The creative director of Maison Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli, has always considered color a powerful channel of immediate and direct communication, systematically used as a means of altering perception and reevaluating form and function. First, he focused on red, inherited from Valentino, the founder of the brand, then the pink of the past seasons, and now it’s the turn for black.
For the Valentino Le Noir Fall/Winter 2024 collection, shown during Paris Fashion Week in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Piccioli presented Valentino through the lens of black, which does not represent an absence of color, nor an exercise in monochromy or monotony, but rather the discovery of a whole spectrum of hues. Celebrities sitting front row at the show included The Bear‘s Molly Gordon, Bridgerton‘s Simone Ashley and singer Gracie Abrams.
“Baudelaire said that black is the uniform of democracy, and this phrase seems more relevant to me today than ever before.
For the Valentino Le Noir Fall/Winter 2024 collection, shown during Paris Fashion Week in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Piccioli presented Valentino through the lens of black, which does not represent an absence of color, nor an exercise in monochromy or monotony, but rather the discovery of a whole spectrum of hues. Celebrities sitting front row at the show included The Bear‘s Molly Gordon, Bridgerton‘s Simone Ashley and singer Gracie Abrams.
“Baudelaire said that black is the uniform of democracy, and this phrase seems more relevant to me today than ever before.
- 3/5/2024
- by Pino Gagliardi
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Cinema will not die. Do you know who invented TikTok? The Lumière brothers with their shorts.”
Cannes Film Festival delegate general Thierry Frémaux discussed cinemagoing, streaming, and the emerging generation of Argentinian auteurs in a Ventana Sur masterclass in Buenos Aires.
Under the banner ‘The Future of Cinema’, Frémaux, speaking fluent Spanish, reflected on platforms, cinema’s DNA, Cannes selection policy, and the importance of classic films with local journalists and critics Diego Batlle and Luciano Monteagudo.
As part of Frémaux’s annual participation in the Buenos Aires market the delegate general curates Cannes Film Week, which runs through December...
Cannes Film Festival delegate general Thierry Frémaux discussed cinemagoing, streaming, and the emerging generation of Argentinian auteurs in a Ventana Sur masterclass in Buenos Aires.
Under the banner ‘The Future of Cinema’, Frémaux, speaking fluent Spanish, reflected on platforms, cinema’s DNA, Cannes selection policy, and the importance of classic films with local journalists and critics Diego Batlle and Luciano Monteagudo.
As part of Frémaux’s annual participation in the Buenos Aires market the delegate general curates Cannes Film Week, which runs through December...
- 11/30/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
“Cinema will not die. Do you know who invented TikTok? The Lumière brothers with their shorts.”
Cannes Film Festival delegate general Thierry Frémaux discussed cinema-going, streaming, and the emerging generation of Argentinian auteurs in a Ventana Sur masterclass in Buenos Aires.
Under the banner ‘The Future of Cinema’, Frémaux, speaking fluent Spanish, reflected on platforms, cinema’s DNA, Cannes selection policy, and the importance of classical movies with local journalists and critics Diego Batlle and Luciano Monteagudo.
As part of Frémaux’s involvement, the delegate general curates Cannes Film Week at the Buenos Aires market, which runs through December 3 and...
Cannes Film Festival delegate general Thierry Frémaux discussed cinema-going, streaming, and the emerging generation of Argentinian auteurs in a Ventana Sur masterclass in Buenos Aires.
Under the banner ‘The Future of Cinema’, Frémaux, speaking fluent Spanish, reflected on platforms, cinema’s DNA, Cannes selection policy, and the importance of classical movies with local journalists and critics Diego Batlle and Luciano Monteagudo.
As part of Frémaux’s involvement, the delegate general curates Cannes Film Week at the Buenos Aires market, which runs through December 3 and...
- 11/30/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Steve Carell will make his Broadway debut next spring in the title role of Lincoln Center Theater’s Uncle Vanya, appearing with, among others, Alison Pill as Sonya, Alfred Molina as Alexander Serabryakov and Anika Noni Rose as Yelena.
The production will begin previews Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at Lct’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, opening on Wednesday, April 24. As previously announced, Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me) is writing a new translation, and Lila Neugebauer (The Waverly Gallery) will direct.
Also joining the cast are William Jackson Harper as Astrov, Jayne Houdyshell as Mama Voinitski and Mia Katigbak as Marina. Complete casting will be announced soon.
