boy meets girl ( 2014 film )
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30 years late, or timeless? leos carax’s ‘boy meets girl’ finally hits u. s. screens
boy meets girl is a funny and touching comedy / drama boasting a superlative debut performance by michelle hendley .
visit carlotta films’ site to find out where boy meets girl will be playing in the u. s .
the young leos carax, er, denis lavant (r) in boy meets girl. copyright carlotta films .
on 31st may 2014 at 2. 30pm. find out more at the official festival
boy meets girl feels fresh and direct even if it' s full of explanations that should have happened years earlier .
the second season of boy meets girl will commence on bbc two on wednesday 6th july at 10pm for six weeks .
2015. she appeared on two panels about the making of
boy meets girl ,
the pilot for which was a highlight of the 2014 festival, leading to the commissioning of the show' s first series .
30 years late, or timeless? leos carax’s ‘boy meets girl’ finally hits u. s. screens | the same cinema every night
rebecca appeared alongside boy meets girl creator elliott kerrigan on the sofa of bbc breakfast with louise minchin and jon kay on 3rd september .
she discussed her work on
boy meets girl
and
the danish girl
as well as aspects of her transition and off - screen life. you can read the art
ricky (michelle hendley) and francesca (alexandra turshen) explore new worlds with each other in “boy meets girl. ” (wolfe releasing )
boy meets girl takes its cue from the laid - back drawl of michelle hendley, whose unaffected performance provides a baseline of truth and humor .
quirky romantic comedy boy meets girl has just finished its run on the independent film circuit and racked up an impressive amount of critical acclaim while sweeping the 2014 filmout festival. now, this poignant film starring out transgender actress michelle hendley is ready to hit the big screen in early 2015, and will begin streaming online later in the year .
the advocate: i watched boy meets girl this week and i have to say ,
wow that was incredibly real .
michelle hendley: i' m so glad the film rang true for you! it was of the utmost importance to the boy meets girl crew to create a story that felt authentic to the trans experience .
a formidable young cast bring potent emotional power to boy meets girl, a rom - com with a refreshing premise that too often settles for formula .
the pilot for girl meets world was made available earlier this month for online streaming. one college - aged former boy meets world fan who checked it out said, according to fizziology, that it is “too disney. ”
in january, 2015, davey and gage were copanelists, along with the director, after a screening of boy meets girl. we had been asked to respond to the film from our perspectives as trans community members .
boy meets girl is a movie starring michael welch, michelle hendley, and alexandra turshen. boy meets girl is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams .
boy meets girl is the type of coming - of - age love story we don’t get to see very often: super queer, with a trans lead and a happy ending. it’s like a magical little unicorn of a film .
rebecca completed shooting
boy meets girl
in late february. transmission is expected to be sometime in the autumn of 2015. meanwhile a season trailer for bbc2 was recently released by the channel' s controller, kim shillinglaw. a sneak preview clip of boy meets girl is at around the 05: 56 time mark. you can watch the full trailer here .
filming has now begun on
boy meets girl
and a press release from tiger aspect productions, who are making the show for the bbc, produced a flurry of articles on the internet .
but the series disney channel made isn’t for those people. instead, and logically, it’s for the disney channel audience, a group as young as we were when we first watched boy meets world and who may not even have any idea what boy meets world is. girl meets world is simply a tween show with tween humor and loose ties to a series that grown ups used to love .
she spoke about her voice coaching for transgendered clients and her experiences as a transwoman and actor. she also confirmed she would be starring in the forthcoming bbc2 sitcom
boy meets girl
in 2015 .
boy meets girl has been a major success at numerous film festivals, particularly of the lgbt variety, and it' s easy to see why. it presents a moving and honest depiction of transgender issues that should be seen by any young person struggling with his or her identity .
