tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733753975031345722024-02-19T03:23:24.014-08:00News From the Vitagraph Films VaultVitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-88546186246173215952011-03-12T06:42:00.000-08:002011-03-12T06:42:09.440-08:00Even the Rain / Tambien La Lluvia In Theatres Now - Events - REDeye On Film International<a href="http://www.redeyeonfilminternational.com/events/profile/14">Even the Rain / Tambien La Lluvia In Theatres Now - Events - REDeye On Film International</a>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-54730116512463008122011-02-26T15:30:00.000-08:002011-02-26T15:50:50.471-08:00Help EVEN THE RAIN to Get to More Theatres: Go This Weekend<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagNin59xbEcCFVss8g81OPvb9O3tuaR4LNV6hjJZD3h_yvwykXpXb3B2mdoJUBwbKfD298kcRh0BRiX4WTwhS3nX4VO4IrMyiUsHdfENNBceoWmUXZ-hQ-oGZ6Bmtfcb57DEwbxIuFLQ/s1600/even_the_SNOrain_poster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagNin59xbEcCFVss8g81OPvb9O3tuaR4LNV6hjJZD3h_yvwykXpXb3B2mdoJUBwbKfD298kcRh0BRiX4WTwhS3nX4VO4IrMyiUsHdfENNBceoWmUXZ-hQ-oGZ6Bmtfcb57DEwbxIuFLQ/s320/even_the_SNOrain_poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578147641883267426" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">We are making a big push today to get word out about Even the Rain/Tambien La Lluvia across the country - and we need your help. If people don't see it this weekend we may not be able to stay in theatres or get new ones.<br /><br />People are asking how can I see it in Arizona, Texas, Florida. The answer is that you who have seen it need to tell friends in <a href="http://www.eventherainmovie.com/theatres_evtr.html">cities where the film is open</a>, TO GO THIS WEEKEND!<br /><br />If you've seen the film please tell friends, share links, share the event on Facebook, e-mail friends, write a review on<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1422032/"> </a></span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1422032/">imdb.com</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810124198/info">yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.fandango.com/">fandango.com</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> or any site in your city! </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />You can also get an <a href="http://www.eventherainmovie.com/eblasts/3_release_evenrain/03_evenrain_share.html">e-flyer</a> for the film off of our website to forward to friends.<br /><br />Here is a clip from <a href="http://www.eventherainmovie.com">Even the Rain</a>. In the film within a film, Sebastian, played by Gael Garcia Bernal, is holding an open casting call to find extras for the film. Because they are shooting cheaply in Bolivia they are using Quechua indigenous people instead of the Taino people of the Caribbean that Columbus encountered in real life. This is one of the ironies that screenwriter Paul Laverty (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Bread and Roses) infuses into the script which juxtaposes the abuses of the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago with the exploitation that continues today.</span><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QaMhpewNKM0?hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QaMhpewNKM0?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-31668470573946435452011-02-24T20:29:00.000-08:002011-02-24T20:35:26.872-08:00Director Iciar Bollain Chats with Movie City News About Making 'Even the Rain'<iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oliHeIto8PM" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="640"></iframe>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-21345182470319210182011-02-21T23:29:00.000-08:002011-02-22T00:05:09.073-08:00"The People’s Alternative Academy Awards: 2010 PROGIE AWARDS FOR BEST PROGRESSIVE FILMS & ARTISTS<span style="font-family:arial;">2010 PROGIE AWARDS FOR BEST PROGRESSIVE FILMS & ARTISTS</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">The Awards Honor Outstanding Films and Artists of Conscience and Consciousness</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Los Angeles, Feb. 21, 2011 – A Spanish film about a peoples power uprising in Bolivia has swept the James Agee Cinema Circle’s fourth annual “Progie” Awards for Best Progressive Films and Filmmakers of 2010. Upon receiving word Even The Rain screenwriter Paul Laverty declared: “I like the sound of best Anti-Fascist film very much!! I'll take that to the grave with pride… I must tell all our compañeros in Cochabamba too... sure they will feel honored.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;">The <span style="font-weight: bold;">James Agee Cinema Circle </span>is a new international, independent umbrella group of lefty film critics, reviewers, scholars and historians dedicated to raising public awareness about films dealing with political, social and cultural issues such as: Human rights, workers’ struggles, women’s rights, environmentalism, ethnic rights, free speech, gay rights, civil liberties, immigrant rights, people’s activism and peace. The JACC annually presents The Progies to the year’s Best Progressive studio features, indies, documentaries and artists. The Progies are the “un-Oscar”, the “people’s alternative Academy Awards,” honoring movies and talents of conscience and consciousness.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;">2010’s Progie Award winners reflect the protest and strike wave stretching from Tunisia to Wisconsin, including: <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Even The Rain’s 4 Progies</span> include The Trumbo for Best Progressive Picture; Naomi Watts won the Karen Morley Best Progressive Actress Progie for Fair Game; the Matt Damon Iraq War drama The Green Zone won the Renoir for Best Anti-War Progie; The Wall Street expose Inside Job won the Dziga for Best Progressive Documentary Progie; the British feminist strike drama Made In Dagenham earned the Our Daily Bread Progie for best progressive working class portrayal; Jean-Luc Godard won the Sergei Progie for Best Progressive Lifetime Achievement, while his latest work Film Socialisme received the Langlois Progie for Best Progressive Film Deserving U.S. Theatrical Release. The Fighter’s Mark Wahlberg and Casino Jack’s Kevin Spacey tied in the Garfield Best Progressive Actor category.