The synopsis: Sonya (Pill) and her uncle Vanya (Carell) have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father (Molina) and his charismatic wife (Rose) move in, their lives are upended. In the heat of the summer,...
The production will begin previews Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at Lct’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, opening on Wednesday, April 24. As previously announced, Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me) is writing a new translation, and Lila Neugebauer (The Waverly Gallery) will direct.
Also joining the cast are William Jackson Harper as Astrov, Jayne Houdyshell as Mama Voinitski and Mia Katigbak as Marina. Complete casting will be announced soon.
The synopsis: Sonya (Pill) and her uncle Vanya (Carell) have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father (Molina) and his charismatic wife (Rose) move in, their lives are upended. In the heat of the summer,...
- 11/14/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan Murphy and husband David Miller, Netflix’s Bela Bajaria and her husband Doug Prochilo, Greg Berlanti and Robbie Rogers, and Joel and Sarah Mchale are among the Hollywood names who work with art adviser Joe Sheftel in building their art collections. “Joe has been great in helping us focus and translate our passions into visual arts, while also teaching us a great deal about market trends. We’ve discovered artists’ works both historical and current that our whole family is inspired by every day,” say Berlanti and Rogers, in a joint email to THR.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the New York-based Sheftel — who operated an art gallery on the Lower East Side from 2012 to 2015 — talks current trends in art, what is special about working with industry clients and his advice on navigating the Frieze Los Angeles art fair, which runs Feb. 16 to 19.
How would you describe...
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the New York-based Sheftel — who operated an art gallery on the Lower East Side from 2012 to 2015 — talks current trends in art, what is special about working with industry clients and his advice on navigating the Frieze Los Angeles art fair, which runs Feb. 16 to 19.
How would you describe...
- 2/16/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Everyone calls Alfred Molina a character actor. And he’s very happy about that. “There was a time when ‘character actor’ meant someone who wasn’t quite good enough to be a leading man,” the celebrated actor and owner of Hollywood’s best eyebrows tells me, leaning forward, “and I think that’s bollocks.”
The reason for such emphasis on that word? A memory, perhaps, of a pep talk he was given in his final year of drama school. Back then, the Spider-Man star was still Alfredo, later advised to drop the “o” to anglicise his name. (He’s the London-born son of a Spanish father and Italian mother.) Molina starts to summon the patronising Rp of his tutor, creasing up as he does so. “He said, ‘Alfredo. I think you have to come to terms with the fact that you really won’t work until you’re well into your forties.
The reason for such emphasis on that word? A memory, perhaps, of a pep talk he was given in his final year of drama school. Back then, the Spider-Man star was still Alfredo, later advised to drop the “o” to anglicise his name. (He’s the London-born son of a Spanish father and Italian mother.) Molina starts to summon the patronising Rp of his tutor, creasing up as he does so. “He said, ‘Alfredo. I think you have to come to terms with the fact that you really won’t work until you’re well into your forties.
- 11/26/2022
- by Jessie Thompson
- The Independent - Film
Everyone calls Alfred Molina a character actor. And he’s very happy about that. “There was a time when ‘character actor’ meant someone who wasn’t quite good enough to be a leading man,” the celebrated actor and owner of Hollywood’s best eyebrows tells me, leaning forward, “and I think that’s bollocks.”
The reason for such emphasis on that word? A memory, perhaps, of a pep talk he was given in his final year of drama school. Back then, the Spider-Man star was still Alfredo, later advised to drop the “o” to anglicise his name. (He’s the London-born son of a Spanish father and Italian mother.) Molina starts to summon the patronising Rp of his tutor, creasing up as he does so. “He said, ‘Alfredo. I think you have to come to terms with the fact that you really won’t work until you’re well into your forties.
The reason for such emphasis on that word? A memory, perhaps, of a pep talk he was given in his final year of drama school. Back then, the Spider-Man star was still Alfredo, later advised to drop the “o” to anglicise his name. (He’s the London-born son of a Spanish father and Italian mother.) Molina starts to summon the patronising Rp of his tutor, creasing up as he does so. “He said, ‘Alfredo. I think you have to come to terms with the fact that you really won’t work until you’re well into your forties.
- 11/26/2022
- by Jessie Thompson
- The Independent - TV
Say “no, no, no” all you want, but they’re making a musical biopic about Amy Winehouse whether you like it or not.
