A multi-part docuseres about Jimmy Hoffa is in development at Village Roadshow Unscripted Television, Variety has learned.
News of the show comes ahead of the 50th anniversary of Hoffa’s disappearance, which occurred on July 30, 1975. The series is being made with the full cooperation of the Hoffa family, including the assistance of his son and daughter. It will also feature access to Hoffa’s personal archives and previously unseen files, as well as audio tapes, personal films, and declassified FBI files. Erik Nelson will produce and direct.
“What caught our attention about Jimmy Hoffa’s story is that it is a compelling topic of interest and point of intrigue still for many,” said Shannon Perry, Village Roadshow Television’s executive vice president of reality & production services. It has all the elements of a captivating drama with power struggle, corruption, and a high-profile disappearance that also aligns with the kinds of impactful stories about notable,...
News of the show comes ahead of the 50th anniversary of Hoffa’s disappearance, which occurred on July 30, 1975. The series is being made with the full cooperation of the Hoffa family, including the assistance of his son and daughter. It will also feature access to Hoffa’s personal archives and previously unseen files, as well as audio tapes, personal films, and declassified FBI files. Erik Nelson will produce and direct.
“What caught our attention about Jimmy Hoffa’s story is that it is a compelling topic of interest and point of intrigue still for many,” said Shannon Perry, Village Roadshow Television’s executive vice president of reality & production services. It has all the elements of a captivating drama with power struggle, corruption, and a high-profile disappearance that also aligns with the kinds of impactful stories about notable,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Notorious mob consort Jimmy Hoffa is the subject of a new docuseries.
Hoffa, who led the Teamsters for around 15 years in the late ‘50s and ‘60s, disappeared on July 30, 1975, with many believing this was at the hands of the Mafia.
His family has now given Village Roadshow Unscripted Television and Erik Nelson exclusive access to the family, including his son and daughter, as well as his personal archives and files, including audio tapes, to develop a docuseries.
Nelson will produce and direct; he previously directed a number of films with Werner Herzog including Grizzly Man and has directed films such as The Cold Blue, Terror and Glory: 1945 and Daytime Revolution. He is repped by Travis Tammero at UTA and Marc Simon at Fox Rothschild.
Hoffa, who has been played by the likes of Al Pacino in The Irishman, Sylvester Stallone in F.I.S.T, and Jack Nicholson in Hoffa,...
Hoffa, who led the Teamsters for around 15 years in the late ‘50s and ‘60s, disappeared on July 30, 1975, with many believing this was at the hands of the Mafia.
His family has now given Village Roadshow Unscripted Television and Erik Nelson exclusive access to the family, including his son and daughter, as well as his personal archives and files, including audio tapes, to develop a docuseries.
Nelson will produce and direct; he previously directed a number of films with Werner Herzog including Grizzly Man and has directed films such as The Cold Blue, Terror and Glory: 1945 and Daytime Revolution. He is repped by Travis Tammero at UTA and Marc Simon at Fox Rothschild.
Hoffa, who has been played by the likes of Al Pacino in The Irishman, Sylvester Stallone in F.I.S.T, and Jack Nicholson in Hoffa,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were essential figures in the counterculture movement of the 1970s. Not only did their music embrace the avant-garde, but they also performed several publicity stunts, like the anti-war protest bed-ins. Lennon and Ono were seen as controversial figures on certain sides of the political aisle, and many were not pleased when the couple “hijacked” an American TV show in 1972.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on several episodes of ‘The Mike Douglas Show’ in 1972
After The Beatles ended in 1970, Lennon fully committed to voicing his politics in his music. While he had more subtle, calmer songs like “Imagine”, he also had more provocative and uncompromising songs like “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Power to the People”.
This made Lennon a not-so-popular figure with certain politicians, who didn’t want his counterculture brand to infect the youth. However, audiences were given a healthy dose of Lennon and...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on several episodes of ‘The Mike Douglas Show’ in 1972
After The Beatles ended in 1970, Lennon fully committed to voicing his politics in his music. While he had more subtle, calmer songs like “Imagine”, he also had more provocative and uncompromising songs like “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Power to the People”.
This made Lennon a not-so-popular figure with certain politicians, who didn’t want his counterculture brand to infect the youth. However, audiences were given a healthy dose of Lennon and...
- 7/23/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In “Apocalypse ’45,” we see images of World War II — the last six months of it, when our forces were engaged in a grisly death-throes battle with the Japanese in the Pacific — that are
American soldiers blast their flamethrowers into caves, the oily fire whipping around like something out of a dragon’s mouth. We’re shown the bombing of Tokyo from a mile over the city, the bombs exploding like clusters of orange dots on the map-like green landscape below. On Okinawa, grenades burst into mounds of curling black smoke, and we see a Japanese woman on the Mariana Islands jump off a cliff rather than allow herself to be taken alive. As for the city of Hiroshima, filmed seven months after the atomic bomb was dropped there, it’s a flattened, debris-strewn hellscape of desolation that looks like it could have been filmed yesterday. The documentary is also filled...
American soldiers blast their flamethrowers into caves, the oily fire whipping around like something out of a dragon’s mouth. We’re shown the bombing of Tokyo from a mile over the city, the bombs exploding like clusters of orange dots on the map-like green landscape below. On Okinawa, grenades burst into mounds of curling black smoke, and we see a Japanese woman on the Mariana Islands jump off a cliff rather than allow herself to be taken alive. As for the city of Hiroshima, filmed seven months after the atomic bomb was dropped there, it’s a flattened, debris-strewn hellscape of desolation that looks like it could have been filmed yesterday. The documentary is also filled...
- 8/15/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Apocalypse ‘45 Abramorama/ Discovery Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Erik Nelson Screenwriter: Erik Nelson Cast: Members of the Great Generation Who Fought in World War 2 Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 8/10/20 Opens: August 14, 2020 Two quotes in this film stand out from the members of […]
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- 8/14/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The United States celebrated the end of World War II with Victory in Japan Day on Aug. 14, 1945, exactly 75 years before the release of “Apocalypse ’45,” Erik Nelson’s examination of the war in the Pacific in the words and film footage of the men who were there.
But as that foreboding title suggests, you wouldn’t use a word like “celebrated” to refer to “Apocalypse ’45.” The documentary is a tribute to the men who fought, but it’s also an elegy for those who were lost, and it doesn’t evade questions about the reverberations that linger from the use of the two atomic bombs that helped end the war.
In some ways, it is a film about victory, illustrated with vivid, restored footage that was shot during the war but has largely sat unseen in the National Archives since then. But more than that, it is a film about loss and sacrifice,...