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Below is a complete list of all of the 2010 Progies winners, followed by the nominees in every category. Each Progie is awarded in a category named after a great cinema artist or film that made a contribution to movies that inspire, enlighten and entertain audiences. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Rampell,</span> author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Progressive Hollywood, A People’s Film History of the United States</span>, and other members of the James Agee Cinema Circle are available for comment and interviews with the press.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE TRUMBO:</span> The Progie Award for<span style="font-weight: bold;"> BEST PROGRESSIVE PICTURE</span> is named after Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a member of the Hollywood Ten, who was imprisoned for his beliefs and refusing to inform. Trumbo helped break the Blacklist when he received screen credit for “Spartacus” and “Exodus” in 1960.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner:</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Even The Rain </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Other nominees:</span><br />Social Network, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Casino Jack, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Made In Dagenham</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE GARFIELD</span>: The Progie Award for <span style="font-weight: bold;">BEST ACTOR</span> in a progressive picture is named after John Garfield, who rose from the proletarian theatre to star in progressive pictures such as “Gentleman's Agreement” and “Force of Evil,” only to run afoul of the Hollywood Blacklist.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winners: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter and Kevin Spacey, Casino Jack</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Other nominees:</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">James Franco, Howl, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">KAREN MORLEY AWARD:</span> The Progie Award for <span style="font-weight: bold;">BEST ACTRESS</span> in a film portraying women in a progressive picture is named for Karen Morley, co-star of 1932’s “Scarface” and 1934’s “Our Daily Bread.” Morley was driven out of Hollywood in the 1930s for her leftist views, but maintained her militant political activism for the rest of her life, running for New York’s Lieutenant Governor on the American Labor Party ticket in 1954. She passed away in 2003, unrepentant to the end, at the age of 93.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Naomi Watts, Fair Game </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Other nominees: Sally Hawkins, Made In Dagenham</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE RENOIR: </span>The Progie Award for<span style="font-weight: bold;"> BEST ANTI-WAR FILM</span> is named after the great French filmmaker Jean Renoir, who directed the 1937 anti-militarism masterpiece “Grand Illusion.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">The Green Zone </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Other nominees: Route Irish</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(scripted by Paul Laverty)</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Miral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE GILLO: </span>The Progie Award for <span style="font-weight: bold;">BEST PROGRESSIVE FOREIGN FILM</span> is named after the Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, who lensed the 1960s classics “The Battle of Algiers” and “Burn!”</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Even The Rain</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">other nominees: Tears Of Gaza</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE DZIGA:</span> The Progie Award for <span style="font-weight: bold;">BEST PROGRESSIVE DOCUMENTARY</span> is named after the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, who directed 1920s nonfiction films such as the “Kino Pravda” (“Film Truth”) series and “The Man With the Movie Camera.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"> Inside Job</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Other nominees:</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Client 9</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">South Of The Border</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OUR DAILY BREAD AWARD: </span>The Progie Award for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">MOST POSITIVE AND INSPIRING WORKING CLASS SCREEN IMAGE</span> is named after King Vidor’s 1934 classic about an American collective farm, which starred Karen Morley and was produced by Charlie Chaplin.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Made In Dagenham</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Other Nominees:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Even The Rain</span></span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">The Fighter</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE ROBESON: The Progie Award for the BEST PORTRAYAL OF PEOPLE OF COLOR</span> that shatters cinema stereotypes, in light of their historically demeaning depictions onscreen. It is named after courageous performing legend, Paul Robeson, who starred in 1936’s “Song of Freedom” and 1940’s “The Proud Valley,” and narrated 1942’s “Native Land.