Studiocanal is producing the project about the brilliant singer from working class North London who died at the age of 27, and Sam Taylor-Johnson is attached as director. While her biggest financial success was the first “50 Shades of Grey” film, Taylor-Johnson’s first feature was 2007’s “Nowhere Boy,” a “Young John Lennon” project. She has also worked with a number of artists for high level music video projects, like Elton John, R.E.M., and Rhye. Variety reports that she is looking for a “relative newcomer” in the lead role. Austin Butler’s critical success with Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” will likely help her in making that case.
The project is called “Back to Black,” named for Winehouse’s breakout 2006 album that won her five Grammys—for Best...
Studiocanal is producing the project about the brilliant singer from working class North London who died at the age of 27, and Sam Taylor-Johnson is attached as director. While her biggest financial success was the first “50 Shades of Grey” film, Taylor-Johnson’s first feature was 2007’s “Nowhere Boy,” a “Young John Lennon” project. She has also worked with a number of artists for high level music video projects, like Elton John, R.E.M., and Rhye. Variety reports that she is looking for a “relative newcomer” in the lead role. Austin Butler’s critical success with Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” will likely help her in making that case.
The project is called “Back to Black,” named for Winehouse’s breakout 2006 album that won her five Grammys—for Best...
- 7/12/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
Vocal legend Amy Winehouse is now getting the big-screen biopic treatment.
The late Grammy winner, who died in 2011 at age 27, will be at the center of a musical biopic helmed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Deadline first reported that Studiocanal is backing the film, currently titled “Back to Black” after Winehouse’s hit album.
Matt Greenhalgh is penning the script, teaming up again with director Taylor-Johnson after collaborating on 2009’s John Lennon story “Nowhere Boy.” Studiocanal is producing with Alison Owen and Debra Hayward alongside Tracey Seaward.
The film will follow Winehouse’s life and rise to fame before dying of an alcohol and drug overdose in July 2011. Multiple projects have since been in the works attempting to capture Winehouse’s legacy, with Noomi Rapace previously attached to star in a Lotus Entertainment vehicle. Tania Raymonde also was linked to a separate film about Winehouse.
While no narrative feature has yet to...
The late Grammy winner, who died in 2011 at age 27, will be at the center of a musical biopic helmed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Deadline first reported that Studiocanal is backing the film, currently titled “Back to Black” after Winehouse’s hit album.
Matt Greenhalgh is penning the script, teaming up again with director Taylor-Johnson after collaborating on 2009’s John Lennon story “Nowhere Boy.” Studiocanal is producing with Alison Owen and Debra Hayward alongside Tracey Seaward.
The film will follow Winehouse’s life and rise to fame before dying of an alcohol and drug overdose in July 2011. Multiple projects have since been in the works attempting to capture Winehouse’s legacy, with Noomi Rapace previously attached to star in a Lotus Entertainment vehicle. Tania Raymonde also was linked to a separate film about Winehouse.
While no narrative feature has yet to...
- 7/11/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Charles Siebert, the actor who played the pompous Dr. Stanley Riverside II on the CBS medical drama series Trapper John, M.D., died May 1 of Covid-related pneumonia at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. He was 84.
His death was confirmed in a statement on the website of the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California, where Siebert appeared frequently.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Siebert made his Broadway debut in a 1967 production of Brecht’s Galileo and would return to the Broadway stage five more times through the following decade. He began his TV career in the late 1960s on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. By the mid-1970s he had appeared in such series as Hawk, N.Y.P.D., Another World, The Adams Chronicles, Kojak, Police Woman and The Rockford Files.
In 1977 he recurred on the Norman Lear soap parody Mary Hartman,...
His death was confirmed in a statement on the website of the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California, where Siebert appeared frequently.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Siebert made his Broadway debut in a 1967 production of Brecht’s Galileo and would return to the Broadway stage five more times through the following decade. He began his TV career in the late 1960s on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. By the mid-1970s he had appeared in such series as Hawk, N.Y.P.D., Another World, The Adams Chronicles, Kojak, Police Woman and The Rockford Files.
In 1977 he recurred on the Norman Lear soap parody Mary Hartman,...
- 5/31/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Alec Baldwin is to explore the fall of the one of the oldest, and most revered, galleries in New York City in a new true-crime podcast series.
Baldwin will narrate Art Fraud, an eight-part series from his El Dorado Pictures and Cavalry Audio in partnership with iHeartRadio, that tells the story of The Knoedler.
It marks the first major project for the actor since the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed in October in on-set shooting of a prop gun being held by Baldwin, the film’s star and producer.
