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o' pray, michael, editor, andy warhol: the film factory, lon - don, 1989 .
producer: andy warhol; photographer: andy warhol; screenplay: andy warhol and ronald tavel; music: the velvet underground; production assistant: paul morrissey .
the invitation to the 1965 premiere of andy warhol’s film “empire, ” now being shown in its entirety at the james fuentes gallery .
the writing of the film carried what the cinematography and editing lacked in “one night”. broad daylight scenes were noisy and continuity was found through the film .
ehrenstein, david, in film culture (new york), fall 1966 .
“ breathe, ” the film directed by andy serkis that will premiere next month at the toronto film festival, has been named a centerpiece film at the 2017 hamptons international film festival, which has also announced an initial batch of titles on the slate including alexandre moors’ “ the yellow birds ” with toni collette and jennifer aniston and vincent gagliostro’s “after louie, ” starring alan cumming .
tyler, parker, underground film: a critical history, new york, 1969 .
the contrasts of the couples were represented through the scores and settings of the film .
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an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
sipping jetstreams by taylor steele - feat. kelly slater, alex gray, andy irons
the 2017 hamptons international film festival runs oct. 5 - 9, with passes going on sale sept. 5 .
a title has finally been announced for the long - awaited lonely island film project and it' s expectedly irreverent .
director minhal baig created a visually creative film and written script. a notable theme taken was “same but different. ”
reviewed at venice film festival (out of competition — nonfiction), september 5, 2017. running time: 95 min .
gidal, peter, andy warhol' s films and paintings, london, 1971, 1991 .
wilcock, john, the autobiography and sex life of andy warhol, new york, 1971 .
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yet, the detail in the character’s development is what made this film special. strong writing and acting is what carried the movie .
with the headline: screen:' andy' at beekman; simple tale succeeds at modest level .
elizabeth and andy carried the cast. camp’s performance had one of the strongest on - screen performances .
lugg, andrew ,
on andy warhol ,
in cineaste (new york), winter 1967–68 .
an underground ‘indie’ score followed bea and andy’s relationship while a dramatic score was placed for elizabeth and drew .
tyler, parker ,
dragtime or drugtime: or film a la warhol ,
in evergreen revue (new york), april 1967 .
the world premiere of “one night” explored the beauty and nativity of love oct. 14 during its screening at the 23rd annual austin film festival .
what do you do if you' re nine and nobody will tell you what
fellatio
means? when andy' s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, andy is not on her best behaviour. armed with a supersoaker and a devious mind, andy corners the men, who can do nothing buy comply .
he also directed “man in the wilderness, ” “the man who loved cat dancing, ” “run wild, run free” and other movies. his first feature film, “andy, ” was the story of a developmentally disabled man scraping by in new york .
the state theatre oct. 14 during the austin film festival. a variety of films were screened in the theater during the duration of the festival .
pratt, alan r. , editor, the critical response to andy warhol, westport, connecticut, 1997 .
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…
chris smith' s on - set documentary about jim carrey channeling andy kaufman is a ticklish meditation on comedy and identity .
smith, patrick s. , andy warhol' s art and films, ann arbor, michi - gan, 1986 .
the beloved prison saga’s big reveal comes when andy dufresne (tim robbins) vanishes from his cell. the dastardly warden tears a raquel welch poster off the wall to reveal andy’s tunnel. so who stuck the poster back in place after his escape ?
matters become complicated when norton has andy assist him with some shady dealings, involving andy having to launder the warden' s money so that nothing gets traced back to either of them. a financial wizard who knows all the loopholes, andy launders everything through a mr. randall stevens: a completely fictional human being who even has his own social security card and birth certificate .
as for andy the talking hedgehog, no release date has been announced. however, its spiritual cousin might be a real film that reisig produced last year, entitled arlo the burping pig. if the trailer is any indication, arlo the burping pig is about a pig that can burp so hard that peoples’ hats fall off. if andy the talking hedgehog is anything like arlo the burping pig, you can pretty much count me in .
what do you do if you' re nine and nobody will tell you what
fellatio
means? when andy' s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, andy is not on her best behaviour. armed with a... see full summary »
koch, stephen, stargazer: andy warhol' s world and his films, new york, 1973; revised edition, 1985 .
cipnic, d. j. ,
andy warhol: iconographer ,
in sight and sound (london), summer 1972 .