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner:</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Even The Rain</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Other nominees: Night Catches Us</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Miral</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Guy And Madeline On A Park Bench, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Frankie & Alice</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE SERGEI: The Progie Award for LIFETIME PROGRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENT ON- OR OFFSCREEN</span> is named after Sergei Eisenstein, the Soviet director of masterpieces such as “Potemkin” and “10 Days That Shook the World.”</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Jean-Luc Godard</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Other nominees: Sean Penn</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Mike Leigh</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Ed Asner</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE BUNUEL: The Progie Award for the MOST SLYLY SUBVERSIVE SATIRICAL CINEMATIC FILM </span>in terms of form, style and content is named after Luis Bunuel, the Spanish surrealist who directed 1929’s “The Andalusian Dog,” 1967’s “Belle de Jour” and 1972’s “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">The Social Network</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Other nominees: Enter the Void</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Hitler in Hollywood</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE PASOLINI: The Progie Award for BEST PRO-GAY RIGHTS</span> film is named after Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who directed 1964's “The Gospel According to St. Matthew” and “The Decameron” and “The Canterbury Tales” in the 1970s.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">The Kids Are Alright</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Other nominees: </span>I Love You Philip Morris</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE LAWSON: The Progie Award for BEST ANTI-FASCIST FILM</span> is named after John Howard Lawson, screenwriter of 1938’s anti-Franco “Blockade” and the 1940s anti-nazi films “Four Sons,” “Action in the North Atlantic,” “Sahara” and “Counter-Attack,” and one of the Hollywood Ten.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Winner: Even The Rain</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Other nominees: </span>The King’s Speech</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Casino Jack</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">The Last Circus</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE LANGLOIS: For BEST PROGRESSIVE PICTURE DESERVING THEATRICAL RELEASE IN THE US </span>and distribution in other countries and platforms is named after film archivist Henri Langlois, co-founder of Paris’ Cinémathèque. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winner: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Film Socialisme</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Amigo</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Vlast</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Cleveland Versus Wall Street</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">Nostalgia For The Light</span>, <span style="font-family:arial;">The Housemaid</span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-69776146777355022292011-02-20T17:20:00.000-08:002011-02-22T03:27:59.074-08:00'Even the Rain' (Tambien La Lluvia) Wins Panorama Audience Award at Berlin Film Festival<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">Berlin, February 19, 2011</p><p face="arial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The day after 'Even the Rain' opened in the United States, the film was honored with the Berlin Film Festival Panorama section Audience Award. On behalf of the filmmakers, of 'Even the Rain' screenwriter Paul Laverty issued this statement upon learning that the film <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/spains-rain-wins-berlin-fests-139454">won the Audience Award</a> in Berlin: </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: arial;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">IT IS A GREAT HONOUR TO RECEI</span><span style="font-size:100%;">VE THIS PRIZE FROM THE PUBLIC AND WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THEM ALL FOR THEIR SUPPORT.<span> </span>WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE FESTIVAL FOR THE </span><span style="font-size:100%;">THEIR <span> </span>HO</span><span style="font-size:100%;">SPITALITY AND EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND KIN</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">DNESS TO US.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">ABOVE ALL WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE PEOPLE OF COCHABAMBA IN BOLIVIA WHO INSPIRED THE STORY.<span> </span>MANY OF THEM FACED TEN </span><span style="font-size:100%;">YEARS AGO IN THE WATER WARS WHAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS NOW FACE IN TH</span><span style="font-size:100%;">E MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA.<span> </span>ORDINARY CITIZENS SICKENED BY CORRUPTION AND POVERTY NOW RISK LIFE AND LIMB FOR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.<span> </span>WE SALUTE THEIR COURAGE AND THE HOPE THEY</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> GIVE US.<br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">HOWARD ZINN,<span> </span>THE HISTORIAIN TO WHOM THIS FILM IS DEDICATED, ONCE SAID, "NOT TO BELIEVE IN THE POSSIBILITY OF DRAMATIC CHANGE IS TO FORGET THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED, NOT ENOUGH OF COURSE, BUT ENOUGH TO SHOW WHAT IS POSSIBLE. WE HAVE BEEN SURPRISED BEFORE IN HISTORY.<span> </span>INDEED, WE CAN DO THE SURPRISING."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THANK YOU,</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">PAUL LAVERTY - WRITER</span></p><p face="arial" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">ICIAR BOLLAIN - DIRECTOR</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">JUAN GORDON - PRODUCER</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.eventherainmovie.