Art Fraud is written by Michael Shnayerson and based on his Vanity Fair article that chronicles the fall The Knoedler Gallery. In operation since 1846 and home to some of the city’s greatest artists, the gallery’s fortune changed the moment an unassuming woman walked through the door with a canvas under her arm allegedly painted...
Baldwin will narrate Art Fraud, an eight-part series from his El Dorado Pictures and Cavalry Audio in partnership with iHeartRadio, that tells the story of The Knoedler.
It marks the first major project for the actor since the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed in October in on-set shooting of a prop gun being held by Baldwin, the film’s star and producer.
Art Fraud is written by Michael Shnayerson and based on his Vanity Fair article that chronicles the fall The Knoedler Gallery. In operation since 1846 and home to some of the city’s greatest artists, the gallery’s fortune changed the moment an unassuming woman walked through the door with a canvas under her arm allegedly painted...
- 1/31/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
This American Horror Story: Double Feature review contains spoilers.
American Horror Story Season 10 Episodes 1 and 2
For 1984, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk channeled their inner Sean S. Cunningham in order to craft a campy, funny, bloody ode to classic slasher movies from Friday the 13th to Sleepaway Camp. From the very opening moments of this season, in which a car sweeps down a deserted two-lane highway along a cold, frosty beach, the first half of American Horror Story: Double Feature, dubbed “Red Tide”, evokes nothing more strongly than the works of Stephen King and Joe Hill. It’s hard to do anything related to New England and horror without running into the King family, and rather than attempt to run from the obvious influences, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk lean in and give the people what they want from the very first frames.
Rather than opting for Maine or Haverhill, Massachusetts...
American Horror Story Season 10 Episodes 1 and 2
For 1984, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk channeled their inner Sean S. Cunningham in order to craft a campy, funny, bloody ode to classic slasher movies from Friday the 13th to Sleepaway Camp. From the very opening moments of this season, in which a car sweeps down a deserted two-lane highway along a cold, frosty beach, the first half of American Horror Story: Double Feature, dubbed “Red Tide”, evokes nothing more strongly than the works of Stephen King and Joe Hill. It’s hard to do anything related to New England and horror without running into the King family, and rather than attempt to run from the obvious influences, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk lean in and give the people what they want from the very first frames.
Rather than opting for Maine or Haverhill, Massachusetts...
- 8/26/2021
- by Ron Hogan
- Den of Geek
One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie.It’s one of those scenes whose pronouns get italics; that scene, the one at the end of Takashi Miike’s Audition in which the vengeful Asami (Eihi Shiina), wooed by Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) after an ersatz audition, pierces her lover’s skin with needles and slices off his left foot. She describes what she is about to do to him in calm, sweet tones (“This is a very painful spot”), and her coos are warnings to us too; this is what I’m about to do, are you going to watch? At the climax of the unflinching scene, Asami winds a wire saw around his ankle then swipes happily until, with a flourish, it’s off. For a moment, the camera shifts, and we are outside looking in...
- 4/23/2021
- MUBI
Russell Crowe is about to bring another (more literal) meaning to “Death of the Artist,” with his title role in director Sam Taylor-Johnson‘s next film. Crowe is set to play the role of influential American abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko in Rothko, a drama that chronicles the true story of Rothko’s daughter’s legal battle to protect her late […]
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- 3/8/2021
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Russell Crowe is set to star as artist Mark Rothko in a film titled “Rothko” and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.
Crowe will lead an ensemble cast that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jared Harris and Aisling Franciosi, and the film will be set in the art world about Rothko’s daughter’s attempt to preserve her father’s legacy. Franciosi, who broke out in “The Nightingale,” will play Crowe’s daughter in the film.
Rothko is a Latvian artist known for his color field paintings of irregular, painterly rectangles, which he mainly produced between 1949-1970. Taylor-Johnson’s film is adapted from a book by Lee Seldes called “The Legacy of Mark Rothko” about how Kate Rothko fought corrupt, elitist power brokers who have conspired to sell her father’s art fraudulently after he passes. She became an orphan at 19 and a mother to her 7-year-old brother, and with few resources...
Crowe will lead an ensemble cast that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jared Harris and Aisling Franciosi, and the film will be set in the art world about Rothko’s daughter’s attempt to preserve her father’s legacy. Franciosi, who broke out in “The Nightingale,” will play Crowe’s daughter in the film.