obviously, like the rest of the world, i desperately wanted to know the story behind andy the talking hedgehog. although we can rule out the summary as nothing more than internet high jinks, it would appear that the film is real. back in november actress maria wasikowski tweeted a photo from the andy the talking hedgehog set, alongside dean cain and, one month later, tara reid instagrammed a shot of her character, fairy bff .
before andy leaves, he makes red promise that if he ever gets out, he' ll dig up something in a remote hayfield .
norton
releases the hounds ,
but andy' s long gone—and was probably too covered in sewage to leave much of a scent anyway .
when tara reid tweeted the poster for her latest film, the internet assumed it was a joke. but the truth is far more peculiar, and shines a light on modern low - budget moviemaking
according to mr. mekas, he and warhol joked during the shoot that with the building’s phallic shape, the whole film might be censored as pornography. but “empire” is more like endless foreplay .
without a happy or sad ending, “one night” left audience members with a story to be told and open for interpretation making the film a movie for everyone not just a ‘rom - com’ niche .
warhol, andy ,
my favourite superstar, notes on my epic, chelsea girls
in arts magazine (new york), february 1967 .
a high school flourishing relationship of bea (“orphan” isabelle fuhrman) and andy (kyle allen) depict the butterflies in stomach stage of a relationship .
as andy tells red, he was clean as a whistle on the outside; it took being sent to prison to turn him into a crook .
the indiegogo page was created by joel paul reisig, the film’s director. and it would appear that reisig is the mastermind behind be your own hollywood. he’s a 33 - year - old self - taught michigan native who writes, directs and produces an astonishing number of movies each year. he balances his film - making career with a series of $ 395 two - day seminars on how to write, produce, fund and distribute movies. these workshops might also double as a story - finding scheme, since in 2012 he produced a film called mary’s buttons, which was written by a seminar attendee .
for all of its foibles, “good kids” does manage to hit a few poignant emotional beats. a scene where a baked andy accidentally stumbles into the wrong house while searching for his “tennis” client leads to having a heart - to - heart with one of his bro - y peers, conch (dayo okeniyi). conch opens andy’s eyes to the reality that the quartet were never really outcasts, but rather they isolated themselves from the other kids. it’s one of the few interesting scenes in the film, addressing a grey area as to whether those who view themselves as misfits are actually outsiders, or whether they sub - consciously exclude themselves out of self - preservation. the film’s final scene with andy and nora saying their goodbyes is also surprisingly poignant, evoking a denouement of new lost chances and endings, with the promise of new beginnings on the horizon .
the four main characters are decently portrayed throughout the film. braun acquits himself adequately to the role andy, and most of the film’s antics revolve around this character, in particular his unexpected summer job as a gigolo / tennis instructor and his online relationship with a girl from india, whom his friends think is a catfish. andy’s shenanigans are mildly amusing at best, and include a montage showing how he serves his “tennis” clients, an unexpected nude escape, and subsequent streaking charge. the best gag involves yogurt, and it will make any woman who’s had a uti clap their hands with vindictive glee. for the most part however, the gang comes off as “ american pie ” lite. the romance is also something left to be desired. andy’s supposedly long simmering attraction to nora comes out of nowhere, and it feels rather like a plot point that’s been added because it’s an expected trope of the genre, rather than organically weaved into the story. the worn out shtick of “guy is jealous of female friend’s new relationship, tears down and belittles girl” leaves a sour taste, but thankfully nora calls andy out on his behavior .
andy warhol was a genius, but he could be mean. he loved to make his acolytes squabble. he’d torture visitors by blaring the same pop song over and over .
“andy warhol is the most revolutionary of all filmmakers working today, ” jonas mekas, the village voice critic and film pioneer, wrote less than a month after “empire” was shot. last week, over lunch at a bar a few blocks from fuentes, which represents him, mr. mekas, 91, still voiced the same views on warhol. “he was the avant - garde, ” mr. mekas said .
mockumentary, co - produced by judd apatow, that is cut from the same cloth as spinal tap; exciting news for those familiar with the comedy trio headed by andy samberg .
richard c. sarafian, a hollywood director best known for the speed - addled saga of squealing brakes and existential angst chronicled in the 1971 cult film “vanishing point, ” died sept. 18 in santa monica, calif. he was 83 .
mr. and mrs. cliadakis, a couple of greek immigrants, live in a poor neighborhood of new york. their son, andy, is in his forties but he has the mental age of a child and his behavior outside the norm is not taken well by the neighbors of the family. andy' s parents therefore decide to put him in a nursing home ...
andy dufresne, the young, successful vice president of a major bank, finds his life taking a serious detour after his wife and her lover are murdered and the crime gets pinned on him .