2014. casting is yet to be confirmed. rapid and widespread coverage of what' s being hailed as
britain' s first transgender comedy
has been very favourable .
steven soderbergh' s atmospheric, film - noirish and experimental b / w film was a mystery - thriller tale of sad romance .
end prologue. the carax story really gets going with 1986’s mauvais sang, a movie even more capricious and self - consciously romantic than boy meets girl. you can read about that movie here — or better yet, watch it .
the disney channel’s follow - up to the tgif sitcom classic ‘boy meets world’ is perfect for a new generation. and that’s going to really piss the old generation off .
boy meets girl is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams .
platform. in her talk she spoke about the increasing visibility of trans people in the entertainment industry and her role in boy meets girl. the session may be viewed on the festival' s youtube page; rebecca' s talk is at around the 37 minute mark .
enjoying girl meets world on its own merits, however, requires us to age in reverse and go back to the mindset of the first episodes of the boy meets world, which were, frankly, far more juvenile than the series grew to be. a major plot point in the girl meets world pilot has riley leading a “no homework! more freedom! ” rebellion in her father’s classroom. it' s funny, but not to us. because we' re not 12 years old anymore. but the disney channel' s audience is .
here’s the peculiar issue with girl meets world: it’s a show that’s been created for a certain demographic, but it’s also a show that’s been created because of a certain, different demographic .
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this is all to say that, aside from the initial flutters of glee you’ll get from seeing ben savage’s and danielle fishel’s first entrances, there’s little for boy meets world fans to get excited about in girl meets world. in all likelihood, the millennials who couldn’t wait for it to begin are the ones who aren’t going to bother to watch a second episode. but we shouldn’t really be surprised .
for boy meets girl is a movie of much greater, and more subtle, appeal than its plot summary would indicate. plot is hardly what’s important here. like a lot of first features, the film is meandering but filled with incident, colorful details, bits of business obviously drawn from real life. carax has a ready supply of little jokes to keep the wayward narrative lively .
boy meets girl scooped the trans media award at the annual stonewall award ceremony on 5th november at the v & a. sir ian mckellen presented the trophy to the show' s creator elliott kerrigan, the writing team of simon carlyle and andrew mettam, producer margot gavan duffy, and rebecca root .
on 25th march 2015 as part of their lgbt movies series. she introduced the film that
the alex of boy meets girl rises above his cruddy boho milieu through the force of his imagination. as the primeval bowie number “when i live my dream” plays on the soundtrack, alex walks along the seine at night framing shots with his hands just like a director would, and a viewer seeing the film today can only wonder if this “alex” isn’t already mentally composing shots for les amants du pont - neuf .
the cool thing about boy meets world is that it grew up with us. what started as a kids show about first crushes and dog - ate - my - homework schoolyard hijinx eventually developed into a thoughtful series that (lightheartedly and humorously) explored what happens after the boy meets the world and becomes familiar with its more mature, sometimes darker realities: heartbreak, loss, sex, alcohol, and, in one infamous episode, cults .
it’s a feel - good film that gives a voice to characters who most heartily deserve one .
rebecca attended the los angeles premiere of the danish girl at the regency westwood theater on november 21st. also in attendance were the film' s director, tom hooper, stars eddie redmayne, alicia vikander
girl, citing declining viewing figures and a
natural conclusion
to judy and leo' s storyline .
rebecca root and eddie redmayne at the la premiere of the danish girl. photo (c) jaimie stevens
the topside test is, obviously, inspired by the bechdel test, and boy meets girl fails here too. the bechdel test requires a) two named women characters b) who talk to each other c) about something other than a man. even though much of the film focuses on ricky’s relationship with her new friend francesca (alexandra turshen), they never make it through a whole conversation without talking about the men in their lives .
girl meets world is a perfectly pleasant disney channel show. newcomer rowan blanchard plays riley, cory and topanga’s oldest daughter. it was mentioned before, but the point needs to be made again: riley is the star of girl meets world. the series is told through her eyes, which is frustrating for people who wanted to exclusively see what married life’s like for cory and topanga, but completely understandable for a network that has young kids to entertain .
we want to be careful not to present any one opinion as “the voice of the trans community. ” so rather than either of us reviewing the film, we’re doing it together. below are some questions we have asked ourselves and each other, and each of our responses, which together provide a critical trans and queer perspective on boy meets girl. (note: this review absolutely contains spoilers, as well as slightly graphic sexual language. )
boy meets girl is your first feature film. how did you get involved in the project? eric [ schaefer, the director ] found me via youtube and told me about his project. at first i thought he was just some dude on the internet with creepy intentions, but after checking out his [ page on ] internet movie database and skyping with him i realized he was a real deal director. i was very excited to be a part of the movie .
