Freestyle Digital Media has secured the North American distrubtuion rights to On Thin Ice, a social justice-themed sports documentary featuring athletes Allyson Felix, Evander Holyfield, Robbie Rogers, Apolo Ohno, Michael Sam, Aimee Mullins, and Greg Louganis. Directed by Keli Price, the film will be available to rent and own on February 2. The doc calls attention to athletes who have struggled for acceptance due to race, religion, sexual orientation, and other prejudices. The film chronicles the life of filmmaker Keli Price’s Great-grandfather Jack Brooks, who escaped the anti-Jewish pogroms in Eastern Europe in 1923 and went on to become one of the premier speed skaters of interwar America. He skated with the U.S. Olympic team, and traveled to Lake Placid in 1932 for the III Olympic Winter Games. But his dream was cut short. Singled out because of the religion he practiced and the place he called home, the “speedster from...
- 1/14/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Stardust Trailer — Gabriel Range‘s Stardust (2020) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films and stars Jena Malone, Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Aaron Poole, Lara Heller, Brendan J. Rowland, Allie Dunbar, Annie Briggs, Jorja Cadence, Monica Parker, Roanna Cochrane, Paulino Nunes, Jimmy Star, and Anthony Flanagan. Roanna Cocharne as Charlotte Banks and Aaron Poole as [...]
Continue reading: Stardust (2020) Movie Trailer: Musician David Bowie Comes to America in Gabriel Range’s Biopic...
Continue reading: Stardust (2020) Movie Trailer: Musician David Bowie Comes to America in Gabriel Range’s Biopic...
- 10/29/2020
- by Christine Byczkiewicz
- Film-Book
In “Stardust,” a movie that dramatizes David Bowie’s road trip across America in 1971, David (Johnny Flynn), several years into his career but still, in terms of image, a bit of a leftover hippie rocker, finds himself performing at a convention of vacuum-cleaner salesmen. It seems that his manager back in England had failed to secure him a U.S. work visa. So even though he’s supposed to be touring the States, he can’t give concerts, can’t perform on television or radio. But his publicist from Mercury Records, Ron Oberman (Marc Maron), has lined up press interviews and figured out how to sneak in some third-rate gigs.
“Stardust” opens with a title that says “What follows is (mostly) fiction,” and if you want to know how that rather inauspicious promise translates, it’s there in the moment when Bowie gets up in front of the vacuum salesmen and says,...
“Stardust” opens with a title that says “What follows is (mostly) fiction,” and if you want to know how that rather inauspicious promise translates, it’s there in the moment when Bowie gets up in front of the vacuum salesmen and says,...
- 4/16/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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