Rothko is a Latvian artist known for his color field paintings of irregular, painterly rectangles, which he mainly produced between 1949-1970. Taylor-Johnson’s film is adapted from a book by Lee Seldes called “The Legacy of Mark Rothko” about how Kate Rothko fought corrupt, elitist power brokers who have conspired to sell her father’s art fraudulently after he passes. She became an orphan at 19 and a mother to her 7-year-old brother, and with few resources...
- 3/5/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades Of Grey) is to direct starry drama Rothko, which will chart how Kate Rothko, the daughter of revered U.S. painter Mark Rothko, was drawn into a well-publicised legal battle to honor her father’s legacy.
We can reveal that the film will star rising actress Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale), Oscar-winner Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), Golden Globe-winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals), Golden Globe-nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name) and BAFTA-winner Jared Harris (Chernobyl).
Crowe will play artist Mark Rothko and Franciosi will portray his daughter Kate.
Rocket Science has begun sales at the virtual EFM where the project is among the marquee packages. CAA Media Finance and Endeavor Content are co-repping U.S. rights.
Adapted from the book The Legacy Of Mark Rothko by Lee Seldes, the screenplay by Lara Wood focuses on the true story of the ‘Rothko case’, the protracted legal...
We can reveal that the film will star rising actress Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale), Oscar-winner Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), Golden Globe-winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals), Golden Globe-nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name) and BAFTA-winner Jared Harris (Chernobyl).
Crowe will play artist Mark Rothko and Franciosi will portray his daughter Kate.
Rocket Science has begun sales at the virtual EFM where the project is among the marquee packages. CAA Media Finance and Endeavor Content are co-repping U.S. rights.
Adapted from the book The Legacy Of Mark Rothko by Lee Seldes, the screenplay by Lara Wood focuses on the true story of the ‘Rothko case’, the protracted legal...
- 3/5/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Nowhere Boy and Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson has amassed a major team of on-screen talent for her next feature, The Hollywood Reporter can confirm.
Rothko, formally announced on the final day of the European Film Market, will see Academy Award winner Russell Crowe play world renowned abstract painter Mark Rothko, with Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson (teaming up with his wife again after A Million Little Pieces and Nowhere Boy), Golden Globe nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (Shirley, The Shape of Water), BAFTA winner Jared Harris (Chernobyl, Lincoln) and rising Irish star Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, Black Narcissus) also starring.
Adapted from the book The Legacy of ...
Rothko, formally announced on the final day of the European Film Market, will see Academy Award winner Russell Crowe play world renowned abstract painter Mark Rothko, with Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson (teaming up with his wife again after A Million Little Pieces and Nowhere Boy), Golden Globe nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (Shirley, The Shape of Water), BAFTA winner Jared Harris (Chernobyl, Lincoln) and rising Irish star Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, Black Narcissus) also starring.
Adapted from the book The Legacy of ...
Nowhere Boy and Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson has amassed a major team of on-screen talent for her next feature, The Hollywood Reporter can confirm.
Rothko, formally announced on the final day of the European Film Market, will see Academy Award winner Russell Crowe play world renowned abstract painter Mark Rothko, with Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson (teaming up with his wife again after A Million Little Pieces and Nowhere Boy), Golden Globe nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (Shirley, The Shape of Water), BAFTA winner Jared Harris (Chernobyl, Lincoln) and rising Irish star Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, Black Narcissus) also starring.
Adapted from the book The Legacy of ...
Rothko, formally announced on the final day of the European Film Market, will see Academy Award winner Russell Crowe play world renowned abstract painter Mark Rothko, with Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson (teaming up with his wife again after A Million Little Pieces and Nowhere Boy), Golden Globe nominee Michael Stuhlbarg (Shirley, The Shape of Water), BAFTA winner Jared Harris (Chernobyl, Lincoln) and rising Irish star Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, Black Narcissus) also starring.
Adapted from the book The Legacy of ...
There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone knows, all hiding in plain sight. When a case of forgery comes to light, it tends to be greeted with moral outrage. The act of imitating a famous artist’s work, and profiting off it, is seen as a sleazy low-life con, as well as a major crime. Yet art forgery isn’t just about the eye candy of duplicity and profit. As Orson Welles caught in his jump-cut meditation “F for Fake” (1973), there’s a fantasy behind it: What if you had the daring, and the talent, to produce a fake work of art so drop-dead authentic that no one alive could tell it was fake? There’s an audacity to that, a kind of grand illusion.
- 2/24/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Harold Budd, the acclaimed composer known for his minimalist works and collaborations with Brian Eno, died Tuesday. He was 84. Steve Takaki, Budd’s manager, confirmed his death, adding that the cause of death was complications due to the coronavirus.