the film is due for release in the us in november 2015 and in the uk in january 2016 .
the oft - used expression
love is love
is given a thorough and quite beautiful workout by writer - director eric schaeffer in the captivating
boy meets girl .
the profoundly sensitive, often wryly funny look at friendship, romance, sexual attraction and gender identity carries themes and dynamics that feel as timeless as they do up - to - the - minute .
boy meets girl concluded its first season on 8th october. the show premiered on bbc2 on 3rd september to critical and public acclaim. visit the programme' s page on the bbc website here for details of latest episodes and how to watch past episodes on the bbc iplayer. the dvd was released on 12th october and is available to buy directly from acorn media here .
rebecca was interviewed by the bfi as part of the 2015 bfi flare festival. she discussed the neil jordan film
the film' s potentially most affecting moments are too often smothered by the hackneyed characters and setups that surround them .
in anticipation of friday’s girl meets world premiere, social media research firm fizziology scoured twitter, facebook, tumblr, and other popular social media platforms to gauge opinion on the show’s revival. it found that more that 80 percent of the people talking positively about the show’s upcoming premiere were over the age of 18. of the people who were interested in watching the premiere, 70 percent indicated that they grew up on boy meets world and would be watching the show nostalgically. only 30 percent were younger disney channel fans—problematic, considering they’re who this show is for .
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about 18 months ago, word got out that the disney channel would be developing a follow - up series to the long - running, beloved - by - millennials tgif sitcom boy meets world. the original series wrapped in 2000 after airing 158 episodes and aging its precocious lead characters—ben savage’s cory matthews and danielle fishel’s topanga lawrence—all the way from sixth - grade sweethearts to married college graduates. the planned follow - up was a tv fan’s dream: girl meets world would insert us right back into cory and topanga’s married lives as if we never left, 14 years later .
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the film' s theme tied together puberty with blood, sexual desire and metamorphic body changes (including possession and infection) .
“boy meets girl” comes across not just as an emotional story, but also an earnestly instructive one. the director wants to make sure the audience walks away with no questions about life as transgender, which can be entertaining — as when ricky and robby have conversations about what it feels like to bed a woman — and deeply affecting, such as when ricky literally lays herself bare, emerging from a lake entirely naked. often, it feels conspicuously educational .
leos carax, france’s most interesting director of the last few decades, has made just five features in the last 30 years (boy meets girl, 1984; mauvais sang, ’86; les amants du pont - neuf, ’91; pola x, ’99, and of course holy motors, 2012), and yet his films make up a formidable body of work. taken together, his five movies chart his progression from charming enfant terrible to maestro of deranged spectacles .
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stuffed with earnest speeches and “did that feel good? ” post - mortems — and a cloying montage at the end — “boy meets girl” can feel like a too - pointed, simplistic lesson in acceptance. even so, mr. schaeffer doesn’t shy from the darkness at the edge of difference, using the social - media confessions of ricky’s younger self to deepen the narrative and deliver his most critical message: that no matter what our equipment says, we don’t have to agree .
craving more trans actors playing trans roles? meet michelle hendley, whose debut as charming small - town trans girl ricky has viewers and critics wanting more .
gage: i don’t really have grand ideas about the role of art or its responsibility to society or anything. i will say however that the current situation in this moment means that putting trans characters, and especially trans women, into movies is a way to make the film “edgy” and get much more attention than it otherwise would receive. we’ve seen this with dallas buyer’s club, transparent, and now also with boy meets girl. keeping this in mind i think that films which are using trans women and benefiting merely from including a trans women as a character have an obligation to at least do a good job with their representations .
gage: the topside test was created to highlight a problem in mainstream media, where trans characters are always portrayed in isolation, even though in reality, most trans people are part of trans community or have relationships with other trans people. the test requires a) two trans characters b) who know each other and c) talk about something other than a transition - related medical procedure. boy meets girl has only one trans character, so it fails the topside test on the first criterion .
