Carol Sutton, whose half-century long acting career spanned stage, movies, and television, died Thursday at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. She was 76 and died of complications of coronavirus infection, said Tommye Myrick, a friend and local theater director.
“Among actors in New Orleans, there was Carol Sutton – and there was everybody else,” said David Cuthbert, a retired critic for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “She opened her mouth, and out came truth. Wherever she was on stage, that was center stage.”
Sutton started her career in local New Orleans theater in productions such as The Last Madam, Native Tongues, and A Raisin in the Sun. She moved to television in 1974 with The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and went on to roles in such movies as Monster’s Ball, Ray, Steel Magnolias and The Help, and in the television series Tremé, True Detective and Lovecraft Country.
Sutton said she never considered leaving her hometown.
“Among actors in New Orleans, there was Carol Sutton – and there was everybody else,” said David Cuthbert, a retired critic for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “She opened her mouth, and out came truth. Wherever she was on stage, that was center stage.”
Sutton started her career in local New Orleans theater in productions such as The Last Madam, Native Tongues, and A Raisin in the Sun. She moved to television in 1974 with The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and went on to roles in such movies as Monster’s Ball, Ray, Steel Magnolias and The Help, and in the television series Tremé, True Detective and Lovecraft Country.
Sutton said she never considered leaving her hometown.
- 12/12/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Neon’s latest, The Lodge scared up some solid numbers in its first weekend out, debuting on six screens in New York and Los Angeles, earning an estimated $78,104 with an impressive $13,017 per-screen average. The Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s isolated-in-a-snowed-in-cabin thriller starring Riley Keough, Richard Armitage, Jaeden Martell, and Lia McHugh is currently Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 75% before it expands.
The film opened in New York at the Angelika, Nitehawk in Williamsburg, and the Drafthouse Brooklyn. It will also play in Los Angeles this weekend at AMC Century City, Drafthouse, Universal Citywalk, and AMC Burbank. We are hearing that it pulled in noteworthy numbers at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse, which was bolstered by early access screenings. Overall, The Lodge started off strong Friday with over $36,000 and saw a steady decrease throughout the weekend, with Sunday looking at an estimated $15,500. The Lodge‘s box office debut surpasses...
The film opened in New York at the Angelika, Nitehawk in Williamsburg, and the Drafthouse Brooklyn. It will also play in Los Angeles this weekend at AMC Century City, Drafthouse, Universal Citywalk, and AMC Burbank. We are hearing that it pulled in noteworthy numbers at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse, which was bolstered by early access screenings. Overall, The Lodge started off strong Friday with over $36,000 and saw a steady decrease throughout the weekend, with Sunday looking at an estimated $15,500. The Lodge‘s box office debut surpasses...
- 2/9/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
As Neon rides the awards-season wave with Bong Joon Ho’s cinematic masterpiece Parasite, it isn’t stopping with delivering genre titles that speak to the brand. This weekend, its will debut its chilling thriller The Lodge directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz.
Written by Fiala, Franz and Sergio Casci, The Lodge follows a family that decides to spend the holidays in a snowy remote cabin. Already, this doesn’t sound like a good idea. The father (Richard Armitage) is forced to leave the family vaycay for work and his new girlfriend Grace (Riley Keough) stays behind to take care of his kids, Aidan (Jaeden Martell) and Mia (Lia McHugh). When a blizzard hits, they become trapped and, well, Grace’s dark past begins to terrify all of them.
The Lodge debuted last year at Sundance before going through the festival circuit and then making its premiere in Italy in January.
Written by Fiala, Franz and Sergio Casci, The Lodge follows a family that decides to spend the holidays in a snowy remote cabin. Already, this doesn’t sound like a good idea. The father (Richard Armitage) is forced to leave the family vaycay for work and his new girlfriend Grace (Riley Keough) stays behind to take care of his kids, Aidan (Jaeden Martell) and Mia (Lia McHugh). When a blizzard hits, they become trapped and, well, Grace’s dark past begins to terrify all of them.
The Lodge debuted last year at Sundance before going through the festival circuit and then making its premiere in Italy in January.
- 2/7/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
"Rare and fantastic, its raw subject matters echoes in films of the present day..." Oscilloscope Labs has released a new trailer for a long lost film titled Cane River, which has been found and restored to 4K and will be re-released in theaters next month. This "lyrical, visionary film disappeared for decades after Jenkins died suddenly following the film's completion [in 1982], robbing generations of a talented, vibrant new voice in African-American cinema. Available now for the first time in forty years in a brand-new, state-of-the-art 4k restoration." Set in Natchitoches Parish, a free community of color in Louisiana, the film is about the romance between two African-Americans who come from different class backgrounds. Starring Tommye Myrick, Richard Romain, Carol Sutton, and Barbara Tasker. This is definitely a one-of-a-kind film. Here's the new 4K restoration trailer (+ poster) for Horace B. Jenkins' Cane River, direct from YouTube: Written, produced, and directed by Emmy-winning documentarian,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Debuting in 1982, “Cane River” was an independent-film curio: a race and colorism-themed love story with an all-black cast, written and directed by a black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black backers. The filmmaker’s name was Horace B. Jenkins, who spent most of his career working in public television, and died of a heart attack at the age of 42, just a few months after “Cane River” premiered.
