Henry Fool the sequel?
According to
this interview with actor James Urbaniak, filmmaker Hal Hartley may be shooting a sequel to his much loved HENRY FOOL this coming fall in Berlin! When the actor was asked about upcoming projects, he responded:
Well I've done a few films with Hal Hartley and he's doing a sequel to Henry Fool, which is this movie
we've done a few years ago. It looks like we're probably going to shoot that in
the fall in Berlin.
Perhaps the sequel can lay to rest whether Henry was running away or to the plane. (Although, this is revealed in the screenplay.)
We can only hope here at FilmLight.
Why on earth would Martin Scorsese be in North Carolina?
Scorsese Says Films Rooted in Realism A lovely article about Full Frame Documentary film festival in Durahm, NC last weekend, and a bit about Scorsese himself. But when I got to this:
Scorsese said he plans to make another documentary — a film about Bob Dylan that explores the question of whether folk music can be electrified and commercialized.
In two weeks, he will begin production on his next feature movie, "The Departed," starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a Boston police officer who infiltrates Irish-American gangs.
"This is the first present-day film I've made in 20 years," Scorsese said. I had to say, what about
Bringing Out the Dead, made only 16 years ago! This must be what fangirl shame feels like.
The International Film Festival is coming! The International Film
I'm already daydreaming and doodling on my program for the
San Francisco International Film Festival 2005. This year's special events are good and special (Brad Bird delivers the State of Cinema address, Todd Solondz discusses screenwriting and getting unlikeable films produced, Adam Curtis gets an award), though nothing comes close to beating last year's
An
Evening with Milos Forman, but really... what could?
Hair on the big screen plus chatting it up with Milos Forman and Treat Williams, I get a little misty just thinking about it.
And then there's the films! My to do list includes: Francois Ozon's
5x2, Costa-Gavras'
The
Ax,
Cinévardaphoto, Miranda July's
Me
and You and Everyone We Know, Alison Murray's
Mouth
to Mouth, Marilyn Agrelo 's
Mad Hot Ballroom, Adam Curtis's
Power of Nightmares, Raymond Depardon 's
Profiles of Farmers, and Erin McEnery's
Search for the Captain.
I'm told I should be interested in Lúcia Murat's Almost Brothers, Sundance favorite Murderball, and the Alloy Orchestra performing a new score to Hitchcock's Blackmail.
I have a passing interest in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (isn't this already in a theatrical release?), Wernor Herzog's White
Diamond and Chronicas because I saw John Leguizamo plugging it on the Daily Show and he seemed very sweet and earnest about it.
I'll be staying far away from the Clare Denis's The Intruder and Takashi Miike's Izo, because I am sqeamish!
And finally, I am just glad November got a distributor, though I think I will wait until it gets a regular theatrical release.
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Sorry for the delay in updates, Film Light has spent the last month watching three season's worth of
Alias. And as soon as the xbox game arrives I can't promise the same thing won't happen again.
After reading Salon's
The Other Peterson Trial I have to say I am eagerly awaiting
The Staircase to be released on dvd. Does anyone actually have
the Sundance channel?
Also, I am generally a pretty big sucker for the big-budget horror-cheese, but I am bracing for a great deal of disappointment in the soon to be released
Amityville Horror. The book was corny but effective and if film-makers stopped trying to sex it up it would be brilliant.
Unsolicited Confession: I put
Shark Tale on my Netflix queue only because I'm so charmed by
Christina Aguilera's rendition of "Car Wash". How bad could it be if
Robert DeNiro Martin Scorsese is in it?
Wine and Film, these are a few of my favorite things...
This weekend was the lovely but unattainable
Sonoma Valley Film Festival where over the course of 5 days dozens of indie, foreign, documentary, and student films were screened. Film Light favorites included:
Mondovino - Jonathan Nossiter's new documentary about wine-making in a geo-political context. Nossiter was recently
iviewed by FilmMaker magazine.
Four-eyed Monster - a bizarre, low-budget comedy about online dating in a post-post-modern, meta-relationship NYC.
Tennis, Anyone? - Hyphenate extradanaire Donal Logue wrote, directed, and starred in this film about B-list actors trying to get back into the spotlight via celebrity charity tennis circuit.
On the Outs - three stories about young girls who each wind up in a youth detention center in New Jersey.
Return to Sender - a prison love story starring Tim Daly and Lifetime-for-Women-favorite Connie Nielson. Delicious.
Z Channel: a Magnificent Obsession - Xan Cassavetes' short doc about a local cable station in Los Angeles in the late 70's that was the first (and possibly the last) to show unedited films by Bertolucci, Leone, Peckinpah, etc. inspiring a generation of young LA film-makers. Interviews include: Robert Altman, Jacqueline Bisset, Alexander Payne, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Verhoeven, James Woods.
Beauty Academy of Kabul - documentary about aspiring hairdressers in Afghanistan. Part of
indiewire's Undiscovered Gems seriesSpecial tribute paid to Saul Zaentz, James Woods, Joe Pantoliano, Aidan Quinn, Jon Favreau.