the title “ boy meets girl ” suggests a run - of - the - mill romantic comedy, and at first the movie appears to be just that. a 20 - something man and woman, longtime best friends, hang out at a coffee shop and give each other a hard time. he’s an avowed lothario and she’s lamenting the dearth of relationship - focused guys. both are beautiful, so of course you set your stopwatch for how long it’ll take these two to just fall for each other already .
rebecca appeared at the uk premiere of the danish girl at london' s odeon leicester square cinema on 8th december 2015. the event was attended by the film' s stars eddie redmayne, alicia vikander, sebastian koch and matthias schoenaerts as well as director tom hooper, screenwriter lucinda coxon, and producer gail mutrux .
davey: with regard to feminism, my biggest critique of boy meets girl is that, like most romantic films, it uncritically buys into the romance myth – the idea that falling in love solves all of life’s problems. there are many well - documented feminist critiques pointing out the problems with the romance myth (see e. g. all about love: new visions by bell hooks, and this by dean spade). the fact that in this case one of the characters is trans does not fix any of those problems .
special thanks to hb lozito and green mountain crossroads for hosting our local screening and for making space for trans people to share their perspectives on the film .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
rebecca will attend the london premiere on december 8th at the odeon leicester square; the film' s general uk release follows on january 1st, 2016 .
union high school student over 40 years ago, and his family still resides in the area. viewers will recognize many of the film’s vermont locations and actors ,
with a couple of big twists on the romantic - comedy genre, this gorgeous little film is almost impossible to resist. and that' s precisely the point .
the panel did not go as planned, so we decided to write this article together as a forum to say what we would have liked to say then about the film .
a play about
artistic temperaments, film making, composing and how one woman overcame fear and prejudice to live as the person she' d always wanted to be .
its mere existence is owed to the legions of boy meets world fans, most of whom are grown adults now, reminiscing about how much they loved it on social media and devouring remembrances of it on sites like buzzfeed. the hoopla surrounding the nostalgia hinted that those people would be beside themselves with excitement over a reboot of the show. disney was right. when the show was announced, they flipped for the news .
on the surface, the film sounds like richard linklater' s
before sunrise
or any number of other meet - cute - in - a - foreign - city stories. but very quickly, other things start to come to the surface, things that don' t quite fit. the tension between the expectations that arise due to the familiar genre and what is actually happening onscreen makes
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special, and a bit strange. there' s also the undeniable fact that the girl in the film is, in actuality, a girl. she' s half the age of william, the lead character. so any possibility of romance is distinctly illegal in nature .
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doesn' t shy away from that, and is unafraid to allow that queasy reality to come to the surface. the film doesn' t entirely work, but sometimes things that don' t entirely work are interesting, bringing tension and unresolved issues that start to take over the film, almost by stealth. it' s nice to watch something that isn' t neat, that doesn' t play it safe .
during the beginning of his search (conducted like the film blow - up (1966) ), mikael became suspicious that he was being tracked and someone had hacked into his computer .
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on november 23rd, rebecca was a guest at the white house champions of change event and dc premiere of the danish girl. guests included the cast and creative team of the popular amazon prime series transparent .
gage: i’m a trans woman in my early 20’s. i’m approaching this film from my perspective of a young trans woman, for whom one would hope a young trans woman character might resonate .
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gage: trans women are telling our own stories and have been for decades. but these stories are rarely heard by cis folks (and especially straight cis folks). beyond funding, i think we need to examine the cis audience’s attitudes. we need cisgender audiences who are excited to see movies (including in straight / mainstream theaters) in which they’re not centered or the intended viewer. trans women who have interesting stories to tell are writing them with other trans women in mind as the audience. plenty of other people can also get a lot out of these stories, but the stories won’t pander to a simplistic straight cisgender understanding of gender and sexuality like boy meets girl does .
we’re all primed for the joy of the idea a pop - culture revival. but we’re never prepared for the sorrows of its disappointing reality. maybe, then, there’s something to be learned from the message of this girl meets world pilot. the crux of the episode follows maya and riley’s discovery of who they truly are and learning to embrace it. maybe we should do the same with this show, instead of wishing that it was something else .