But as that foreboding title suggests, you wouldn’t use a word like “celebrated” to refer to “Apocalypse ’45.” The documentary is a tribute to the men who fought, but it’s also an elegy for those who were lost, and it doesn’t evade questions about the reverberations that linger from the use of the two atomic bombs that helped end the war.
In some ways, it is a film about victory, illustrated with vivid, restored footage that was shot during the war but has largely sat unseen in the National Archives since then. But more than that, it is a film about loss and sacrifice,...
- 8/14/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
In 2003, Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend, Amie Hugenard, were killed and eaten by a bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. The naturalist’s tragic end followed 13 years of living in the wilderness, where he studied animals through a quixotic style that traditional scientists deemed dangerous and irresponsible.
It also brought Werner Herzog to the masses. When “Grizzly Man” came out 15 years ago, the eccentric filmmaker was familiar to the arthouse circuit as a member of the German New Wave. His best-known work was released decades earlier, but Herzog continued cranking out idiosyncratic documentaries, mining for poetry in the natural world and humankind alike.
With Treadwell, Herzog found the ideal subject: a wild-eyed obsessive carving a unique path, fully aware that it could lead to self-destruction. The movie is a small wonder of non-fiction commentary, weaving Treadwell’s revealing home videos along with the filmmaker’s own entrancing observations about...
It also brought Werner Herzog to the masses. When “Grizzly Man” came out 15 years ago, the eccentric filmmaker was familiar to the arthouse circuit as a member of the German New Wave. His best-known work was released decades earlier, but Herzog continued cranking out idiosyncratic documentaries, mining for poetry in the natural world and humankind alike.
With Treadwell, Herzog found the ideal subject: a wild-eyed obsessive carving a unique path, fully aware that it could lead to self-destruction. The movie is a small wonder of non-fiction commentary, weaving Treadwell’s revealing home videos along with the filmmaker’s own entrancing observations about...
- 8/12/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
"They didn't care about us... they were there to sink the ships." Abramorama has released an official trailer for a restored WWII footage documentary titled Apocalypse '45, the latest film directed by acclaimed doc filmmaker Erik Nelson. Nelson found in archives and restored in 4K tons of old footage and news reels from World War II. Apocalypse '45 uses the pristine raw, color film footage to tell a chilling narrative of the last months of the War in the Pacific. It documents events from the flag raising at Iwo Jima to the harrowing kamikaze attacks and vicious ground combat at Okinawa in April to the first test of the atomic bomb in the remote deserts of New Mexico in July. In addition, we witness the air war over Japan the summer of '45, and perhaps most astonishingly, the still burning ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when a U.S. Army medical...
- 8/9/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Erik Nelson’s absorbing new documentary uses unseen footage shot by William Wyler for his 1944 film The Memphis Belle
Here is an interesting footnote to one of the great documentaries of the second world war era – The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944), William Wyler’s study of the B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, which flew hugely dangerous daytime raids into Germany from Raf Bassingbourn in Cambridgeshire. Wyler himself went with them and took the same risks as the combatants. Erik Nelson’s film recounts the discovery and subsequent digital restoration of the fascinating undiscovered footage that Wyler and his crew shot.
There is a succession of poignant images: very often of that piercingly blue sky – the hostile “cold blue” – in which the Memphis Belle and the other B-17s flew their missions. Perhaps the most arresting material is that showing civilian life in the ruins of Berlin in...
Here is an interesting footnote to one of the great documentaries of the second world war era – The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944), William Wyler’s study of the B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, which flew hugely dangerous daytime raids into Germany from Raf Bassingbourn in Cambridgeshire. Wyler himself went with them and took the same risks as the combatants. Erik Nelson’s film recounts the discovery and subsequent digital restoration of the fascinating undiscovered footage that Wyler and his crew shot.
There is a succession of poignant images: very often of that piercingly blue sky – the hostile “cold blue” – in which the Memphis Belle and the other B-17s flew their missions. Perhaps the most arresting material is that showing civilian life in the ruins of Berlin in...
- 6/26/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
As a film critic who also serves as a festival programmer I sometimes find myself in awkward positions. Such was the case recently at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in October, where A Gray State screened, along with the film’s director Erik Nelson and its executive producer Werner Herzog in attendance. Though I’d seen the film on screener, I didn’t have a strong opinion about it one way or another (and as I was only helping out with the international features this year my indifference didn’t much matter). Of course, asked to moderate the post-screening Q&A I jumped at the […]...
- 10/26/2017
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
What is a gray state? According to Minnesota filmmaker David Crowley, it’s the living environment between a police state and a dictatorship. That’s why he spent years making the film “A Gray State,” which became a Werner Herzog-produced documentary after the story took a much different path than originally anticipated.
Crowley, an Iraq veteran, began working on “A Gray State” in 2010. The fictional film takes place in a near-future dystopia where the civil rights of Americans are hostage to the brutalities of the federal government. When the crowd-funded trailer was released, it was well-received by the rising online community of libertarians, Tea Party activities, and conspiracists.
But in January of 2015, Crowley, his wife, and child were found shot to death in their Minnesota home. The unexplained, violent tragedy became subject to widespread conspiracy allegations that thought it could have been an assassination by someone inside the government.
Crowley, an Iraq veteran, began working on “A Gray State” in 2010. The fictional film takes place in a near-future dystopia where the civil rights of Americans are hostage to the brutalities of the federal government. When the crowd-funded trailer was released, it was well-received by the rising online community of libertarians, Tea Party activities, and conspiracists.
But in January of 2015, Crowley, his wife, and child were found shot to death in their Minnesota home. The unexplained, violent tragedy became subject to widespread conspiracy allegations that thought it could have been an assassination by someone inside the government.
- 10/23/2017
- by Raelyn Giansanti
- Indiewire
(Aotn) You’ve never seen the undead like you’ll see them in Asylum’s “Zoombies”! Shamblers, streakers and crawlers got nothing on these guys. This edition of Smt seems to be going to the dogs…
Check out the trailer and find your Cinemark theater for your Thursday 10/19 showing:
Zoombies Starring Marcus Anderson, Kaiwi Lyman, Kim Nielsen Playing Exclusively At Cinemark Theaters On October 19, 2017 When a strange virus quickly spreads through a safari park and turns all the zoo animals undead, those left in the park must stop the creatures before they escape and zombify the whole city. Zoombies Directed by: Glenn R. Miller Writer: Scotty Mullen Cast: Marcus Anderson, Kaiwi Lyman, Kim Nielsen Language: English Genre: Horror
Zoombies Theater Listings: Thursday, October 19 (One Night Only!)