“A lot to digest,” Cocteau Twins frontman and frequent Budd collaborator Robin Guthrie wrote on Facebook. “Shared a lot with Harold since we were young, since he was sick, shared a lot with harold for the last 35 years, period. Feeling empty, shattered lost and unprepared for this. … His last words to...
“A lot to digest,” Cocteau Twins frontman and frequent Budd collaborator Robin Guthrie wrote on Facebook. “Shared a lot with Harold since we were young, since he was sick, shared a lot with harold for the last 35 years, period. Feeling empty, shattered lost and unprepared for this. … His last words to...
- 12/8/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Barry Avrich’s art scandal documentary “Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art” is being adapted into a feature film by the director’s Melbar Entertainment Group (“David Foster: Off The Record”).
The documentary tells the story of how one of the most respected art galleries in New York City became the center of the largest art fraud in American history. Knoedler & Company, under its president, Ann Freedman, made millions selling previously unseen works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and others that had supposedly come from a secret collection. But when her prestigious clients discovered they had purchased fakes, the scandal rocked the art world. Avrich secured unprecedented access to Freedman, her clients and other key players for the documentary.
The film has played Hot Docs and the Hamptons International Film Festival and will feature at the upcoming Doc NYC in November. Fremantle is handling international sales.
The documentary tells the story of how one of the most respected art galleries in New York City became the center of the largest art fraud in American history. Knoedler & Company, under its president, Ann Freedman, made millions selling previously unseen works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and others that had supposedly come from a secret collection. But when her prestigious clients discovered they had purchased fakes, the scandal rocked the art world. Avrich secured unprecedented access to Freedman, her clients and other key players for the documentary.
The film has played Hot Docs and the Hamptons International Film Festival and will feature at the upcoming Doc NYC in November. Fremantle is handling international sales.
- 10/23/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
If the events of the art world aren’t on your radar, you might have missed the late-2000s scandal that enveloped the Knoedler & Co. gallery in Manhattan, one of the oldest art galleries in the country, run by gallery president Ann Freedman. The gallery closed, Freedman resigned, and several people were sent to jail. The story itself remains remarkable, involving Freedman and a horde of fraudulent paintings said to be by storied artists like Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko. Articles and articles were written across publications, art-focused and not. And of course, inevitable documentaries followed, including the Hot Docs 2020 hit Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art and its counterpart and the focus of this review, Driven to Abstraction.
Driven to Abstraction, the new doc from Daria Price, reads like an in-depth news article, one you’d read in a major art magazine. It features a plethora of talking heads,...
Driven to Abstraction, the new doc from Daria Price, reads like an in-depth news article, one you’d read in a major art magazine. It features a plethora of talking heads,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to Catherine Gund’s documentary “Aggie,” about her mother Agnes “Aggie” Gund, the high-profile art collector and philanthropist.
“Aggie,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, explores the issues of art, race and justice. The elder Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece” in 2017 to launch the $100 million Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration. Strand plans for a fall release starting with a launch at Film Forum in New York, followed by a nationwide opening.
The film features “Aggie” in conversation with artists, family and friends including Glenn Ligon, Darren Walker, Teresita Fernandez, Abigail Disney, Rajendra Roy, John Waters and Thelma Golden surrounded by art in her home by artists such as Jasper Johns, Louise Bourgeois, Julie Mehretu, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Kara Walker. The film attempts to focus on the power of art to transform consciousness and inspire social change.
“Aggie,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, explores the issues of art, race and justice. The elder Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece” in 2017 to launch the $100 million Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration. Strand plans for a fall release starting with a launch at Film Forum in New York, followed by a nationwide opening.
The film features “Aggie” in conversation with artists, family and friends including Glenn Ligon, Darren Walker, Teresita Fernandez, Abigail Disney, Rajendra Roy, John Waters and Thelma Golden surrounded by art in her home by artists such as Jasper Johns, Louise Bourgeois, Julie Mehretu, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Kara Walker. The film attempts to focus on the power of art to transform consciousness and inspire social change.
- 5/14/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Above: Light in the TropicsOne moment in Paula Gaitán’s seventh feature, Light in the Tropics, which premiered in Berlin in the Forum section, contains a visual key to the entire work. It’s an inverted image of the vast landmass, created by the camera obscura. Gaitán’s ambitious project draws not so much on literal parallels as loose continuities between the environs of contemporary New York and the Hudson Valley and Brazil’s Mato Grosso, including Pantanal, and up the Xingu River, into the Amazon. That continuity between two vastly distant locations is established mostly through the experiences of the areas’ indigenous communities. It’s also a connection that envisions a symbolic line leading from today’s artists—particularly a young sculptor featured in the New York part—to the expedition by the Russo-Prussian doctor, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, and his artsy stragglers, into the Amazon, in 1824. The varied group included the Swiss-French inventor,...