ben affleck' s directorial debut film was an adaptation of dennis lehane' s novel gone, baby, gone. in the film' s opening voice - over narration during the credits, private investigator patrick kenzie (casey affleck) spoke about how his job was to find missing people because of his connections in the tough neighborhood where he grew up (in the working class area of dorchester near boston) :
until then, ricky is stuck in her home town, somewhere in kentucky, working as a barista and perpetually shooting the breeze with her best buddy since first grade, robby (michael welch), an easygoing, good - old - boy mechanic .
but something wild happened in those 14 years. cory and topanga had a daughter. she’s in middle school. now, she’s also the star of girl meets world. and those of use who were clamoring for more of the cory - and - topanga story we fell in love with over a decade ago? well, we don’t want her to be. in fact, we—if i could be a bit of pop - culture lorax for the moment and speak for all of us—are kind of annoyed that she is .
what are your thoughts on the differences between the ideal and the reality of language around trans folks. many of us might cringe when ricky uses terms “biological girl” or “the full surgery, ” and there are also trans folks who would use that language .
a ground - breaking coming - of - age romantic comedy, the film explores how falling in love transcends gender and how important it is to live a courageous life without fear standing in the way of your dreams. (c )
great movie, really liked it. the girl is so pretty as well, would really not pick her as transgendered aside from her voice. really a sweet story about how you can fall in love with a person and not a gender and to follow your dreams .
a childhood acquaintance from simon' s past, gordon moseley, was actually the victim of simon' s bullying and torment - and simon was revealed as the real villain of the film. in high school, simon had spread the lie that gordon was gay and had been seen being molested by an older boy in a car. afterwards, the accusation ruined gordon' s life. gordon set up an elaborate scheme to get payback revenge over 20 years later, including possibly impregnating simon' s drugged - up wife robyn during an alleged rape
carax was born alex dupont in 1960. the boy wonder wasn’t one to shy away from pretension: his assumed name is an anagram of “alex oscar, ” alluding to his childhood dream of winning an academy award. he dropped out of school while still a teenager, which isn’t surprising given his early work. to judge by his first two features, engaging affairs bursting with precocious talent, carax had already assimilated 70 years of filmmaking technique at an age when most would - be directors are struggling to get approval for their final film - school projects .
the' ghostwriter' wrote the sentence on a piece of paper, passed through a number of hands to ruth, and shortly after, as he stepped outside with the original manuscript, he was run - down (off - screen) in the street (the same thoroughfare in the film' s opening). he was murdered like mcara, in order to silence him - or were both deaths just an accident? his manuscript papers blew down the street in the wind as the film faded to white before the credits .
what one may expect to happen does not exactly go down as planned .
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remains true to its own original and somewhat prickly course. there are moments when it is not clear at all why effy is even choosing to hang out with william, who is rude and combative (in moments big and small). but she wants to know what happened to william' s grandfather. over the course of the film an interesting thing starts happening. william starts to take responsibility for the words he uses. he starts to actually listen to himself and do his best to change course. a lifetime of being a rude rage - boy will not vanish overnight, and a lesser film would have made it effy' s job to show him the better way. but
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isn' t really about that. nobody can save you. you have to save yourself .
along the rocky path of his career, carax has been celebrated as a boy genius and jeered and derided as a fraud. the director has won awards, bankrupted producers, conducted affairs with his leading actresses, and in general shown a stubborn willingness to suffer for his art. what more romantic trajectory could there be for a virtuoso auteur ?
ricky' s life takes a dramatic turn when she meets francesca (alexandra turshen), the sort of refined debutante who uses the expression
charmed, i' m sure
upon being introduced to someone. despite being engaged to a marine serving in afghanistan, francesca finds herself attracted to ricky, and the two begin a relationship .
the general was court - martialed and found guilty for failing to report and concealing the west point gang - rape. he subsequently withdrew from public life. the film' s ending title :
today, nearly 200, 000 women serve on active duty in the military services .
there was only one twin - elias. the other identical twin lukas was killed in an
accident
( probably one that also disfigured the face of the mother) before the events of the film. experiencing deep denial and guilt, elias was only imagining that lukas was alive .