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Check out the trailer and find your Cinemark theater for your Thursday 10/19 showing:
Zoombies Starring Marcus Anderson, Kaiwi Lyman, Kim Nielsen Playing Exclusively At Cinemark Theaters On October 19, 2017 When a strange virus quickly spreads through a safari park and turns all the zoo animals undead, those left in the park must stop the creatures before they escape and zombify the whole city. Zoombies Directed by: Glenn R. Miller Writer: Scotty Mullen Cast: Marcus Anderson, Kaiwi Lyman, Kim Nielsen Language: English Genre: Horror
Zoombies Theater Listings: Thursday, October 19 (One Night Only!)
Movies 16 + Xd (Lubbock, TX) Hollywood 17 (Mcallen, TX) College Station + Xd (College Station, TX) Tinseltown 17 (Erie, Pa) Cinemark Movies 16 + Xd (Somerdale, NJ) Movies 14 (Mishawaka, In) Cinemark Tinseltown 17 + Xd (Grapevine,...
- 10/12/2017
- by Jason Stewart
- Age of the Nerd
“A Gray State,” executive produced by acclaimed documentarian Werner Herzog, has been picked up by First Run Features, A&E IndieFilms announced Thursday. Director Erik Nelson’s documentary, which had its world premiere at this month’s Tribeca Film Festival, will receive a U.S. theatrical release this November for an awards push. Following its theatrical release, it will make its television debut on A&E. “A Gray State” follows the mysterious deaths of filmmaker David Crowley and his family. The Iraq War veteran began production on his film “Gray State” in 2010, which was set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by.
- 9/28/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
David Crowley was many things—”a visionary filmmaker, a political activist, an Iraq veteran, a family man—what documentarian Erik Nelson calls “an American hybrid.” In 2010, the up-and-coming voice in fringe politics embarked on a film project titled Gray State. Set in a dystopian near-future, the would-be project depicted a world where civil liberties were being violated by an overly powerful federal government, gaining a mass following from an online community of…...
- 4/28/2017
- Deadline
Right-wing media provocateur Alex Jones recently admitted in court that he’s merely “playing a character” — thereby lending an ironic subtext to Erik Nelson’s documentary about the deaths of aspiring filmmaker David Crowley and his family. Exploring the alt-right phenomenon through the prism of a conspiracy theory involving its subject’s demise, A Gray State, in which Jones makes a brief appearance, provides timely political commentary along with a fascinating true-life crime tale. The film recently received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
A veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Crowley had been working for years on a...
A veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Crowley had been working for years on a...
- 4/25/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Not long into Erik Nelson’s tightly-packed and disturbing documentary “A Gray State,” discussing a December 2015 murder-suicide in a Minneapolis suburb that left filmmaker David Crowley, his wife Komel, and their five-year-old daughter Raniya dead, local journalist Cory Zurowski noted that it was “catnip for conspiracy theorists.” Why? Because for several years, Crowley had been trying to make a feature film called “Gray State” that looked like something cooked up by a roomful of Alex Jones fans after a three-day Red Bull and Googling marathon.
Continue reading When Fantasies Kill: The Murderous Madness Of An Alt-Right Paranoiac In ‘A Gray State’ [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading When Fantasies Kill: The Murderous Madness Of An Alt-Right Paranoiac In ‘A Gray State’ [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 4/22/2017
- by Chris Barsanti
- The Playlist
Now in its sixteenth year, New York City’s own Tribeca Film Festival kicks off every spring with a wide variety of programming on offer, from an ever-expanding Vr installation to an enviable television lineup, but the bread and butter of the annual festival is still in its film slate. This year’s festival offers up plenty of returning favorites with new projects, alongside fresh faces itching to break out. From insightful documentaries to fanciful features, with a heavy dose of Gotham-centric films (hey, it is Tribeca after all), there’s plenty to dive into here, so we’ve culled the schedule for a few surefire hits.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 20 – 30. Check out some of our must-see picks below.
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“A Gray State”
It might be the craziest story...
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 20 – 30. Check out some of our must-see picks below.
Read More: Why ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is the Most Anticipated Screening of the Tribeca Film Festival
“A Gray State”
It might be the craziest story...
- 4/17/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
New documentaries on Whitney Houston, targeted Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, notorious Republican operative Roger Stone and a deceased alt-right filmmaker will premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, taking place April 19th through 30th.
Whitney: Can I Be Me marks the latest effort from controversial and acclaimed documentarian Nick Broomfield, whose previous music films include Kurt and Courtney and Biggie and Tupac. The film will explore Houston's remarkable rise and fall and features largely never-before-seen footage. While a spokesperson for Houston's family told Rolling Stone they are not involved in Broomfield's documentary,...
Whitney: Can I Be Me marks the latest effort from controversial and acclaimed documentarian Nick Broomfield, whose previous music films include Kurt and Courtney and Biggie and Tupac. The film will explore Houston's remarkable rise and fall and features largely never-before-seen footage. While a spokesperson for Houston's family told Rolling Stone they are not involved in Broomfield's documentary,...
- 3/2/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: National Geographic Channel wants to stay in business with Rob Lowe. After starring as President John F. Kennedy in last year’s Killing Kennedy and narrating The ’80s: The Decade That Made Us last spring, Ngc has signed Lowe to narrate the sequel. The ’90s: The Last Great Decade? will premiere over three nights in July on Ngc in the U.S., followed globally in 171 countries and on Spanish-language network Nat Geo Mundo “I’m excited to be back working with the team at National Geographic Channel, who continue to show their commitment to creating great, entertaining and thought-provoking television programming,” said Lowe. “No one has really examined the ’90s like this before, and I think viewers will be fascinated by the dramatic changes we’ve seen in even the small amount of time that’s passed since Y2K.” The ’90s revisits the pre 9/11 decade through 120 original interviews with eyewitnesses,...
- 4/23/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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
I think children of the 90's have the shared experience of being pelted with everything dinosaur. There was The Land Before Time, Jurassic Park, TV's Dinosaurs, and the many sequels that followed, not to mention museum exhibits and animatronic dinosaur experiences. At this point, I am predisposed to love dinosaur movies. How is it possible then that directors David Krentz and Erik Nelson with narrator Werner Herzog took a film about dinosaurs ripping each other limb-to-limb and made it so boring?
