The Brooklyn-based film and TV distributor has partnered with streaming video applications provider ViewLift to launch CoolFlix.
The subscription VOD service will run on iOS and Android mobile apps and across platforms such as the Roku media player.
The price point is $2.99 for monthly membership and $9.99 for annual plan.
The initial library includes select international titles from the Global Lens Collection, Nick Broomfield documentaries, period drama Heavens Fall starring Timothy Hutton and The Mind Snatchers with Christopher Walken.
TV shows encompass Showtime’s Years Of Living Dangerously, BBC political drama The Ambassador and Syfy Channel reality series Deals From The Dark Side.
“We are beyond thrilled to launch CoolFlix,” said FilmRise CEO Danny Fisher. “We have always strived to reach new heights in the industry, and with our partnership with ViewLift, we have developed a magnificent means of doing so. CoolFlix is an incredible way to expand our company’s horizons and provide these wonderful films to a whole...
The subscription VOD service will run on iOS and Android mobile apps and across platforms such as the Roku media player.
The price point is $2.99 for monthly membership and $9.99 for annual plan.
The initial library includes select international titles from the Global Lens Collection, Nick Broomfield documentaries, period drama Heavens Fall starring Timothy Hutton and The Mind Snatchers with Christopher Walken.
TV shows encompass Showtime’s Years Of Living Dangerously, BBC political drama The Ambassador and Syfy Channel reality series Deals From The Dark Side.
“We are beyond thrilled to launch CoolFlix,” said FilmRise CEO Danny Fisher. “We have always strived to reach new heights in the industry, and with our partnership with ViewLift, we have developed a magnificent means of doing so. CoolFlix is an incredible way to expand our company’s horizons and provide these wonderful films to a whole...
- 8/14/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
[Disclaimer: ViewLift is a wholly owned subsidiary of Indiewire's parent company, SnagFilms] Brooklyn-based film and TV distributor FilmRise has launched a new subscription VOD service entitled CoolFlix, which provides commercial-free streaming of movies and TV shows online, on iOS and Android mobile apps and across various platforms including the Roku media player. FilmRise partnered with ViewLift, a full-service producer of streaming video applications, to develop the service. Aimed to be an affordable streaming service for great indie titles, CoolFlix is offering monthly subscriptions for $2.99 and a discount annual plan of just $9.99. With over 25 categories across a variety of genres, CoolFlix's extensive library of titles includes hit Hollywood movies, special interest features, award-winning foreign language films, independent movies and acclaimed documentaries. Titles include the period drama "Heavens Fall," starring Timothy Hutton, provocative...
- 8/10/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Over the past decade (or thereabouts; his work is almost invariably released in the U.S. years after being shot), writer-director Terry Green has made three films, the first of which, the John Mahoney–starring Almost Salinas, was self-distributed in 2003. That one's since been lost in the home-video ether, but the next two — Heavens Fall, from 2006, and No God, No Master, his newest work — indicate that Green is both a capable filmmaker and a clear history buff.
Green favors trailblazing public figures railing against social injustice: in Heavens Fall, it's Timothy Hutton's Samuel Leibowitz, a New York lawyer who travels to Alabama in 1933 to defend the Scottsboro Boys; in No God, No Master, it's U.S. Bureau of Investigation ...
Green favors trailblazing public figures railing against social injustice: in Heavens Fall, it's Timothy Hutton's Samuel Leibowitz, a New York lawyer who travels to Alabama in 1933 to defend the Scottsboro Boys; in No God, No Master, it's U.S. Bureau of Investigation ...
- 4/9/2014
- Village Voice
AUSTIN -- A tale of racial injustice in the pre-WWII South, Heavens Fall has a familiar feel and covers well-trod themes. We know most of the ingredients fairly well, even if we haven't heard this particular true story -- that of the Scottsboro Boys trial, in which nine black men were convicted of raping two white women, only to have a retrial ordered by the Supreme Court.
Writer-director Terry Green does a fine job and handles the story's downbeat ending particularly well. But he doesn't provide the heightened drama and star power typically used to sell such pictures, so boxoffice results likely will be more modest than the film's quality merits.
Timothy Hutton delivers a strong performance as the central character, a New York lawyer brought in to argue the defendants' case at the retrial. Resented by townspeople as both a carpetbagger from the North and as a Jew, we expect him to be on the defensive. But Hutton, while remaining human, projects impassivity toward friend and foe alike. He seems to be driven by neither crusading self-righteousness nor professional ambition, unlike most lawyers in pictures like this one.
On the other side of the case, Bill Sage plays a similar role. Early scenes hint at a slimy willingness to manipulate the truth, but the character is no one-dimensional Southern villain. The tentative professional respect the two lawyers develop is one of the film's most convincing elements.
