This is a tough awards season! Lots of great movies to see, so little time! I'm catching up like crazy before we vote for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards for the Broadcast Film Critics Association. So I apologize if I haven't updated you with the latest on the awards season 2013-2014! And there were many award-giving bodies announcing nominations.
We already told you about the Rome Film Festival and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, now let's talk about the 2013 Gotham Awards, the Ida Documentary Awards, the Cinema Eye, and the Producers Guild announcing its best documentary choices.
First stop, we have the 2013 Gotham Awards where Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" topped the nominations with three nods including best feature, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and breakthrough actor for Lupita Nyong'o.
Winners will be announced on Dec. 2nd where Richard Linklater, Forest Whitaker, and Katherine Oliver (head of the NYC...
We already told you about the Rome Film Festival and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, now let's talk about the 2013 Gotham Awards, the Ida Documentary Awards, the Cinema Eye, and the Producers Guild announcing its best documentary choices.
First stop, we have the 2013 Gotham Awards where Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" topped the nominations with three nods including best feature, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and breakthrough actor for Lupita Nyong'o.
Winners will be announced on Dec. 2nd where Richard Linklater, Forest Whitaker, and Katherine Oliver (head of the NYC...
- 12/2/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
On first glance, "Xmas Without China" seems to be a surprising next subject for Alicia Dwyer, the filmmaker who last brought us "Bully" and "Pandemic: Facing Aids." But the film's humor is filled with an undercurrent of social commentary, discussing America's reliance on foreign goods and our holiday traditions that blend to make one of the festival's more fascinating documentaries. What it's about: A Chinese immigrant challenges his American neighbors to survive the Christmas season without any Chinese products. Tell Us About Yourself: Alicia’s work recently appeared in theaters nation-wide in Bully, distributed by The Weinstein Company, for which she directed key material with the main character, Alex. Alicia was a director on The Calling, a four-hour PBS series that was a flagship of the 2010 Independent Lens season. She was associate producer of the 2004 Emmy Award-nominated HBO series Pandemic: Facing AIDS and of the 2001 Academy Award-winning feature...
- 3/7/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling.s The East has been selected as the Closing Night film for the 2013 South By Southwest Film Festival, it was revealed today. The annual event also revealed a handful of new titles that finally complete this year.s Film Conference lineup, including screenings of Alicia Dwyer.s documentary Xmas Without China and James Ponsoldt.s Sundance hit, The Spectacular Now. The East stars Marling (Another Earth) as a corporate spy tasked with infiltrating an environmental terrorism group known as The East. In her Sundance review, Katey called the movie .a small scale, welcome respite from the usual drone of Hollywood genre-- and yet another example of how Sundance breakout stars can get only better as their careers get bigger.. In addition, SXSW today confirmed a number of high-profile panels, including a conversations with Danny Boyle . who will be bringing footage from his latest, Trance, to...
- 2/13/2013
- cinemablend.com
The SXSW Film Festival announced Wednesday that Zal Batmanglij’s (Sound of My Voice) film The East will close the Festival on Saturday, March 16. Batmanglij co-wrote the script with Brit Marling. Starring Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, and Patricia Clarkson, the film follows a private intelligence operative trying to infiltrate a group of anarchists who are planning attacks on major corporations. But the operative’s loyalty to her mission wavers when she falls for the leader of the group.
The festival has also added a number of panels and films, including talks with the directors and casts of Joss Whedon...
The festival has also added a number of panels and films, including talks with the directors and casts of Joss Whedon...
- 2/13/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Hey y'all! How 'bout those "Hunger Games," huh? Obviously, everyone and their mom went last weekend to the child murder games, and we'll see if it has legs to keep going (we think it does), so if you have to catch up on that one, it is in theaters this weekend! If you already saw it, never fear, there are still creepy kid movies to be found in "Bully" and "Womb" (and "Mirror Mirror" does that count?) Fun! And if not, blockbuster season is officially open with "Wrath of the Titans." CGI-y! And for a nice change of pace, another entry in the classic hockey comedy canon, "Goon" hits U.S. theaters this weekend too. Won't you hit the ice with us?
