Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Yikes. What a terrible weekend we just had, not only for the new movies released but also for the Weekend Warrior’s predictions. Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks’ Sully won its second weekend in a row with just under $22 million, but as far as the new movies, neither Lionsgate’s Blair Witch nor Universal’s Bridget Jones’s Baby did very well, putting the last nail in the coffin (hopefully) for sequels/remakes trying to play upon nostalgia that just isn’t there. (Good luck to the Rings movie opening next month!) Blair Witch ended up with $9.6 million to take second place and both Bridget Jones’s Baby and Oliver Stone’s Snowden ended up with around $8 million, so...
This Past Weekend:
Yikes. What a terrible weekend we just had, not only for the new movies released but also for the Weekend Warrior’s predictions. Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks’ Sully won its second weekend in a row with just under $22 million, but as far as the new movies, neither Lionsgate’s Blair Witch nor Universal’s Bridget Jones’s Baby did very well, putting the last nail in the coffin (hopefully) for sequels/remakes trying to play upon nostalgia that just isn’t there. (Good luck to the Rings movie opening next month!) Blair Witch ended up with $9.6 million to take second place and both Bridget Jones’s Baby and Oliver Stone’s Snowden ended up with around $8 million, so...
- 9/21/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" director Taggart Siegel investigates the decline in the world's bee population in his latest documentary, "Queen of the Sun." Below find an interview with Siegel where he discusses what led him to make the film and his passion for anthropology. "Queen of the Sun" opens at New York's Cinema Village on Friday, June 10th. What it's About: In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher ...
- 6/6/2011
- Indiewire
"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" director Taggart Siegel investigates the decline in the world's bee population in his latest documentary, "Queen of the Sun." Below find an interview with Siegel where he discusses what led him to make the film and his passion for anthropology. "Queen of the Sun" opens at New York's Cinema Village on Friday, June 10th. What it's About: In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher ...
- 6/6/2011
- indieWIRE - People
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
Sorry, folks… there are simply too many great films streaming this week to post an image for them all, but that’s a good thing, eh? You’ve got your movie watching work cut out for you, due in great part to Miramax releasing damn near their entire catalog of films on one day!
B. Monkey (1999)
Streaming Available: 05/01/2011
Director: Michael Radford
Synopsis: Good-hearted schoolteacher Alan Furnace (Jared Harris) desperately wants some excitement in his life — and he may just get some. One lonely night at a London bar, Alan spies the raven-haired beauty Beatrice (Asia Argento) arguing with two friends, Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Beatrice quickly befriends Alan and...
Sorry, folks… there are simply too many great films streaming this week to post an image for them all, but that’s a good thing, eh? You’ve got your movie watching work cut out for you, due in great part to Miramax releasing damn near their entire catalog of films on one day!
B. Monkey (1999)
Streaming Available: 05/01/2011
Director: Michael Radford
Synopsis: Good-hearted schoolteacher Alan Furnace (Jared Harris) desperately wants some excitement in his life — and he may just get some. One lonely night at a London bar, Alan spies the raven-haired beauty Beatrice (Asia Argento) arguing with two friends, Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Beatrice quickly befriends Alan and...
- 4/29/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Last week, America's indie film community took a long, hard look at its precarious state.
After industry pros flew back home from the Toronto International Film Festival -- heads throbbing from too many drinks, not enough sleep and the lackluster marketplace, where few films were bought and sold -- many headed straight to the Ifp's annual Independent Film Week and Conference, a 31-year-old event where people like Jim Jarmusch, the Coen brothers, Michael Moore, Whit Stillman, Todd Haynes and Todd Solondz first stepped through the industry's door. Capping off the run of whining and redefining was an "Indie Film Summit," a meeting of some 60 significant distributors, producers and other insiders at the Museum of Modern Art, all looking for answers in these tumultuous times, when economic and technological changes have irrevocably shattered the conventional models of making and distributing movies.
For first-time filmmakers entering the business during this moment of upheaval,...
After industry pros flew back home from the Toronto International Film Festival -- heads throbbing from too many drinks, not enough sleep and the lackluster marketplace, where few films were bought and sold -- many headed straight to the Ifp's annual Independent Film Week and Conference, a 31-year-old event where people like Jim Jarmusch, the Coen brothers, Michael Moore, Whit Stillman, Todd Haynes and Todd Solondz first stepped through the industry's door. Capping off the run of whining and redefining was an "Indie Film Summit," a meeting of some 60 significant distributors, producers and other insiders at the Museum of Modern Art, all looking for answers in these tumultuous times, when economic and technological changes have irrevocably shattered the conventional models of making and distributing movies.
For first-time filmmakers entering the business during this moment of upheaval,...
- 10/5/2009
- by Anthony Kaufman
- ifc.com
CAVU Pictures
NEW YORK -- The Real Dirt on Farmer John covers about 50 years in the life of a struggling farmer, but this documentary by Taggart Siegel is not exactly The Grapes of Wrath.
Written and narrated by its eponymous subject, John Peterson, the film is an idiosyncratic portrait of an equally idiosyncratic figure whose personal travails well mirror many of the sociological changes that took place in the country during the past several decades. Hailed at numerous film festivals, the film is playing limited theatrical engagements.
Siegel was a friend of Peterson's for about two decades before he made the film, so his affectionate regard for his subject is more than evident. After inheriting a family farm that achieved great success under his grandfather's ownership, Peterson weathered numerous ups and downs while pursuing the family vocation in his own unique way. This included wearing a feather boa while plowing; pursuing his avant-garde artistic passions; and turning the farm into a sort of hippie commune during the freewheeling 1970s.
More significantly, he helped pioneer the concept of CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, and eventually transformed his farm into a highly successful example of organic agriculture.
Peterson is an undeniably eccentric and compelling figure, and his narration, not to mention the extensive use of family home movies, gives the film a personal quality that will make it of interest even to those not particularly interested in the subject of farming. While it sometimes has a rambling, disjointed quality and moments of self-indulgence, Farmer John, as evidenced by the laudatory quotes from such figures as Al Gore and chef Alice Waters, has no small amount of relevance.
NEW YORK -- The Real Dirt on Farmer John covers about 50 years in the life of a struggling farmer, but this documentary by Taggart Siegel is not exactly The Grapes of Wrath.
Written and narrated by its eponymous subject, John Peterson, the film is an idiosyncratic portrait of an equally idiosyncratic figure whose personal travails well mirror many of the sociological changes that took place in the country during the past several decades. Hailed at numerous film festivals, the film is playing limited theatrical engagements.
Siegel was a friend of Peterson's for about two decades before he made the film, so his affectionate regard for his subject is more than evident. After inheriting a family farm that achieved great success under his grandfather's ownership, Peterson weathered numerous ups and downs while pursuing the family vocation in his own unique way. This included wearing a feather boa while plowing; pursuing his avant-garde artistic passions; and turning the farm into a sort of hippie commune during the freewheeling 1970s.
More significantly, he helped pioneer the concept of CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, and eventually transformed his farm into a highly successful example of organic agriculture.
Peterson is an undeniably eccentric and compelling figure, and his narration, not to mention the extensive use of family home movies, gives the film a personal quality that will make it of interest even to those not particularly interested in the subject of farming. While it sometimes has a rambling, disjointed quality and moments of self-indulgence, Farmer John, as evidenced by the laudatory quotes from such figures as Al Gore and chef Alice Waters, has no small amount of relevance.
- 7/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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