“empire” had its premiere on march 6, 1965, and mr. mekas has saved the invitations, which credit the movie to “andy warhol and john palmer. ” we seem to glimpse mr. palmer, as well as mr. mekas, at the beginning of two of the film’s 10 reels, reflected in the time & life building window. there’s also a few seconds’ reflection of a man who must be warhol, taking a look through the camera .
“good kids” is a passible feature film debut from chris mccoy, having only previously directed the short, “ the bicycle. ” the film’s biggest problem lies in the writing. the screenplay is unevenly paced and relies much too heavily on tired teen movie tropes rather than attempting to tell a genuine story. mccoy is good at creating strong emotional moments, as evidenced in his previous short, but he tends to fall back on conventional and tired themes to move the story along. the film’s cinematography, courtesy of jimmy lindsey (“ limitless, ” “ revolution ”) is crisp, clear, and utilitarian, featuring beautiful shots of a shore town, easily capturing the beauty of summer. the fight sequence between “the lion” and the cabal of cuckolds is a bit dodgy, but could have been a lot worse .
a personal favorite was a bea and andy dinner scene. the couple found themselves in a higher end hotel restaurant ordering a plate of pancakes with jam and a plate of fries – a beautifully constructed contrast .
warhol shot the skyscraper between about 8: 10 p. m. and 2: 30 a. m. on july 25 and 26, 1964. this month, in its 50th - anniversary year, the film is being projected by the james fuentes gallery from start to finish .
one of the most magical scenes in steven spielberg’s classic is when e. t. makes elliott and co’s bikes fly. the glowy - fingered alien has telekinetic powers. so why doesn’t he levitate himself at the start of the film and get back on the spaceship before his buddies leave him behind ?
there' s a glimmer of hope for andy when tommy, a new inmate, arrives at the prison, and it turns out he has information that could exonerate his new friend. the warden learns about it, and is none too keen to release into society someone with so much dirt on him. he has tommy murdered, throws andy into solitary for two months, and only releases him once he agrees to keep doing his dirty work .
the son of armenian immigrants, richard caspar sarafian was born april 28, 1930, in new york city. he attended new york university but “was a rotten student, ” he told the armenian reporter in 2008, until he took a course in film writing and directing: “i got an a! ”
“my first marriage didn’t work out but i definitely identified with what elizabeth was going through, ” camp said. “i was going through my divorce when we made this film and i wasn’t planning on getting married again when i shot this. it was emotional for me to watch this and to shoot. ”
“man on the moon” remains one of the most misunderstood great movies of the ’90s (a lot of people just saw it as carrey doing kaufman’s greatest hits), because it’s really about how andy kaufman sacrificed his identity to showbiz — and, in doing so, became a herald for the age when entertainment would consume everything in its path, from our dreams to our identities. when kaufman wrestled women, coming on like bobby riggs on steroids and taunting the redneck crowds who turned out to see him, was it a put - on or was it a deep - down reflection of “the real andy”? actually, it was the real andy pretending to be what he hated, and realizing that he loved being that way, but mostly because of the reaction it provoked .
the warden learns the shocking truth: for almost two decades, andy has been chiseling away at the wall with a rock hammer and hiding his handiwork behind a series of pinup posters procured by red, finally making his escape through the sewer pipes the night before .
“isabelle was actually the one who advocated for (allen), ” baig said. “we let him read and we knew he was our guy but we played it off like ‘yeah he’s alright’ and then went into another room and were like ‘yes he’s (andy) ’” .
after another ten years, red does just that. he discovers that andy left him some spending money, as well as instructions on how to find him. the two friends are reunited on the beach in mexico, with one of most yearbook quote - worthy lines ever :
when i saw the film, i became one of its greatest champions (it wound up being my movie of the year for 1999), and carrey’s extraordinary performance vaulted over all my doubts. in “man on the moon, ” he nailed every nuance of andy kaufman ’s spirit, and he used his own mercurial quality as a comic to tease out the secret of kaufman’s genius, which is that he wasn’t just some dada tv art prankster crafting stunts to mess with your head. and he didn’t just want to make you laugh, either. he wanted to leave you amazed. he was, in that way, the very soul of showbiz .
