film looks at the fight over his large-scale development at a nearby pure water source backed by George W. Bush's state administration.
Malick (Badlands, The Thin Red Line) persuaded his fellow Austin director Dunn to make Unforseen after seeing her Student Academy Award-winning environmental docu short Green. The film premiered at Redford's Sundance Film Festival in January and was an official selection of the South by Southwest Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. It was produced by Dunn, Douglas Sewell and Jeff Sewell.
The Cinema Guild plans a New York and Los Angeles theatrical release in the fall, followed by a platform release around the country.
- 8/28/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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