Dinotasia is a series of vignettes of mother dinosaurs protecting their babies, grown dinosaurs tearing each other apart, or dinosaur parents getting killed, leaving their baby dinosaurs behind. Between each vignette, Herzog provides ridiculous narration about how the world of dinosaurs is a stage and how there are no heroes or villains in nature. This is a series of dinosaurs fighting, and the film's narration is trying to convince...
Dinotasia is a series of vignettes of mother dinosaurs protecting their babies, grown dinosaurs tearing each other apart, or dinosaur parents getting killed, leaving their baby dinosaurs behind. Between each vignette, Herzog provides ridiculous narration about how the world of dinosaurs is a stage and how there are no heroes or villains in nature. This is a series of dinosaurs fighting, and the film's narration is trying to convince...
- 12/9/2012
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
One of my favorite documentaries this year, "Searching for Sugar Man," received top honors at the 2012 Ida Documentary Awards winning the Best Feature prize. The documentary about the search for the elusive musician, Rodriguez, is truly a brilliant film illuminating failed dreams and eventual redemption.
Here's the complete winners list of the 2012 Ida Documentary Awards:
Career Achievement Award
Arnold Shapiro
Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
David France
Pioneer Award
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program And Fund
Best Feature Award
Searching For Sugar Man
Director/Producer/Writer: Malik Bendjelloul
Producer: Simon Chinn
Executive Producer: John Battsek
Red Box Films, Sony Pictures Classics
Best Short Award
Saving Face
Director: Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Producers: David Coombe, Daniel Junge, Alison Greenberg, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sabiha Sumar
Co-Producers: Aaron Kopp, Fazeelat Aslam
Senior Producer: Lisa Heller (HBO)
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)
HBO Documentary Films, Milkhaus, LLC, and JungeFilm, LLC
Best Limited Series Award...
Here's the complete winners list of the 2012 Ida Documentary Awards:
Career Achievement Award
Arnold Shapiro
Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
David France
Pioneer Award
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program And Fund
Best Feature Award
Searching For Sugar Man
Director/Producer/Writer: Malik Bendjelloul
Producer: Simon Chinn
Executive Producer: John Battsek
Red Box Films, Sony Pictures Classics
Best Short Award
Saving Face
Director: Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Producers: David Coombe, Daniel Junge, Alison Greenberg, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sabiha Sumar
Co-Producers: Aaron Kopp, Fazeelat Aslam
Senior Producer: Lisa Heller (HBO)
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)
HBO Documentary Films, Milkhaus, LLC, and JungeFilm, LLC
Best Limited Series Award...
- 12/8/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
About five minutes into David Krentz & Erik Nelson's CG animated feature, Dinotasia, the thought occurred to me that this film didn't look any better than any number of Discovery Channel TV programs. Suffice it to say, I was not surprised to learn Dinotasia does, in fact, find its origins in a Discovery Channel series titled Dinosaur Revolution. That being said, I'm a fan of those programs. My son and I watch shows like Clash of the Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, and Monsters Resurrected all the time. However, this film was marketed as a stand alone feature, and I feel as though that is a bit of a sketchy description.The ideas behind Dinotasia are certainly interesting. The filmmakers wanted to create short vignettes following one or two...
- 11/8/2012
- Screen Anarchy
I’ll admit I had no idea what Dinotasia was until I read the following press release, and since then, it’s climbed up my Netflix queue like Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger. Or something that climbs well. The feature length animated film is co-directed by Werner Herzog as well as narrated by the guy (who has one of the top 24 voices in showbiz), and described as Sopranos meets prehistoric times. It has psychedelic drugs, violence, and some awesome visuals. Really, why hadn’t I heard of this before?! Get onboard people. It’s out now on DVD and Blu-Ray. Check out the press release, a trailer, and the cool poster.
From the Press Release:
Creative Differences announces the Tuesday, November 6, 2012, release of Dinotasia, an animated feature film narrated by Werner Herzog, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada through Flatiron Film Company, a label of...
From the Press Release:
Creative Differences announces the Tuesday, November 6, 2012, release of Dinotasia, an animated feature film narrated by Werner Herzog, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada through Flatiron Film Company, a label of...
- 11/7/2012
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The Movie -
The dinosaur has been a fascination with myself, like with so many both young and old. Such magnificent, yet enigmatic beasts that can only be imagined by those uneducated in the paleontological studies, the experts themselves cannot agree and are constantly finding themselves rewriting the textbooks on a species of creature hundreds of thousands, even millions of years prior to our very existence. This alone, on its very surface, is enough to call me thoroughly captivated.
Steven Spielberg first captured and capitalized on the possibilities of what I may call dino-tainment in 1993 with Jurassic Park. Even today, some nearly 20 years later, the film holds up spectacularly to the test of time. However, its the dinosaur itself whom truly stands the ultimate test of time. From cartoons and TV shows, children’s toys and public broadcasting specials, from the absolutely absurd to the most numbing narratives, dinosaurs never went extinct in our minds.
The dinosaur has been a fascination with myself, like with so many both young and old. Such magnificent, yet enigmatic beasts that can only be imagined by those uneducated in the paleontological studies, the experts themselves cannot agree and are constantly finding themselves rewriting the textbooks on a species of creature hundreds of thousands, even millions of years prior to our very existence. This alone, on its very surface, is enough to call me thoroughly captivated.
Steven Spielberg first captured and capitalized on the possibilities of what I may call dino-tainment in 1993 with Jurassic Park. Even today, some nearly 20 years later, the film holds up spectacularly to the test of time. However, its the dinosaur itself whom truly stands the ultimate test of time. From cartoons and TV shows, children’s toys and public broadcasting specials, from the absolutely absurd to the most numbing narratives, dinosaurs never went extinct in our minds.
- 11/5/2012
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Dinotasia is a feature-length animated film with narration by Werner Herzog being released November 6th on DVD/Blue-ray and digital platforms, and while you can't quite call it horror, dinosaurs + violence/sex/psychedelics + Herzog = a unique sub-category that we think will appeal to a lot of you.
From the Press Release:
Creative Differences announces the Tuesday, November 6, 2012, release of Dinotasia, an animated feature film narrated by Werner Herzog, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada through Flatiron Film Company, a label of Cinedigm Entertainment Group (Nasdaq: Cidm). A marriage between classic visual storytelling and CGI dinosaurs, the film is an anthology of humorous prehistoric stories created in the cartoon-style of the Golden Age of animation. The film is co-directed by long-time Herzog collaborator Erik Nelson and Disney character designer David Krentz. The DVD/Blue-ray includes the 83-minute feature film plus an extended scene, a mating rites extra story,...