anyway, he' s sent to shawshank prison, where he' s befriended by some total sweethearts, including a convicted murderer named red who eventually becomes his best bud. red' s a guy who
knows how to get things ,
and andy asks him to get him a rock hammer to collect rocks—he' s always been an amateur geology fan. red' s glad to oblige. andy' s also befriended by some guys who are... well, let' s just say they don' t want to examine rocks with him .
when reid tweeted the andy the talking hedgehog poster on friday, the internet went nuts. that was partly because the poster featured a hedgehog, two cats, dean cain, tara reid’s twitter profile pic manipulated to look slightly more wholesome and an unattributed quote calling it “a magical good time”. but it was also because the imdb plot summary for the film read “tara reid brings her oscar award - winning prowess to this documentary about a hedgehog that dean cain farted on giving it the ability to talk. it’s a fun - loving family movie that will for sure make you say “wowza. that’s a stinky fart! ”’ that summary, incidentally, was attributed to scott baio .
the orlando bloom - esque ben winchell stars as max mcgrath, a shy 16 - year - old who’s sick of moving from town to town with his widowed mother, molly (maria bello, whose mere presence is the only reason this movie gets half a star). at the film’s start, the two have just come back to the hometown of his late father (mike doyle, seen in flashbacks), a scientist who died long ago in a mysterious, explosive accident. dad’s former partner, miles (andy garcia, hamming it up big - time), who’s now in charge of the company the two built together, arrives soon afterward to help them get settled .
those glimpses feel especially important as you watch the film. they give a sense of the duration of the shooting of “empire, ” and of real people endlessly gazing out the window at the actual skyscraper — perfect avatars for those of us wallowing in the movie version. it’s the fact of that endless, parallel staring, by the filmmakers and us, that’s the real subject of this art work .
carrey, a jaw - dropping comic trailblazer of his own, grasped all that; that’s why he captured kaufman so profoundly. but it wasn’t until i saw chris smith ’s ticklish and captivating documentary “ jim & andy: the great beyond — featuring a very special, contractually obligated mention of tony clifton, ” that i realized what the two comedic visionaries actually had in common. andy kaufman’s comedy emerged from his pathological role - playing, which was built around his weak sense of identity and his consuming need to create one. it turns out that jim carrey overlapped him in that department quite a bit .
one summer day in 1964, he recalled, when he was out on the streets with a young warhol hanger - on named john palmer, they found themselves looking up at the empire state building. “i said to palmer: ‘this is a perfect warhol movie. why don’t you tell this to andy? ’ and he did. ”
when it was announced in the late ’90s that jim carrey had been chosen to play andy kaufman in a major hollywood biopic, my gut reaction was skepticism. carrey, then at the height of his star power, was a brilliant comedian who had more than proved his acting chops (in “the truman show”), yet both [ … ]
having cleared out the funds set up under randall stevens, andy absconds with over $ 300, 000 of the warden' s money, forwards the cooked account books to the local newspaper, and makes a bee line for mexico. the police come for the warden, who takes the coward' s way out with a bullet to the brain .
that was fine; she’d spent most of the interview revealing that she’s been the victim of bullying, so it would have felt cruel to directly follow that up with a sneery “hey tara, tell me about your dumb hedgehog movie”. but now andy the talking hedgehog is one of the hottest films on the planet, and i’m kicking myself a little .
in “jim & andy, ” we watch carrey submerge himself in the cantankerous, growly clifton mystique. on the days when they’re shooting tony clifton scenes, he refuses to break character, forcing miloš forman to give direction to this stunted, exhausting man who will not listen to a thing he says. carrey, like andy, revels in taking the joke too far. we see priceless footage of the night that tony showed up at the playboy mansion and partied with hugh hefner, who thought that he was in on the joke; he presumed that he was hosting jim carrey. and then, after two hours, into the party walks…jim carrey! hef turns white as a sheet, and tony clifton gets booted out of the party. but at that moment, he lives .
in the film, ex - cop, ex - racer and vietnam vet kowalski, played by barry newman, bets his drug dealer he can deliver a supercharged 1970 dodge challenger to california in 15 hours. the reasons for the wager are unclear, but it triggers 90 minutes worth of screaming police cruisers and an excited, crash - by - crash radio narration by super soul, a blind disc jockey played by cleavon little. kowalski also encounters desert hippies, a rattlesnake wrangler and an alluring, naked blond woman on a motorcycle .