“the voices, ” the new horroresque dark comedy from celebrated “persepolis” director marjane satrapi, ought to be a major career moment for star ryan reynolds. he plays jerry hickfang, an apparently normal man who works in a bathtub factory in a charming little town called milton. jerry lives in an apartment over a bowling alley with his cat, mr. whiskers, and his dog, bosco. he’s got a crush on fiona (gemma arterton), the pretty british girl who works in accounting, and he meets regularly with a sweet and understanding therapist (jacki weaver). in other words, he seems like an average guy. read more here .
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“even if you care little about him as a politician — and i’ll confess to that myself — ‘mitt’ offers up a fascinating divide between the private man and the public image. it’s a divide the film is unable to account for on screen, which is understandable and frustrating. ” read more here .
gage: another part of the movie’s depiction of ricky that i found unrealistic and offensive is during the climactic events after robby (ricky’s best friend since childhood) tells ricky, in an angry outburst, that ricky has never really been a girl. this obviously upsets ricky, and she runs off distraught, but what happened next was unbelievable to me. robby chases after ricky and when he finds her (naked by the swimming hole) she is super ready to have sex with him! telling a trans woman she isn’t really a girl / woman is really hurtful, and i can’t believe ricky being ready to fuck robby almost immediately after he said that to her .
in the film' s tense conclusion, the two agents engaged in a fight - to - the - death combat atop his destroyed control center - lair in cuba. bond raced to disarm the transmitter - antenna of a large satellite dish communicating with a second, deadly rogue goldeneye satellite nuclear - weapon .
with “ping pong summer, ” director michael tully (“cocaine angel, ” “septien”) gives us a film about the childhood he remembers: summers in ocean city, maryland (where the film was shot), cheesy arcade games, pastels, nike, and hip hop. caught up in it all, radford miracle (marcello conte) searches for the confidence that promises adulthood. it’s the 1980s: these are harsh times in bland, touristy coast towns. with an exuberant eye for period details, tully presents an ode to a time many recall fondly or its flare and schlock alike. read more here .
in the brilliant first two - thirds of the film, the focus was on the strange and random behavior of the mother (a
bait - and - switch
directorial technique), not on what the twins were doing. they went to extremes to test and torment her - changing the film' s mood to torture - porn. elias let a giant pet madagascar hissing cockroach squirm from his sleeping mother' s chest into her mouth. in a ghastly and brutal torture sequence, the two twins tied their mother to her bed and demanded that she prove her identity, or tell them where their real mother was .
talented cinematographer alan poon gives us dreamy beautiful shots of the city, its buildings, canals, cobblestone alleyways, crowded nightclubs. his work helps ground the film .
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knows life is complex, and knows that most of us are messes most of the time. hopefully we all do our best and try not to hurt one another; try to be kind. william doesn' t quite get that, not yet, because he' s too self - righteous and pissed off. but the film is, in many ways, his lurching journey towards starting to understand that his character is up to him and him alone .
read between the lies
was the intriguing tagline for roman polanski' s taut and increasingly - claustrophobic film about paranoia and power struggles. it had similarities to real - life political figures, including british prime minister tony blair and his wife claire, us sec. of state condoleeza rice, and the halliburton corporation .
“the film’s biggest shortcoming is its inability to trust the enormous power of its subjects. the magic that comes out of watching patients’ rediscoveries works best when shown uninterrupted. too often, however, these moments get relegated to part of a longer montage or used merely to enforce an industry professional’s point. ” read more here .
“finding fela, ” prolific documentarian alex gibney’s latest work, faces the challenge of depicting a contradictory artist. but that’s not to say it isn’t entertaining. on the contrary, the film — about the life, times and music of afrobeat superstar and nigerian revolutionary fela kuti — is exceptionally watchable. kuti’s wild life never loses its surprise ingredients: from the time he married 27 girls in one ceremony to his involvement with a “spiritual guru” who slit throats for party demonstrations. the film’s challenge lays in its difficult hero, an enormously talented and charismatic man who was also troubled, stubborn, unpredictable, and probably not entirely sane. read more here .
the three main sections of the film were told from different viewpoints: first tully, then jake, and finally lena. jake was warned not to get involved by various competing interests, and clearly cautioned by american colonel muller (beau bridges) :
when i was at west point, we put a uniform on a mule .
carter smith’s “jamie marks is dead” is a spooky rendition of teenage passion and shame. it has requisite angst and melodrama, but they’re guided by the film’s immersive atmosphere and sense of place. it’s a gothic romance—a sort of coming out, bullying story that projects onto its world the moods and emotions of its characters. read more here .