- 3/9/2020
- MUBI
Great Performancesreturns with its third annualaoeBroadway's Bestalineup of acclaimed theatrical productions, premieringFridays, November 1-29 at 9 p.m. on PBScheck locallistings,pbs.orggperfand the PBS Video app. This fall's lineup spotlights musicals, comedy and dramaaoe42ndStreet,athe Broadway fable of a star-struck chorus girl dreaming of her big breakaoeRodgers Hammerstein's The King and I,aLincoln Center Theater's Tony Award-winning revival of the beloved musical classic starring Kelli O'Hara and Ken WatanabeaoeKinky Boots,athe Broadway blockbuster featuring music and lyrics by pop icon Cyndi Lauper and a book by Broadway legend Harvey FiersteinaoeRedathe Tony Award-winning drama starring Alfred Molina as painter Mark Rothko and Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon's modern interpretation ofaoeMuch Ado About Nothing,athe first Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park byGreat Performancesin over four decades.
- 9/10/2019
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
What’s in a name? As Romeo and Juliet knew, quite a lot. Called “the artist among architects,” Luis Barragán brought his eye-catching colorful Modernism to Mexico, becoming one of the country’s most renowned artists and cultural touchstones. His personal home in Mexico City is a Unesco World Heritage site, requiring reservations weeks in advance to visit. Casa Luis Barragán houses his personal art collection, but his entire professional archive lives in Switzerland, where it is owned and strictly monitored by a single corporation. The Swiss design company Vitra controls the access and rights to all of Barragán’s work, including any photographs of his buildings. It also owns his name.
Jill Magid’s provocative new film “The Proposal” both uncovers this travesty and actively seeks to challenge it, with the ultimate goal being to return the Barragán archives to Mexico. The film is itself a provocation; a fascinating...
Jill Magid’s provocative new film “The Proposal” both uncovers this travesty and actively seeks to challenge it, with the ultimate goal being to return the Barragán archives to Mexico. The film is itself a provocation; a fascinating...
- 5/23/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In today’s film news roundup, Sinemia is offering a non-subscription movie ticket plan, the Aclu is starting a tour at SXSW and production has launched on a documentary about the Knoedler Gallery art scandal,
Movie Tickets
MoviePass rival Sinemia is expanding its service with the launch of a discounted plan that does not require a subscription or use of an app.
Its Sinemia Limitless plan, launched Thursday, is offering a $70 digital or physical debit card of $100 value — valid for one year for ordering tickets from any theatre at any time. The digital card can purchase tickets online, while the physical card can buy online and in person at the box office.
Sinemia Limitless allows customers to make multiple ticket purchases on the same day and buy movie tickets for as many people as they want with a single transaction. It noted that the new plan eliminates the necessity of...
Movie Tickets
MoviePass rival Sinemia is expanding its service with the launch of a discounted plan that does not require a subscription or use of an app.
Its Sinemia Limitless plan, launched Thursday, is offering a $70 digital or physical debit card of $100 value — valid for one year for ordering tickets from any theatre at any time. The digital card can purchase tickets online, while the physical card can buy online and in person at the box office.
Sinemia Limitless allows customers to make multiple ticket purchases on the same day and buy movie tickets for as many people as they want with a single transaction. It noted that the new plan eliminates the necessity of...
- 3/8/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Theater fans don’t need to book passage across the pond in order to see West End favorites.
On Wednesday, Trafalgar Releasing will begin rolling out its latest slate of hit London shows, all of which have been captured on film in an effort to broaden their audience. “Funny Girl,” the first of these filmed versions, will debut in theaters on Wednesday for a one-night only presentation. It will be followed by “Red,” an award-winning drama starring Alfred Molina as the painter Mark Rothko; the Tony and Olivier-winning production of “An American in Paris”; and “The King and I,” a performance at the London Palladium featuring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara.
“We’re always looking to do a range of projects,” Trafalgar Releasing CEO Marc Allenby said. “We want to do big tentpole productions and also some smaller, more offbeat works.”
The company isn’t just releasing filmed plays...