after 20 years at shawshank, andy doesn' t seem like himself. his buddies are worried, and he asks one of them for a length of rope. he seems to be telling red... goodbye. one morning, he doesn' t make it out of his cell for roll call. red fears the worst, but astonishingly, he isn' t in there at all .
you’d expect that after hour 3 or 4 of “empire, ” you’d be ready to slit your wrists, but the movie turns out to be gripping. if great works of art can be thought of as machines for thinking, triggering ideas by the dozen, then “empire” is a rolls - royce: it keeps us thinking about what film is and does, what great buildings are all about and even how and why we look at things. jotting down my thoughts minute by minute, i ended up writing more than 5, 000 words .
the level on which to take
andy ,
a drama of a mentally deficient man, written and directed by richard c. sarafian, which opened at the beekman yesterday, is that of the small, special picture that doesn' t pretend to the large amenities, but aims to tell only a modest story and to do it sensitively and well. on that level, which view full article in timesmachine »
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with his considerable accounting skills, andy begins helping warden norton and the guards with their taxes and other financial issues, and he' s suddenly vaulted into the position of teacher' s pet. he gets shown so much favoritism that the guards end up having his back, even going so far as to, uh, take care of another inmate who doesn' t seem able to take
no
for an answer .
no journalist likes to admit this, but i recently blew a scoop. last month i had to interview tara reid about sharknado 5. i’d planned to ask her about some of her upcoming roles – in films with titles such as party bus to hell, united colors of bennett song and andy the talking hedgehog – but before i could get there, reid cut me off with what sounded like a well - practised wrap - up speech .
carrey’s comedy, too, erupted out of him like an alternate personality, and he grew up riddled with insecurities (like a lot of performers). but once he got famous, something inside him snapped. nice, grinning, friendly canadian jim divided off from dark, weird, troubled, who - am - i? jim. channeling andy kaufman was a catharsis for him, because it put him in touch with his inner split personality .
production: andy warhol films; black and white and eastmancolor, 16mm; running time: 195 minutes, other versions are 210 and 205 minutes. released 15 september 1966; uncut reels were projected side by side; in the general release version, the 1st reel appeared screen right, and a few minutes later, the second appeared screen left. filmed 1966 in the chelsea hotel, new york city; other parts of new york city; and cambridge, massachusetts .
except that he cherished that reaction more than anything, so maybe it was the real him. or maybe there was no real him. in one of the greatest scenes in “man on the moon, ” carrey, as kaufman, as tony clifton gets up on stage and does his unspeakable rendition of “i’ve gotta be me. ” it’s bottom - of - the - barrel sentimental showbiz hooey, but it’s all built around a conundrum: who, exactly, is me? “jim & andy: the great beyond” shows you that the answer is a grand illusion .
on the set of “man on the moon, ” he went full daniel day - lewis, staying in character when the cameras were turned off. this meant, much of the time, that he was sweet, mild, tentative andy and therefore easy to deal with. but it also meant that when the salty - tempered professional wrestler jerry lawler showed up to do his scenes, carrey - as - andy would harass him in the same way that kaufman used to — except that as we see, the mockery was even more scathing. in the ’80s, kaufman and lawler went at each other like a blue red / red state nuclear meltdown, but lawler was in on the joke; off camera, as he explains on the set, kaufman was nice as pie. that’s what he expected from carrey, but instead carrey would push lawler’s buttons, asking him if he’d stolen his bejeweled cape from elvis or saying “once again, proving darwin’s theory…” he kept pushing them, even after he’d crossed the line, provoking lawler to fits of rage. to stay in character, carrey, as kaufman, became a method pest .
the remaining passengers are now waking up—including the captain, inexplicably played by andy garcia (he has zero lines and perhaps six seconds of screen time .) after emerging from their pods, they notice the ship has been transformed into a forest of sorts—as jim and aurora have stayed together and planted vegetation and raised animals and lived happily ever after on the ship because love always wins and that a man can get away with being a creep to a woman as long as he saves that woman’s life at least once. and now they’re dead. stockholm syndrome is real, and it is spectacular .
when it was announced in the late ’90s that jim carrey had been chosen to play andy kaufman in a major hollywood biopic, my gut reaction was skepticism. carrey, then at the height of his star power, was a brilliant comedian who had more than proved his acting chops (in “the truman show”), yet both temperamentally and ethnically he seemed wrong for the part: kaufman was a doughy nerdy jewish space cadet, carrey a hypomanic string - bean wasp. i knew that carrey had the talent to “impersonate” anyone, but could he really merge with kaufman’s antic yet morose there - but - not - quite - there quality ?