From the Press Release:
Creative Differences announces the Tuesday, November 6, 2012, release of Dinotasia, an animated feature film narrated by Werner Herzog, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada through Flatiron Film Company, a label of Cinedigm Entertainment Group (Nasdaq: Cidm). A marriage between classic visual storytelling and CGI dinosaurs, the film is an anthology of humorous prehistoric stories created in the cartoon-style of the Golden Age of animation. The film is co-directed by long-time Herzog collaborator Erik Nelson and Disney character designer David Krentz. The DVD/Blue-ray includes the 83-minute feature film plus an extended scene, a mating rites extra story,...
- 11/4/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Before it's due out on DVD/Blu-ray on November 6, Dinotasia will have a one-week theatrical run at the IFC Center in New York from October 26 to November 1. The film is co-directed by long-time Herzog collaborator/producer Erik Nelson and Disney character designer David Krentz (John Carter and Dinosaur). A love letter to fans of graphic novel-style film vignettes and classic film animation, Dinotasia gives one of our favorite natural history subjects a makeover like never before, told in a purely visual style not seen since the classic era of silent filmmaking or the pioneering early work of Walt Disney Studios. Based on current research findings from recent paleontology studies, Dinotosia uses groundbreaking CGI to bring to magnificent, terrifying life many creatures that have been discovered in the past 10...
- 10/11/2012
- Screen Anarchy
★★☆☆☆ A heady combination of Werner Herzog and dinosaurs should be enough to draw people to David Krentz and Erik Nelson's pseudo-documentary Dinotasia (2012), a dramatic retelling of a the age of the 'terrible lizards', leading up to the destruction of these prehistoric titans by a giant meteor crashing into the Earth. Sadly, this rambling retelling of the dinosaur's epic story quickly succeeds in dashing any positive expectations.
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- 8/28/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Dinotasia
Narrated by Werner Herzog | Written and Directed by David Krentz, Erik Nelson
Dinotasia is a strange beast, and this is even before we start to talk about the dinosaurs that populate the film. Narrated by Werner Herzog with a script that will somewhat confuse you, especially when this is being described as a documentary this is quite a unique look at the world of the dinosaur. If anything, you can at least say that any film narrated by Werner Herzog is going to be interesting.
We learn more about dinosaurs almost every day; fossils are found around the world, evidence is found to show us how they lived and as technology advances we are able to look into the lives of creates that lived millions of years before we even existed. Dinotasia takes a different view for a documentary of dinosaurs and looks at their everyday lives and the adventures they went on,...
Narrated by Werner Herzog | Written and Directed by David Krentz, Erik Nelson
Dinotasia is a strange beast, and this is even before we start to talk about the dinosaurs that populate the film. Narrated by Werner Herzog with a script that will somewhat confuse you, especially when this is being described as a documentary this is quite a unique look at the world of the dinosaur. If anything, you can at least say that any film narrated by Werner Herzog is going to be interesting.
We learn more about dinosaurs almost every day; fossils are found around the world, evidence is found to show us how they lived and as technology advances we are able to look into the lives of creates that lived millions of years before we even existed. Dinotasia takes a different view for a documentary of dinosaurs and looks at their everyday lives and the adventures they went on,...
- 8/26/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Dinosaurs may have died out 65 million years ago but mankind's knowledge about them continues to evolve and they remain an endless source of fascination and feature film material.
It's now widely accepted that many had plumage and in January the largest feathered dinosaur known was discovered in China. Yutyrannus huali (pictured above; click for a larger version) measured almost 30ft in length and weighed more than a tonne; it was a close cousin of T.rex but, unlike its famous relative, fossils show it was covered in downy feathers to keep it warm.
If Hollywood is taking note, maybe these latest discoveries will make it into Spielberg's planned Jurassic Park 4 or Barry Sonnenfeld's planned Dominion: Dinosaurs vs Aliens.
But in the meantime, there are other prehistoric-themed projects to sink your teeth into.
This Friday, May 4, sees the cinema release of Dinotasia, directed by David Krentz and Erik Nelson and...
It's now widely accepted that many had plumage and in January the largest feathered dinosaur known was discovered in China. Yutyrannus huali (pictured above; click for a larger version) measured almost 30ft in length and weighed more than a tonne; it was a close cousin of T.rex but, unlike its famous relative, fossils show it was covered in downy feathers to keep it warm.
If Hollywood is taking note, maybe these latest discoveries will make it into Spielberg's planned Jurassic Park 4 or Barry Sonnenfeld's planned Dominion: Dinosaurs vs Aliens.
But in the meantime, there are other prehistoric-themed projects to sink your teeth into.
This Friday, May 4, sees the cinema release of Dinotasia, directed by David Krentz and Erik Nelson and...
- 5/2/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
I don't know what fossil records contributed to the making of the series of CG-animated vignettes that make up Dinotasia, but it seems directors Erik Nelson and David Krentz found some evidence of a dead triceratops stabbing, an arm-ripping incident and other various dinosaur-on-dinosaur violence courtesy of today's palaeontologists. After that they teamed up with Werner Herzog to narrate the whole thing, which will open in London on May 4, which must be why The Avengers is opening on April 26 across the pond rather than its stateside May 4 debut. No sense in competing with this. The animation in this feature was originally created for the Discovery Channel series "Dinosaur Revolution" which aired last September, but not as it was originally intended. The trivia section at IMDb offers some interesting information on the production: ["Dinosaur Revolution" was originally] intended to be a comedic but more adult-oriented and silent animated show with no narration, until the Discovery Channel...
- 4/23/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
"It may not be true that 'the three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic,' as one historian has put it, but it's not much of an exaggeration," writes Daniel Mendelsohn in this week's New Yorker. "Since the early morning of April 15, 1912, when the great liner went to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with it five grand pianos, eight thousand dinner forks, an automobile, a fifty-line telephone switchboard, twenty-nine boilers, a jeweled copy of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, and more than fifteen hundred lives, the writing hasn't stopped."
What follows is an epic and irresistibly readable survey of 100 years' worth of Titanic lore. The disaster immediately inspired a "glut" of poems, "more than a hundred songs," countless histories, novels and plays and, of course, innumerable films, both narrative and documentary:
A scant month after the sinking, a one-reel movie...
What follows is an epic and irresistibly readable survey of 100 years' worth of Titanic lore. The disaster immediately inspired a "glut" of poems, "more than a hundred songs," countless histories, novels and plays and, of course, innumerable films, both narrative and documentary:
A scant month after the sinking, a one-reel movie...