Largely financed by the Rhodes family of New Orleans (an African American family that has provided dignified burials for African Americans since the Civil War), “Cane River” was championed by Richard Pryor, but disappeared for decades after Jenkins’ sudden death.
It was mostly unknown until 2013, when an Academy Film Archive team selected the film’s original negative as part of a large group of materials brought from the vault of DuArt Film & Video.
After some preliminary research, including a discussion with the film’s editor Debi Moore,...
Largely financed by the Rhodes family of New Orleans (an African American family that has provided dignified burials for African Americans since the Civil War), “Cane River” was championed by Richard Pryor, but disappeared for decades after Jenkins’ sudden death.
It was mostly unknown until 2013, when an Academy Film Archive team selected the film’s original negative as part of a large group of materials brought from the vault of DuArt Film & Video.
After some preliminary research, including a discussion with the film’s editor Debi Moore,...
- 1/21/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Cane River At The Linwood Dunn | 1313 Vine St.
On Friday at the Linwood Dunn Theater, the Academy Film Archive will present the long-overdue Los Angeles premiere of Horace B. Jenkins’ little-seen 1982 feature Cane River in a new 35mm restoration. Shot in Natchitoches Parish, a free community of color in Louisiana, the film was the only feature completed by Jenkins, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, before his untimely death later that same year. Centered on two groups, a privileged community of light-skinned Creoles and their dark-skinned, discriminated-against counterparts, the pic stars Richard Romain and Tommye Myrick as a young couple attempting to ...
On Friday at the Linwood Dunn Theater, the Academy Film Archive will present the long-overdue Los Angeles premiere of Horace B. Jenkins’ little-seen 1982 feature Cane River in a new 35mm restoration. Shot in Natchitoches Parish, a free community of color in Louisiana, the film was the only feature completed by Jenkins, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, before his untimely death later that same year. Centered on two groups, a privileged community of light-skinned Creoles and their dark-skinned, discriminated-against counterparts, the pic stars Richard Romain and Tommye Myrick as a young couple attempting to ...
- 10/31/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Cane River At The Linwood Dunn | 1313 Vine St.
On Friday at the Linwood Dunn Theater, the Academy Film Archive will present the long-overdue Los Angeles premiere of Horace B. Jenkins’ little-seen 1982 feature Cane River in a new 35mm restoration. Shot in Natchitoches Parish, a free community of color in Louisiana, the film was the only feature completed by Jenkins, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, before his untimely death later that same year. Centered on two groups, a privileged community of light-skinned Creoles and their dark-skinned, discriminated-against counterparts, the pic stars Richard Romain and Tommye Myrick as a young couple attempting to ...
On Friday at the Linwood Dunn Theater, the Academy Film Archive will present the long-overdue Los Angeles premiere of Horace B. Jenkins’ little-seen 1982 feature Cane River in a new 35mm restoration. Shot in Natchitoches Parish, a free community of color in Louisiana, the film was the only feature completed by Jenkins, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, before his untimely death later that same year. Centered on two groups, a privileged community of light-skinned Creoles and their dark-skinned, discriminated-against counterparts, the pic stars Richard Romain and Tommye Myrick as a young couple attempting to ...
- 10/31/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Oscilloscope Laboratories is looking to bring more marginalized narratives to the spotlight with its recent acquisition of 1982’s Cane River. The indie film company co-founded by the Beastie Boys’ late, great Adam Yauch has acquired the North American rights to Horace B. Jenkins’s sole feature film, long considered lost following its 1982 premiere in New Orleans.
Jenkins died shortly after the premiere and the film never received full distribution, but Oscilloscope is about to remedy that. Newly remastered by IndieCollect and O-Scope, Cane River is set to open at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on February 7, with national rollout to select locations to follow. A 4K version of the film was screened earlier this year in New York at the Museum of Modern Art’s “To Save and Project” film festival.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will premiere Cane River in Los Angeles...
Jenkins died shortly after the premiere and the film never received full distribution, but Oscilloscope is about to remedy that. Newly remastered by IndieCollect and O-Scope, Cane River is set to open at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on February 7, with national rollout to select locations to follow. A 4K version of the film was screened earlier this year in New York at the Museum of Modern Art’s “To Save and Project” film festival.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will premiere Cane River in Los Angeles...
- 10/30/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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