smith interviews carrey the same way that he did the dystopian journalist michael ruppert in “collapse” — one direct shot, never varying, a kind of errol morris approach — and it works beautifully, since carrey is a hypnotic talker who opens himself up to the camera. he has a stoned zen view of life that’s easy to mock but is, in fact, quite reality - based, and he’s up front about what an immersive toll the kaufman movie took on him. after it wrapped, r. e. m. tried to get carrey to go back into his kaufman guise to shoot the video for “the great beyond, ” and he refused. once he’d disentangled himself from andy, he couldn’t take going back .
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director richard sarafian was best known for 1971’s car - chase thriller “vanishing point. ” (ap / ap )
mr. sarafian was recovering from a broken back when he contracted pneumonia, family members said .
he directed numerous films and, earlier in his career, tv shows, including episodes of “gunsmoke, ” “the twilight zone” and “batman. ” he also acted, appearing as a hit man named vinnie in the warren beatty satire “bulworth” and as gangster jack dragna in beatty’s “bugsy. ”
in “dr. doolittle 2, ” mr. sarafian did a comic turn as the voice of the god beaver, who ran the forest like a mafia don with buck teeth .
but it was “vanishing point, ” the story of a tough guy named kowalski and his frenzied road trip from denver to san francisco, that proved to be mr. sarafian’s most enduring work .
“i had absolutely no idea that this thing would survive all these years, ” he told the web site urltoken in 2009. “we worked hard in the hot sun and we partied at night. you just hope, like everything, that you blow the audience a few kisses and try to fulfill your vision of what it’s about
freedom, an endless road and let the cards fall where they may. ”
in quentin tarantino’s “death proof, ” the director gave mr. sarafian a “special thanks” credit, a bow to the influence of “vanishing point. ”
in 1997, the scottish rock band primal scream paid tribute to mr. sarafian by naming an album “vanishing point. ”
“it’s always been a favorite of the band, ” leader bobby gillespie explained. “we love the air of paranoia and speed - freak righteousness. ”
“the beauty of ‘vanishing point’ was that i met the challenge to physicalize speed, ” he told turner classic movies .
serving during the korean war as a reporter for an army news service, he was stationed for a time in kansas city, mo. , where he met future hollywood director robert altman .
the two became pals and worked together making industrial films. when altman directed a local play, mr. sarafian acted in it. the director’s sister came bounding backstage after he appeared, her arms opened wide .
they married (and divorced and remarried) and had five children. helen joan altman died two years ago .
mr. sarafian got his start in tv as altman’s assistant but quickly established himself as a director. the 1963 ““living doll” episode for “the twilight zone” was one of his more famous efforts .
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the story of a mentally handicapped middle - aged man and how he, and his elderly parents who must take care of him, manage to get along in new york city .
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influential arab diplomat becomes the target of numerous assassination attempts, when he announces his plan to make peace with israel by letting them join the organization of the petroleum exporting countries (opec) .
reformed drug addict tim brett is holidaying in italy with his aunt. when she is murdered, he tries to investigate, and soon his whole life is out of control .
in this western, a mexican gunslinger is injured trying to save his son and put into prison. when he' s released, he' s got revenge on his mind .
western story about a defiant wife who leaves her husband to take up riding with outlaws .
in the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the feathers and the gutshalls .
award: grand prix inter - clubs du cinéma 1966, france (tied with kaneto shindo' s
onibaba
) .
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director: chris smith with: jim carrey. release date: sep 5, 2017
then, of course, there’s tony clifton. the portly, grunting, stupendously coarse and vulgar lounge lizard, in his pastel tuxedos and sunglasses he never took off, with his lips jutting out, his whole coiffed head bent forward like a broken telescope, was kaufman’s greatest creation. he was an “entertainer” with the personality of a bronx cab driver, an insult comic who hurled insults at people that barely rose to the level of comedy. but that become a loose - cannon id for kaufman, who was liberated by the disguise. there was something so authentic about tony — he was every fourth - rate vegas nightclub host of the ’60s rolled into one seedy ball of non - talent — that he literally took on an identity of his own. kaufman and his partner bob zmuda would take turns putting on the elaborate jowly makeup and playing him, so that tony was more than a walking bad joke about a guy who told bad jokes. he simply…existed. (which just heightened the joke. )
production: a vice documentary films production. producers: spike jonze, danny gabai, brendan fitzgerald, chris smith. executive producers: eddy moretti, shane smith, michael kronish, jim czarnecki, nicole montez, tony clifton .
crew: director: chris smith. camera (color, widescreen): brantley gutierrez. editor: barry poltermann .