- 4/10/2012
- MUBI
Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA. Oscar-nominated feature filmmaker Werner Herzog (whose projects have included the acclaimed documentaries Grizzly Man and Into The Abyss) has a new series of films coming to cable’s Investigation Discovery under the title On Death Row. Premiering later this year, the limited series has Herzog interviewing death row inmates in Florida and Texas to “look into the dark recesses of the human soul,” as Herzog told Deadline in an exclusive interview prior to a TCA session this afternoon. Interestingly, the series evolved from what began as a single film with Into The Abyss. On Death Row is a spare, bleak story literally devoid of bells and whistles — just Herzog’s disembodied narration with unadorned images from Herzog’s one-on-one interviews with four death row killers. And while some will find it odd that a filmmaker of Herzog’s renown could...
- 1/14/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The Cinema Eye Honors revealed the nominees for the 5th Annual Awards honoring Non-Fiction Filmmaking. Winners will be announced on January 11. Here's the list of the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors:
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking:
"The Arbor," Directed by Clio Barnard, Produced by Tracy O.Riordan
"Senna," Directed by Asif Kapadia; Produced by James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
"Project Nim," Directed by James Marsh, Produced by Simon Chinn
"Position Among the Stars," Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich, Produced by Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
"Nostalgia for the Light," Directed by Patricio Guzmán, Produced by Renate Sachse
"The Interrupters," Directed by Steve James, Produced by Alex Kotlowitz and Steve James
Outstanding Achievement in Direction:
Clio Barnard for "The Arbor"
Leonard Retel Helmrich for "Position Among the Stars"
Patricio Guzmán for "Nostalgia for the Light"
Steve James for "The Interrupters"
Danfung Dennis for "Hell and Back Again"
Outstanding Achievement in Production:
Erik Nelson...
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking:
"The Arbor," Directed by Clio Barnard, Produced by Tracy O.Riordan
"Senna," Directed by Asif Kapadia; Produced by James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
"Project Nim," Directed by James Marsh, Produced by Simon Chinn
"Position Among the Stars," Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich, Produced by Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
"Nostalgia for the Light," Directed by Patricio Guzmán, Produced by Renate Sachse
"The Interrupters," Directed by Steve James, Produced by Alex Kotlowitz and Steve James
Outstanding Achievement in Direction:
Clio Barnard for "The Arbor"
Leonard Retel Helmrich for "Position Among the Stars"
Patricio Guzmán for "Nostalgia for the Light"
Steve James for "The Interrupters"
Danfung Dennis for "Hell and Back Again"
Outstanding Achievement in Production:
Erik Nelson...
- 12/11/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Werner Herzog is easily one of the most prolific filmmakers of his generation and continues to make films that are both compelling and mysterious examinations of the human soul. With thematic threads that connect together his massive body of work, Herzog has been searching for the elusive ecstatic truth of humanity. For the near 70-year old filmmaker, opportunity presents itself in the most odd and unusual places. Just earlier this year, he took on us a voyage into the depths of a pre-historic cave that became a metaphor for the inherent artistic spirit in the recess of our mind, a universal truth that resounded further thanks to Herzog’s signature personal musings.
With Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life, the director stays back and lets the camera and his subject do the rest. It’s a haunting work from one of cinema’s masters...
With Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life, the director stays back and lets the camera and his subject do the rest. It’s a haunting work from one of cinema’s masters...
- 11/11/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
In a ceremony last night at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in London the nominees were announced for the 5th annual Cinema Eye Honors. Complete list of nominees are below.
Recognizing the best in nonfiction work, this year marks the first time six films will be vying for the top prize.
33 films from 12 countries are among this year’s nominees, including four nominations for seven films (The Arbor, Dragonslayer, Hell and Back Again, The Interrupters, Nostalgia for the Light, Position Among the Stars and Senna) and four individual nominations for The Interrupters‘ director Steve James.
Winners will be announced on January 11, 2012 as Cinema Eye returns for a second year to New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Learn more at cinemaeyehonors.com.
2012 Cinema Eye Honors Nominees
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
The Arbor
Directed by Clio Barnard
Produced by Tracy O’Riordan
The Interrupters
Directed...
Recognizing the best in nonfiction work, this year marks the first time six films will be vying for the top prize.
33 films from 12 countries are among this year’s nominees, including four nominations for seven films (The Arbor, Dragonslayer, Hell and Back Again, The Interrupters, Nostalgia for the Light, Position Among the Stars and Senna) and four individual nominations for The Interrupters‘ director Steve James.
Winners will be announced on January 11, 2012 as Cinema Eye returns for a second year to New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.
Learn more at cinemaeyehonors.com.
2012 Cinema Eye Honors Nominees
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
The Arbor
Directed by Clio Barnard
Produced by Tracy O’Riordan
The Interrupters
Directed...
- 10/27/2011
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
"Into the Abyss, [Werner] Herzog's latest extraordinary documentary, looks at first like the kind of true-crime shocker you can easily find on cable television," writes Ao Scott. "It explores a particularly senseless triple homicide that took place in Conroe, Tex., a decade ago, and consists almost entirely of conversations with people close to the killings, including Michael Perry, who was convicted of killing one of the victims. He is interviewed as he awaits execution, and the ethics of the death penalty, which Mr Herzog avowedly opposes, is among the film's concerns. But Into the Abyss — which, Mr Herzog noted as he introduced a screening of it, 'could be the title of quite a few of my films' — is less a piece of political advocacy than a somber inquiry into familiar Herzogian themes of death, violence and time."
Also in the New York Times, Michael Cieply talks with Herzog and his producer,...
Also in the New York Times, Michael Cieply talks with Herzog and his producer,...
- 9/6/2011
- MUBI
There’s basically no chance on Earth that a new documentary from Werner Herzog wouldn’t be acquired by somebody, but I am a little surprised that it happened before the film even made its debut at Tiff. A press release announces that the film, Into the Abyss, has been acquired by Sundance Selects for North American distribution. (The original title was Gazing into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life, but it seems to have been cut down for the sake of brevity.)
Focusing on three death row inmates, two men and one woman, we’ve heard some (unpleasant) details on the subject matter, while interview clips surfaced online. It sounds like he’s really going to examine this without shying away from the worst aspects, which he should absolutely do; it needs to present the truth of the matter, not a lighter version. I’m...
Focusing on three death row inmates, two men and one woman, we’ve heard some (unpleasant) details on the subject matter, while interview clips surfaced online. It sounds like he’s really going to examine this without shying away from the worst aspects, which he should absolutely do; it needs to present the truth of the matter, not a lighter version. I’m...