with the sundance film festival concluding another 10 - day edition sunday, indiewire’s review coverage of the lineup came to an end as well. of the nearly 100 world premieres that screened in park city this year, indiewire reviewed 66 titles, including films from every section of the festival. links to all of them can be found below, divided by sundance’s categories .
previous to your acting career, you had a youtube channel where you shared your transition details. do you feel that helped you prepare to be in front of a camera as an actress? yes! it seems silly to think that a bunch of youtube videos would help prepare me for my film debut, but it definitely cut my nerves in front of the camera a bit .
by now, devoted cinephiles likely know what to expect going into a gregg araki movie: sex - crazed teens, an overabundance of nudity (sometimes pretty, sometimes not), a dream - like story wrapped snugly in a nightmare and a killer soundtrack. however, it would be lazy for someone to call it trash cinema—there’s a lot of feeling in his films (please watch “mysterious skin” now). araki is a brilliant director who finds a great deal of meaning in stories of teenage angst and sexual desire, and is perhaps the finest example of coming - of - rage cinema. his latest film, “white bird in a blizzard, ” is his most grownup film to date, but never deviates far from his comfort zone. read more here .
madame bovary begins when charles bovary is a young boy, unable to fit in at his new school and ridiculed by his new classmates. as a child, and later when he grows into a young man, charles is mediocre and dull. he fails his first medical exam and only barely manages to become a second - rate country doctor. his mother marries him off to a widow who dies soon afterward, leaving charles much less money than he expected .
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but it' s hendley' s ricky who commands attention, thanks to the performer' s utter naturalism in front of the camera and her willingness to bare herself both emotionally and, in one of the film' s most affecting scenes, physically. the filmmaker, who sought out hendley after seeing her confessional videos on youtube, has done a superb job of shepherding her acting debut .
it was both a complex serial - killer procedural and a neo - noir, with themes of generational sexual abuse, sadistic violence against women, revenge, family secrets, corporate corruption, and nazi racism. it was the first adaptation of the millennium trilogy, a series of books by stieg larsson. there were a number of questions to be answered in the film as it told its story .
but the film largely concentrates on the relationships between ricky and the people in her life, including her supportive father and loving kid brother. the characterizations are drawn with an uncommon complexity: francesca proves far more open - minded than her upbringing would suggest; robby ultimately realizes that his feelings for ricky extend far beyond friendship; and even the bigoted michael turns out to have a reason for his explosive anger .
writer / director joel edgerton' s twisting vengeance - based thriller (his directorial debut film) had some elements of fatal attraction (1987), the hand that rocks the cradle (1992), and michael haneke' s cache (2005). a suburban la couple had just relocated from chicago due to a change in the husband' s work (and after robyn had lost a pregnancy) :
davey: i’m a genderqueer trans person. i’ve been “out” as genderqueer and trans since 1999. i’m also a consultant who provides professional development training around trans inclusion to educators, service providers and community members. i’m approaching this film from my own perspective as a trans community member, and also from the perspective of someone who spends a lot of time with would - be allies who are new to trans issues .
in the film' s conclusion, vengeful myra had been shot to death by lilly, and then myra' s face - blasted and disfigured corpse was made to look like lilly' s. roy was called upon, as next - of - kin, to identify his mother at the phoenix morgue - he concealed that he noticed lilly' s right hand did not have its tell - tale cigar burn mark .
davey: for one thing, it would take funding. trans women are economically marginalized, and mostly lack the resources needed to launch artistic endeavors on the scale of a feature - length film with paid cast and crew. even before that point, discrimination in education and employment means that many trans women are excluded from opportunities to get the training and experience needed to create something on this scale. fund trans - led work !
lisbeth (the
girl with the dragon tattoo
on her back) was curious about mikael' s quest into the vanger family, and provided him with an essential clue (regarding some strange numbers). she soon after joined him on vangers' remote island, exemplifying her advanced computer research skills and photographic memory. together, they pursued leads from photographs, news articles, harriet' s belongings, unsolved police cases, and the vanger' s own business records .