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serkis’ directorial debut “ breathe, ” which will screen in east hampton as the sunday centerpiece of the festival, stars andrew garfield and clarie foy in a story about a man and his wife who defy the medical establishment in order to live life to the fullest after garfield’s character contracts polio at age 28. serkis is on tap to attend the festival .
also joining hiff’s 25th anniversary lineup is “lbj, ” starring woody harrelson as the titular president and directed by rob reiner, who will participate in the festival’s “a conversation with…” series of live talks. ai weiwei’s immigrant documentary “human flow, ” ruben ostlund’s palme d’or winner “the square” and atsuko hirayanagi’s dramedy “oh lucy! ” are also among the films on tap .
collette will attend the festival in support of iraq war drama “the yellow birds, ” and cumming will be there with “after louise, ” a drama about a new york artist who survives the city’s aids epidemic .
as previously announced, the 2017 hamptons fest will honor julie andrews in an event that includes a screening of “victor / victoria. ” also presented that weekend is variety’s 10 actors to watch, which this year includes timothee chalamet, daveed diggs and danielle macdonald, among others .
sharknado 5’s tara reid: ‘it can get abusive. there’s a lot of bullying’
a parent’s worst nightmare formed my way into the machinations of be your own hollywood. some light googling revealed both a trailer, introduced by footage of dean cain talking into his phone, and an indiegogo page that successfully funded its $ 10, 000 target, possibly because it offered the role of “dean cain’s wife” as a reward for donations .
according to imdb, reisig is also a boxer, a member of the libertarian party and he once scored 150 on an iq test. he has not responded to requests for an interview .
aside from puppies and dean cain, the be your own hollywood films all have one thing in common; they’re cheap genre movies churned out specifically to sell to cable channels and streaming services. they won’t win any awards, but they presumably make money and form reliable work for a number of actors who might otherwise struggle. they’re also produced in a very modern way – financed through crowdfunding, promoted through social media – that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. reisig saw an opening and went for it, and you can’t deny him that .
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it turns out leonardo dicaprio’s jack dawson didn’t have to die in the atlantic after all. we list some other films that take suspension of disbelief a plot point too far
titanic... kate winslet has revealed there was some room on the lifeboat. photograph: allstar picture library
admitted this week that in the climactic scene, her co - star, leonardo dicaprio, could have fitted on that raft after all, meaning his character jack dawson shivered to death in the atlantic unnecessarily. swizz. so in a spirit of cinematic truth - telling, here are 10 more movie plot holes we’d like closure on please…
too busy flirting... humphrey bogart and lauren bacall in the big sleep. photograph: courtesy everett collection / rex
who actually dunnit? amid all the double - crossing and flirty fast - talking of the bogart ’n’ bacall noir, we never learn who killed the chauffeur owen taylor. during filming, director howard hawks wired author raymond chandler, who replied: “damned if i know. ”
a key premise of the pixar action comedy is that square - jawed space ranger buzz lightyear doesn’t believe he’s a toy. so how come he still freezes like the others when a human enters the room ?
time - travelling teen marty mcfly (michael j fox) interferes in the events of 1955 to change his family’s future. so why don’t his parents george and lorraine remember “ calvin klein ”, who matchmade them and inspired george’s sci - fi career? and who also looks exactly like their son ?
a beautiful moment in tim burton’s twisted fairytale comes when heartbroken edward (johnny depp) creates spectacular ice sculptures in the attic. where did he get the huge blocks of ice ?
orson welles as charles foster kane in citizen kane. photograph: sportsphoto ltd / allstar
“ rosebud. ” the mysterious final utterance of newspaper tycoon charles foster kane (orson welles) sparks a search for its meaning. except kane died alone. so who heard his dying words ?
in the heist flick that hailed quentin tarantino ’s arrival, a mexican standoff sees joe cabot’s gun aimed at mr orange, mr white’s gun aimed at joe and nice guy eddie’s gun aimed at mr white. bang, bang, bang and all fall down. so who shot nice guy eddie ?