- 9/2/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
New York, NY (September 1, 2011) – Sundance Selects announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to acclaimed documentarian Werner Herzog’s upcoming film, Into The Abyss. The documentary, produced by Erik Nelson (Cave Of Forgotten Dreams) and executive produced by Dave Harding, Amy Briamonte, Henry Schleiff, Sara Kozak, Andre Singer, and Lucki Stipetic, explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, probing the psyches of those involved, including the 28-year old death row inmate who was executed just 8 days after appearing on-screen. Herzog’s inquiries unveil layers of humanity against an American Gothic landscape. As he’s so often done before, Herzog makes an enlightening trip out of ominous territory. Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films, said: “Earlier this year, Werner Herzog took us to unseen Chauvet Cave in Cave Of Forgotten Dreams which became one of our company’s most successful releases and the year’s highest grossing documentary.
- 9/1/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Discovery’s four-part Dinosaur Revolution (premiering Sept. 4 and Sept. 11) is a new kind of dinosaur documentary. Produced by award-winning filmmaker Erik Nelson (Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Grizzly Man), the visual look was created by renowned dinosaur artists with graphic novel and feature film backgrounds including Dave Krentz (Disney’s Dinosaur, John Carter), Ricardo Delgado (Dark Horse Comics’ Age of Reptiles), Iain McCaig (Star Wars Ep. I, II, III) and Pete Von Sholly (The Mask, Darkman). Behaviors, including exotic mating dances (Gigantoraptor, a dinosaur resembling a 17-foot tall turkey) and the underwater birthing of a huge marine reptile called Mosasaurus, are explored in vignettes.
- 8/30/2011
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Yesterday we reported that HBO had announced it's Comic-Con panels for Game of Thrones and True Blood. Today, thanks to TV Line we have the list of other TV shows scheduled to be at this years Con. Check out the full list below and share your thoughts!
Thursday, July 21
7 pm Penn & Teller Tell a Lie
Awake - Cast: Jason Isaacs; Producers: Howard Gordon, Kyle Killen
Game of Thrones
Beavis & Butthead
Covert Affairs
Napoleon Dynamite
Psych
Friday, July 22
10 am Torchwood: Miracle Day - Cast: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Bill Pullman, Mekhi Phifer, Alexa Havins, Lauren Ambrose; Producers: Jane Espenson
5:45 pm Spartacus: Vengeance - Cast: Liam McIntyre, Lucy Lawless, Dustin Clare, Manu Bennett, Katrina Lawand; Producers: Steven S. DeKnight
8 pm Discovery’s Reign of the Dinosaurs - Producers: Erik Nelson, David Krentz, Ricardo Delgado
Bob’s Burgers - Cast: Voice talent Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal; Producers: Loren Bouchard,...
Thursday, July 21
7 pm Penn & Teller Tell a Lie
Awake - Cast: Jason Isaacs; Producers: Howard Gordon, Kyle Killen
Game of Thrones
Beavis & Butthead
Covert Affairs
Napoleon Dynamite
Psych
Friday, July 22
10 am Torchwood: Miracle Day - Cast: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Bill Pullman, Mekhi Phifer, Alexa Havins, Lauren Ambrose; Producers: Jane Espenson
5:45 pm Spartacus: Vengeance - Cast: Liam McIntyre, Lucy Lawless, Dustin Clare, Manu Bennett, Katrina Lawand; Producers: Steven S. DeKnight
8 pm Discovery’s Reign of the Dinosaurs - Producers: Erik Nelson, David Krentz, Ricardo Delgado
Bob’s Burgers - Cast: Voice talent Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal; Producers: Loren Bouchard,...
- 6/18/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Everett Collection Werner Herzog and team in the Chauvet Cave
Over the past two years, filmmakers have seized on 3-D as a way to — depending on your point of view — enhance the viewing experience or add bulk to studio coffers. Movies like “Jackass” and “Clash of the Titans,” for example, have fueled concerns that the extra dimension, instead of delivering an enriched cinematic experience, just leaves moviegoers with headaches and drained wallets.
But for “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the new documentary from Werner Herzog,...
Over the past two years, filmmakers have seized on 3-D as a way to — depending on your point of view — enhance the viewing experience or add bulk to studio coffers. Movies like “Jackass” and “Clash of the Titans,” for example, have fueled concerns that the extra dimension, instead of delivering an enriched cinematic experience, just leaves moviegoers with headaches and drained wallets.
But for “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the new documentary from Werner Herzog,...
- 4/29/2011
- by Julie Steinberg
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
We’ve been sent over some new production stills by the folks at Thinkjam taken from Werner Herzog’s ace new documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which the German film-making legend shot in 3D. We know it’s ace because we’ve seen it. The film is released in UK cinemas from 25th March, so expect our review in good time!
If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, click on the link here and check out the stills below after the detailed synopsis.
Synopsis:
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog...
If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, click on the link here and check out the stills below after the detailed synopsis.
Synopsis:
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog...
- 1/28/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
It says something when somebody as maverick and individual as Werner Herzog goes and makes a 3D film. If you’ve ever seen a Herzog documentary you’ll know well they’re probably better than much of his fiction work. And that’s saying something! He’s made a new one now called Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
A new UK Trailer for the film – opening in the UK from 25th March – has been sent over to us and a pretty detailed synopsis, too. I’m still unconvinced by 3D but Herzog is a legendary film-maker and will no doubt do something great with the format. The subject matter alone – ancient cave-drawings and artwork – is most interesting.
Synopsis:
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings,...
A new UK Trailer for the film – opening in the UK from 25th March – has been sent over to us and a pretty detailed synopsis, too. I’m still unconvinced by 3D but Herzog is a legendary film-maker and will no doubt do something great with the format. The subject matter alone – ancient cave-drawings and artwork – is most interesting.
Synopsis:
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Picturehouse Entertainment have just sent us the brand new trailer for their new 3d movie, Cave of Forgotten Dreams which is directed by the legendary Werner Herzog. The documentary is released 25th March 2011.
I’ll let the synopsis do the talking and scroll down to view the trailer which Jon first placed last week.
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog uses his unique access to this treasure trove of Palaeolithic masterpieces to muse on the immensity and fragility of man’s progress.
Herzog combines his gifts as a conjurer of unforgettable images,...
I’ll let the synopsis do the talking and scroll down to view the trailer which Jon first placed last week.
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog uses his unique access to this treasure trove of Palaeolithic masterpieces to muse on the immensity and fragility of man’s progress.