legend has it that charlie parker only became bird because jo jones furiously threw a cymbal at his head when he choked on stage. at least that’s the story fletcher (j. k. simmons), the barbarous band conductor in damien chazelle’s “whiplash, ” uses to justify the emotional and physical abuse he subjects his students to during rehearsal. a feature - length reprise of chazelle’s award - winning short of the same name, the film also stars miles teller (“the spectacular now”) as andrew, a budding young drummer at the country’s top music school who thinks he’s the next buddy rich. this high - energy tale of blood, toil, tears and sweat feels especially apt given this year’s inclusion of the “free fail” panel at the festival, which, like the film itself, explores the notion of failure as integral to the creative process. read more here .
filmed and set in a rural kentucky town, the story follows ricky (played by michelle hendley) and robby (played by michael welch, twilight series) who have been friends since they were 6 - years - old. now in their early twenties, robby, the epitome of a rural southern car mechanic and ricky, a cute trans girl who works in a coffee shop and dreams of being a fashion designer, push through their mundane days and lament their limited dating possibilities .
in the pre - title credits sequence, nine years before the events of the film, british agent 007 james bond (pierce brosnan) was working alongside british secret agent 006 alec trevelyan (sean bean). their assignment was to destroy a soviet nerve gas factory at the arkangel chemical weapons facility, but the mission went awry and trevelyan was executed. as he was shot by general ouromov (gottfried john), trevelyan called out :
for england, james .
we have a history of doing this. we campaigned tirelessly for a revival of arrested development, and then whined when it wasn’t as good as the original series. (because these things are never as good as the original .) we even gave our own hard - earned money to a kickstarter campaign to produce a movie version of veronica mars —we literally put our money where our mouths are—and then didn’t bother to show up to watch the film once it was released in theaters .
a guy and a girl bicycle slowly through the streets of copenhagen, the colored buildings and wide canals their placid and beautiful backdrop. the sun is setting, the shadows lengthening, making the city seem less like an actual place than a dream space, one where truth can come out, where the regular rules of everyday life no longer apply, where something else is possible. in its best moments ,
copenhagen ,
the debut feature of mark raso, who also wrote the script, takes place in that dream space .
[ the film' s plot twist hinged on the fact that lukas didn' t exist, similar to m. night shyamalan' s ending of the sixth sense (1999), and numerous other films, such as carnival of souls (1962), fight club (1999), haute tension (2003), identity (2003), a tale of two sisters (2003, s. korea), the machinist (2004), and the uninvited (2009). ]
outside, christine was getting in a taxi on her way to her next game (or
gig
) assignment in australia (with a small
walk - on
role). after she revealed her real name was claire (
you don' t know anything about me
), nicholas invited her to dinner. she counter - invited him to join her for coffee at the airport - the film' s final line :
would you like to have a coffee with me at the airport ?
it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where does william eubank’s “the signal” goes from being an alluring and contained science fiction thriller into a full blown parade of slow - motion - driven visual effects. its irreverent stylistic choices range from found footage to romance tropes and a heavy dose of high - tech alien robotics. the director’s sophomore film, following his debut “love, ” is defined by immeasurable ambition. while that previous effort reached for existentially profound ideas, here the narrative and its numerous components suffer from a gratuitous, empty feel. read more here .
the first words to appear onscreen in “wetlands, ” director david wnendt’s cheerfully profane adaptation of charlotte roche’s german - language bestseller, immediately engage with its controversy. “this book shouldn’t be adapted to a film, ” reads a quote from a letter to the editor. wnendt not only proceeds to run against that advice but makes a solid case against it. anchored by a believable performance by carla juri, “wetlands” has the agreeable rhythms of a sleekly made teen angst dramedy…except that this one involves a young woman with an anal fissure. read more here.
boy meets girl is a 2014 american romance film directed by eric schaeffer . it stars michelle hendley as a transgender woman living in a small town in kentucky , looking for love . 
boy meets girl is a 2014 american romance film directed by eric schaeffer. it stars michelle hendley as a transgender woman living in a small town in kentucky, looking for love.
boy meets girl is a 2014 american romance film directed by eric schaeffer. it stars michelle hendley as a transgender woman living in a small town in kentucky, looking for love.