On Wednesday, Trafalgar Releasing will begin rolling out its latest slate of hit London shows, all of which have been captured on film in an effort to broaden their audience. “Funny Girl,” the first of these filmed versions, will debut in theaters on Wednesday for a one-night only presentation. It will be followed by “Red,” an award-winning drama starring Alfred Molina as the painter Mark Rothko; the Tony and Olivier-winning production of “An American in Paris”; and “The King and I,” a performance at the London Palladium featuring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara.
“We’re always looking to do a range of projects,” Trafalgar Releasing CEO Marc Allenby said. “We want to do big tentpole productions and also some smaller, more offbeat works.”
The company isn’t just releasing filmed plays...
- 10/22/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Trafalgar Releasing brings a trio of hit West End productions to cinemas around the world. Funny Girl - The Musical October 24 features a host of iconic and timeless musical numbers including 'People,' 'I'm the Greatest Star,' and 'Don't Rain On My Parade', Mgc Presents Red November 7 sees Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch pair up as 20 th century artist Mark Rothko and his assistant, Ken, respectively and The King And I From The London Palladium November 29 amp December 4features the Tony award winning Broadway cast Kelli O'Hara, Ken Watanabe and Ruthie Ann Miles.
- 10/18/2018
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Michael Grandage’s West End production Red is headed to theaters via Trafalgar Releasing. Mgc announced today that Trafalgar will film the production of the John Logan-written play starring Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch to release in UK and North American theaters on Nov. 7.
The play will be filmed on July 28 when it ends its run at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London. The production is based on Grandage’s original 2009 Donmar Warehouse production which won six Tony Awards including Best Play and Best Direction of a Play.
“I am delighted that the original production of Red will be screened worldwide for all to see as part of Mgc’s commitment to reach as wide an audience as possible,” said Grandage in a statement. “It has enjoyed a long life that has included the Donmar, Broadway, La and finally the West End, so it is particularly wonderful that it...
The play will be filmed on July 28 when it ends its run at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London. The production is based on Grandage’s original 2009 Donmar Warehouse production which won six Tony Awards including Best Play and Best Direction of a Play.
“I am delighted that the original production of Red will be screened worldwide for all to see as part of Mgc’s commitment to reach as wide an audience as possible,” said Grandage in a statement. “It has enjoyed a long life that has included the Donmar, Broadway, La and finally the West End, so it is particularly wonderful that it...
- 7/24/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux isn’t bothered if audiences express their disapproval, and admits he sometimes makes mistakes in his selection. “I don’t care about people booing. It is part of the game,” he says, speaking at r7al, an event in Lausanne, Switzerland that is devoted to classic movies.
Fremaux and his team receive about 1,800 feature film submissions a year, of which 300-400 are “good” or “very good,” he says. From these, only 20 films can enter competition. The Cannes team have to accept “responsibility for our choices,” he says. “I know we make two or three mistakes a year.”
Cannes is dependent on the quality of the films available to it, and that varies from year to year. “You have good years, and bad years, like wine. If you have good sun in spring, you have good wine in October. It’s the same with films,...
Fremaux and his team receive about 1,800 feature film submissions a year, of which 300-400 are “good” or “very good,” he says. From these, only 20 films can enter competition. The Cannes team have to accept “responsibility for our choices,” he says. “I know we make two or three mistakes a year.”
Cannes is dependent on the quality of the films available to it, and that varies from year to year. “You have good years, and bad years, like wine. If you have good sun in spring, you have good wine in October. It’s the same with films,...
- 3/29/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Donald Trump‘s Van Gogh dreams were reportedly very creatively flushed down the drain last year.
The president asked the Guggenheim Museum in New York City if he and Melania Trump could borrow Vincent Van Gogh’s “Landscape With the Snow” to decorate the private living quarters of the White House.
Chief curator Nancy Spector, who has often criticized the president on social media, denied the Trumps of taking the 1888 painting of a man and his dog in Arles, France, according to her statement to the Washington Post on Thursday.
Instead, Spector offered them a counter-offer nothing like the oil and watercolor painting.
The president asked the Guggenheim Museum in New York City if he and Melania Trump could borrow Vincent Van Gogh’s “Landscape With the Snow” to decorate the private living quarters of the White House.
Chief curator Nancy Spector, who has often criticized the president on social media, denied the Trumps of taking the 1888 painting of a man and his dog in Arles, France, according to her statement to the Washington Post on Thursday.
Instead, Spector offered them a counter-offer nothing like the oil and watercolor painting.
- 1/26/2018
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
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