Herzog combines his gifts as a conjurer of unforgettable images,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Dave Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It’s what every underground filmmaker dreams of. Heck, it’s what everybody who throws their videos up online dreams of! That their little mini-masterpiece will become a viral video sensation, embedded on mainstream news web sites and viewed by millions of people all over the globe. That’s exactly what happened to pop culture remix masters Wreck & Salvage, whose video Palin’s Breath — embedded above, of course — became even more popular than the video it was riffing off of. It became, in a day, a phenomenon. But, really, what goes into a viral hit? And do the makers of such media do it intentionally for the fame and the glory? Or, is it all just random?
Here’s the story behind the particular video above. On Wednesday, Jan. 12, a day of national mourning in honor of the horrific shooting in Tucson, Arizona the previous Saturday, during a time when,...
Here’s the story behind the particular video above. On Wednesday, Jan. 12, a day of national mourning in honor of the horrific shooting in Tucson, Arizona the previous Saturday, during a time when,...
- 1/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Filed under: Features, Hot Topic
If you thought that the credibility issues raised by the controversial documentary 'Catfish' could have been solved if they'd opted to abandon the Internet romance and instead head down to the bayou to film actual fish, we have bad news for you.
According to a new book by longtime wildlife filmmaker Chris Palmer, the footage in nature documentaries isn't any more legitimate than, say, Joaquin Phoenix rapping in the studio with Diddy.
Palmer's book, 'Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom,' reveals a number of ways in which animals and audiences have been manipulated by filmmakers. For instance, jellybeans and M&Ms are often placed inside animal carcasses to draw scavengers -- "scary" animals that may, in fact, have been rented from game farms. Another example: One documentary crew buried a whale skull at the bottom of...
If you thought that the credibility issues raised by the controversial documentary 'Catfish' could have been solved if they'd opted to abandon the Internet romance and instead head down to the bayou to film actual fish, we have bad news for you.
According to a new book by longtime wildlife filmmaker Chris Palmer, the footage in nature documentaries isn't any more legitimate than, say, Joaquin Phoenix rapping in the studio with Diddy.
Palmer's book, 'Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom,' reveals a number of ways in which animals and audiences have been manipulated by filmmakers. For instance, jellybeans and M&Ms are often placed inside animal carcasses to draw scavengers -- "scary" animals that may, in fact, have been rented from game farms. Another example: One documentary crew buried a whale skull at the bottom of...
- 10/1/2010
- by Dan Solomon
- Moviefone
More Toronto coverage
Toronto -- IFC Films has acquired all U.S. rights, except for television, to Werner Herzog's 3D documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," which takes viewers on a tour of the ancient cave drawings in Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc in southern France.
The film had its first screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday.
"Cave" was produced by Creative Differences in partnership with History Films, which will eventually air it on the History Channel, and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication as a co-production with Arte France and in association with More 4. It was produced by Erik Nelson, who produced Herzog's last two docs -- "Grizzly Man" and "Encounters at the End of the World" -- and Adrienne Cuiffo, with exec producers Dave Harding, David McKillop, Julian P. Hobbs, Molly Thompson and Tabitha Jackson.
IFC president Jonathan Sehring said, "We were completely blown away by this tour-de-force from Wener Herzog.
Toronto -- IFC Films has acquired all U.S. rights, except for television, to Werner Herzog's 3D documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," which takes viewers on a tour of the ancient cave drawings in Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc in southern France.
The film had its first screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday.
"Cave" was produced by Creative Differences in partnership with History Films, which will eventually air it on the History Channel, and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication as a co-production with Arte France and in association with More 4. It was produced by Erik Nelson, who produced Herzog's last two docs -- "Grizzly Man" and "Encounters at the End of the World" -- and Adrienne Cuiffo, with exec producers Dave Harding, David McKillop, Julian P. Hobbs, Molly Thompson and Tabitha Jackson.
IFC president Jonathan Sehring said, "We were completely blown away by this tour-de-force from Wener Herzog.
- 9/15/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pixar Animation Studios has been working a while now on Reign of the Dinosaurs which is their upcoming Tv project for Discovery Channel who describes it as "Avatar meets Jurassic Park".
Synopsis:
Avatar meets Jurassic Park as the latest paleontological research meets Hollywood story telling. Discovery Channel teams with the top creative talent from Disney and Pixar to create an unparalleled television event. New creatures abound in a wondrous new world – giant dinos with Freddy Krueger style clawed hands, pygmy T-rex, frogs so big they can eat dinosaurs. Learn the latest in understanding of dinosaur behaviors with exotic mating dances, the inner workings of the T-rex’s nuclear family, dinosaurs drunk on fermenting fruit, dinosaurs in apocalyptic events, the underwater birthing of mosasaurs, and prehistory’s angriest mammals. A daring and provocative new chapter in television, Reign Of The Dinosaurs is bound to be the benchmark for all future dinosaur natural history programming.
Synopsis:
Avatar meets Jurassic Park as the latest paleontological research meets Hollywood story telling. Discovery Channel teams with the top creative talent from Disney and Pixar to create an unparalleled television event. New creatures abound in a wondrous new world – giant dinos with Freddy Krueger style clawed hands, pygmy T-rex, frogs so big they can eat dinosaurs. Learn the latest in understanding of dinosaur behaviors with exotic mating dances, the inner workings of the T-rex’s nuclear family, dinosaurs drunk on fermenting fruit, dinosaurs in apocalyptic events, the underwater birthing of mosasaurs, and prehistory’s angriest mammals. A daring and provocative new chapter in television, Reign Of The Dinosaurs is bound to be the benchmark for all future dinosaur natural history programming.
- 7/13/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Discovery has announced Reign of the Dinosaurs at Comic-Con in San Diego. The show, still in production and slated to premiere on Discovery Channel in 2011, features renowned artists and illustrators who are re-setting the benchmark for realistic dinosaur storytelling. Discovery will feature a panel, autograph session, and press interview opportunity at San Diego Comic-Con: Reign Of The Dinosaurs Panel - Friday, 7/23 / 7:30 Pm, Room 6Bcf Featuring: -> Ricardo Delgado (Dark Horse Comics. Age of Reptiles) -> Tom deRosier (Lilo and Stitch, Mulan) -> David Krentz (Disney.s Dinosaur) -> Iain McCaig (Star Wars prequels) -> Mishi McCaig (Iron Man) -> Pete Von Sholly (The Mask, Darkman) Moderated by Producer Erik Nelson (Grizzly Man), the...
- 7/13/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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