Cardboard cutout Sam Worthington is back and wrathier than ever in "Wrath of the Titans"!! I feel like there should be heavy metal playing right now. Liam Neeson...
Cardboard cutout Sam Worthington is back and wrathier than ever in "Wrath of the Titans"!! I feel like there should be heavy metal playing right now. Liam Neeson...
- 3/30/2012
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
At one point in "Bully," a new documentary about the complex problem of bullying in American high schools, a mother of a bullied high schooler confesses that she feels like both she and her husband have failed their son Alex. He is constantly picked on when he rides the bus to school every morning. His mother briefly blames herself, saying that she doesn't feel like a good parent, before shifting the blame to her husband, an alpha male that we've previously seen encouraging Alex to confront his problem so that his younger sister won't have to suffer for his silence.
That tactic of shifting blame rather than openly discussing the root causes of bullying is typical of co-directors Lee Hirsch and Alicia Dwyer's crassly manipulative approach. "Bully" encourages viewers to wallow in the helplessness of the film's teenage victims and their parents.
To be clear: I don’t think...
That tactic of shifting blame rather than openly discussing the root causes of bullying is typical of co-directors Lee Hirsch and Alicia Dwyer's crassly manipulative approach. "Bully" encourages viewers to wallow in the helplessness of the film's teenage victims and their parents.
To be clear: I don’t think...
- 3/28/2012
- by Simon Abrams
- The Playlist
AMC, the second-largest chain in the country, will permit filmgoers under 17 to see film if they provide a permission slip
One of the Us's biggest cinema chains, AMC, has decided to allow minors to attend screenings of the controversial documentary Bully, which has been the subject of a certification battle in recent weeks.
AMC is the second-largest chain in the country, with over 5,000 screens, and will permit filmgoers under 17 to see the film if they provide a permission slip. This is in contrast to the policy of the third-largest chain, Cinemark, which has refused to show the film at all. The largest chain, Regal, has yet to state its plans.
Bully's certificate has been key to its controversial position. A film about high-school bullying by Lee Hirsch and Alicia Dwyer, it was refused a PG-13 rating by the MPAA due to its language, but producer Harvey Weinstein refused to...
One of the Us's biggest cinema chains, AMC, has decided to allow minors to attend screenings of the controversial documentary Bully, which has been the subject of a certification battle in recent weeks.
AMC is the second-largest chain in the country, with over 5,000 screens, and will permit filmgoers under 17 to see the film if they provide a permission slip. This is in contrast to the policy of the third-largest chain, Cinemark, which has refused to show the film at all. The largest chain, Regal, has yet to state its plans.
Bully's certificate has been key to its controversial position. A film about high-school bullying by Lee Hirsch and Alicia Dwyer, it was refused a PG-13 rating by the MPAA due to its language, but producer Harvey Weinstein refused to...
- 3/28/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
So this is how Harvey plans to get back the MPAA, to release it unrated. After a recent plea to the MPAA by Bully teen Alex Libby and The Weinstein Company (TWC) Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein failed – by one vote – to get the film its deserved PG-13 rating, TWC is choosing to move forward with releasing the film unrated by the MPAA on March 30. The Weinstein Company has officially announced that Lee Hirsch & Alicia Dwyer's documentary Bully will be released in limited New York & Los Angeles theaters starting this weekend, March 30th. If you've been curious to see this, now is the time to go see it - unrated - in theaters! The press release for the news contains some pretty harsh criticism of the MPAA's decision, stating: Furthering proof that the R rating for some language is inappropriate for a film that's meant to educate and ...
- 3/27/2012
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Into the Arms of Stranger: Stories of the Kindertransport, shown as part of the "Oscar’s Docs" series, at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood on Monday, November 2, 2009. Pictured above following the screening (left to right): Composer Lee Holdridge, Oscar-winning producer Deborah Oppenheimer, Oscar-winning writer/director Mark Jonathan Harris, editor Kate Amend and associate producer Alicia Dwyer. Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S. Oscar-winning producer/director Tracy Seretean, whose Big Mama was also screened at the Linwood Dunn on Nov. 2.
- 11/4/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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