in x - men: the last stand (2006), phoenix aka jean grey is tearing reality apart. skin rips from wolverine’s body but his trousers remain intact. see also hulk, who bursts out of everything except his slacks. anyone would think comic books were coy about super - penises .
actor' s failed rap star, named conner4real, who attempts to reform his old cheesy pop boy band .
the musical group are renowned for their comedy songs
like a boss
,
i just had sex
and
d * ck in a box ,
the latter of which featured justin timberlake .
popstar: never stop never stopping will also star sarah silverman, imogen poots and the inbetweeners actor james buckley who' ll play sponge, a member of connor4real' s entourage .
he could even be tough on his audiences, especially with his films: he gave fans almost 45 minutes of a painter eating a mushroom, 76 minutes of an actor shaking his rear, more than five hours of a boyfriend sleeping and, to top it all, “empire” — eight hours straight of the empire state building, doing nothing .
on the screening’s first weekend, i showed up prepared: coconut water, sandwiches, an apple and some old christmas cookies — as well as a caffeine - spiked energy drink. only that last item was never called for .
there were dumb moments (“back from 2 min. bathroom break. what did i miss? ! ”) and ones that felt smart at the time (“the e. s. b. used to be lit as a monument, in honor of its presence and importance as a building. now, covered in leds, it has become like a times square mega - screen, advertising itself, and n. y. c. ”) but what’s surprising is that, for all its vast length, “empire” doesn’t leave you with that many blank moments .
warhol arranged access to an office on the 41st floor of the time & life building, at 50th street and avenue of the americas. he, mr. mekas and mr. palmer, along with a few others, found themselves in a darkened room, with a rented 16 - millimeter arriflex camera pointing at the world’s tallest building, 16 blocks south .
the shoot lasted about six and a half hours, but warhol always intended his movie — silent, black and white, and filmed at the standard 24 frames a second — to be screened at about three - quarters speed. “he wanted that touch of unreality, to take it out of naturalism, ” mr. mekas said .
at fuentes, the screening, at 18 frames a second, takes just over seven hours, while a 1960s projector would have slowed it to 16 frames a second, taking eight hours. warhol, the working - class boy from pittsburgh, made a movie that asks us to sit for the length of a worker’s shift .
( the longest anyone else sat with me in the gallery screening was seven minutes. you understand as much from viewing such a tiny segment of “empire” as you would from viewing just a postage - stamp patch on the mona lisa. )
when you’re paying attention to more or less nothing, small details start to loom. turns out you can tell the time in the movie by the beacon on top of the met life tower, which flashes with each hour like a tolling church bell. and it seems amazing that a work that’s all about passing time should include such a perfect means of marking it .
warhol, mr. campbell’s soup, was always a master of important triviality, and he gets us to care more about little things, like a flash bulb’s firing from the empire state’s summit, or its floodlights turning on and off at dusk and 2 a. m. , than the great structure itself. in its dependable presence, hour after hour, it ends up having the cozy appeal of a house cat asleep beside us .
“empire” is shown starting at 11 a. m. wednesday through sunday through jan. 26 at the james fuentes gallery, 55 delancey street, between allen and eldridge streets, lower east side; 212 - 577 - 1201, jamesfuentes. com .
cast :
the pope ondine story
—ondine (pope); angelina davis (pepper); ingrid superstar; albert rené ricard; mary might; international velvet; ronna .
the duchess
—brigid polk .
the john
— ed hood (ed); patrick flemming (patrick); mario montez (transvestite); angelina
pepper
davis; international velvet; mary might; gerard malanga; albert rené ricard; ingrid superstar .
hanoi hanna (queen of china )
—mary might (hanoi hanna); international velvet; ingrid superstar; angelina
pepper
davis .
the gerard malanga story
—marie menken (mother); gerard malanga (son); mary might (girlfriend) .
the trip
and
their town (toby short )
—eric emerson .
afternoon
—edie sedgwick (edie); ondine; arthur loeb; donald lyons; dorothy dean .
the closet
— nico; randy borscheidt .
reel 1
—eric emerson; ari.
andy is a 1965 dramatic film starring norman alden and written and directed by richard c. sarafian . it was sarafian 's first directing credit for a feature film . 
andy is a 1965 dramatic film starring norman alden and written and directed by richard c. sarafian. it was sarafian's first directing credit for a feature film.
andy is a 1965 dramatic film starring norman alden and written and directed by richard c. sarafian. it was sarafian's first directing credit for a feature film.