Most of the attention in Heavens Fall is focused on white men -- the two lawyers and the judge (David Strathairn) presiding over their case. Green might have considered heeding the advice one of his characters -- a black journalist from Chicago -- gives Hutton: that he should work harder to humanize his clients for the jury. Getting to know the first man to face retrial (the script centers on this case) and some of his peers might have generated welcome heat for the story, and would certainly have been a nice change from the genre's habit of making race-conflict pictures in which the heroes are white.
The story itself raises thorny subjects outside the white/black, North/South arenas. In seeking to discredit the alleged rape victim (Leelee Sobieski), Hutton's character uses her "prior conviction of adultery" and proves that she has "consorted with Negroes." Both facts are indeed contradictory to the nature of her claim, but contemporary audiences might flinch at rooting for the idea that they prove a woman is lying about rape.
But those questions are for another movie. Heavens Fall tells its story with some interesting stylistic flourishes (a brisk montage of lawyers' closing arguments, for example) and without emotional manipulation. Performances and photography are uniformly strong, and a spare, blues-based score adds substantially to the film's feel. It presents no threat to the classics of courtroom drama, but it's more appealing than other history-based films that have flourished on television and video.
HEAVENS FALL
Strata Prods./Ostrow & Co.
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Terry Green
Producers: Anna Marie Crovetti, Gloria Everett
Executive producers: Page Ostrow, Norman Twain
Director of photography: Paul Sanchez
Production designer: Julieann Getman
Music: David Reynolds
Co-producers: D. Scott Lumpkin, Michael Nehs
Costumes: Lisa Davis
Editor: Gregory Ruzzin
Cast:
Samuel Leibowitz: Timothy Hutton
Judge James Horton: David Strathairn
Victoria Price: Leelee Sobieski
William Lee: Anthony Mackie
Thomas Knight Jr.: Bill Sage
Thomas Knight Sr.: James Tolkan
Lyle Harris: Maury Chaykin
George Chamlee: Bill Smitrovich
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 108 minutes...
Writer-director Terry Green does a fine job and handles the story's downbeat ending particularly well. But he doesn't provide the heightened drama and star power typically used to sell such pictures, so boxoffice results likely will be more modest than the film's quality merits.
Timothy Hutton delivers a strong performance as the central character, a New York lawyer brought in to argue the defendants' case at the retrial. Resented by townspeople as both a carpetbagger from the North and as a Jew, we expect him to be on the defensive. But Hutton, while remaining human, projects impassivity toward friend and foe alike. He seems to be driven by neither crusading self-righteousness nor professional ambition, unlike most lawyers in pictures like this one.
On the other side of the case, Bill Sage plays a similar role. Early scenes hint at a slimy willingness to manipulate the truth, but the character is no one-dimensional Southern villain. The tentative professional respect the two lawyers develop is one of the film's most convincing elements.
Most of the attention in Heavens Fall is focused on white men -- the two lawyers and the judge (David Strathairn) presiding over their case. Green might have considered heeding the advice one of his characters -- a black journalist from Chicago -- gives Hutton: that he should work harder to humanize his clients for the jury. Getting to know the first man to face retrial (the script centers on this case) and some of his peers might have generated welcome heat for the story, and would certainly have been a nice change from the genre's habit of making race-conflict pictures in which the heroes are white.
The story itself raises thorny subjects outside the white/black, North/South arenas. In seeking to discredit the alleged rape victim (Leelee Sobieski), Hutton's character uses her "prior conviction of adultery" and proves that she has "consorted with Negroes." Both facts are indeed contradictory to the nature of her claim, but contemporary audiences might flinch at rooting for the idea that they prove a woman is lying about rape.
But those questions are for another movie. Heavens Fall tells its story with some interesting stylistic flourishes (a brisk montage of lawyers' closing arguments, for example) and without emotional manipulation. Performances and photography are uniformly strong, and a spare, blues-based score adds substantially to the film's feel. It presents no threat to the classics of courtroom drama, but it's more appealing than other history-based films that have flourished on television and video.
HEAVENS FALL
Strata Prods./Ostrow & Co.
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Terry Green
Producers: Anna Marie Crovetti, Gloria Everett
Executive producers: Page Ostrow, Norman Twain
Director of photography: Paul Sanchez
Production designer: Julieann Getman
Music: David Reynolds
Co-producers: D. Scott Lumpkin, Michael Nehs
Costumes: Lisa Davis
Editor: Gregory Ruzzin
Cast:
Samuel Leibowitz: Timothy Hutton
Judge James Horton: David Strathairn
Victoria Price: Leelee Sobieski
William Lee: Anthony Mackie
Thomas Knight Jr.: Bill Sage
Thomas Knight Sr.: James Tolkan
Lyle Harris: Maury Chaykin
George Chamlee: Bill Smitrovich
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 108 minutes...
- 4/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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