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGDIlh6SGwhyphenhyphenkwYxp27EMCabqx5ZYxlY143c_wcq0KocYOunL5_us-jpKXTjjd1EzQExFcn2ZgqE8KFs3CIKAUtehQk7yZuEMiHosO7YyAareauQtiC6E9Yg9J5EUj9hpjyixcff68k2k/s320/ETR_300x250_Spanish.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575948104424581218" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family: arial;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-weight: bold;font-family:Verdana,Geneva;"><span style="font-size:100%;">About the Film:</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family: arial;">A Spanish film crew arrives in Bolivia to make a film about Columbus in the New World. Idealistic director Sebastian (Gael García Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries) wants to denounce the injustices of the past, focusing on exploitation of the indigenous people. Practical producer Costa (Luis Tosar, Cell 211), working on a tight budget, has chosen Bolivia, one of Latin America's poorest countries, to stand in for Santo Domingo because extras will work for only $2 a day.<br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family: arial;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family: arial;">After an open casting call almost degenerates into a riot, Sebastian hires outspoken Daniel (Juan Carlos Aduviri) to play the rebel Indian leader. But when the locals begin demonstrations against a multinational's plans to privatize water-even the rain-Daniel is in the thick of them, endangering the film's shooting schedule.<br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family: arial;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The thought-provoking screenplay by frequent Ken Loach collaborator <span style="font-size:100%;">Paul L</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">averty (The Wind That Shakes the Barley) cunningly parallels the Spanish conquest of the Americas with the modern spread of capitalism. This fascinating mixture of past and present, fiction and fact, features spectacular scenes of the period film within a film. Directed by Icíar Bollaín (Take My Eyes).</span></span><br /></p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">How did the Morena Films crew work with the Bolivian community in Cochabamba?<br />Producer Juan Gordon and director Iciar Bollain explain in this </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/VitagraphFilms#p/a/u/1/qGWJ6rpD0_c">video</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">View the trailer for </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/eventherain/">Even the Rain</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1620483.php/Berlin-Film-Festival-starts-rolling-out-prizes-1st-Lead">Read more</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> about the award</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:arial;" >Find Even the Rain in a </span><a style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://eventherainmovie.com/theatres_evtr.html">theatre</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:arial;" > near you.</span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-13978518268112596052011-01-11T04:08:00.000-08:002011-01-11T04:41:07.364-08:0013 Nominations for TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA: Goya Award Nominations Announced Today<span style="font-family:arial;">The Goya Award (Spain's equivalent of the Oscar) nominations were announced today and 'Tambien La Lluvia" (Even the Rain) scored 13 nominations including: </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Best Music<br />Best Film<br />Best Direction (Iciar Bollain pictured below)<br />Best Original Screenplay<br />Best Direction of Production<br />Best Sound</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Best Special Effects<br />Best Supporting Actor (Karra Elejalde)</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Best New Actor (Carlos Aduviri)<br />Best Lead Actor (Luis Tosar pictured below)<br />Best Makeup and Hair<br />Best Costumes<br />Best Editing<br /><br />The photo of Carlos Aduviri as 'Hatuey,' an </span><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGAPrSoL5bQLu0PQuyGGQVqk-a2minSCS7t_PH1uF0R81osTVolk49OB8BgUSIR3IKBBuvRpI4MX1mp3dWHZwWsdvGt-W0UmqpoewP2Lj5bqBxHXMDUobgukLmHkQfyXkd5rfASoiC5A/s1600/Even_the_Rain_Carlos_Aduviri-as-Hatuey.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGAPrSoL5bQLu0PQuyGGQVqk-a2minSCS7t_PH1uF0R81osTVolk49OB8BgUSIR3IKBBuvRpI4MX1mp3dWHZwWsdvGt-W0UmqpoewP2Lj5bqBxHXMDUobgukLmHkQfyXkd5rfASoiC5A/s320/Even_the_Rain_Carlos_Aduviri-as-Hatuey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560899766739895122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">indigenous Bolvian cast as a 15th century native, shows off some of the hair, make up and costuming that made the historical epic in the film within a film, seem as real as the depictions of </span><span style="font-family:arial;">native characters in a film like Apocalypto or The New World.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In the film, Carlos Aduviri plays a dual role. His character Daniel, gets a role in a film that is shooting in Cochabamba, Bolvia in the year 2000 when the government sold off the rights to the water to multinational companies that then tried to sell water back to the people at excessive fees. The Daniel character takes an active role in the riots that ensue, fighting for water for his people. In real life, Daniel is not an actor. He is a carpenter, who went to film school and now works in a film school and makes short films. His casting was very similar to the way it is depicted in the film (an open call for extras). The part was written for a very big, strong-looking warrior of a man. Carlos was cast against type for his intensity. Now he is nominated for a Goya Award for his work in the film.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Director Iciar Bollain serves as</span><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZkIX6t12nmvizX7xhsavYR0qdyIDL-wfoK__O9eauiNNzs5wPoanPCqe7ue8SlUxEy9F8AfGXzO7LG2SC6Bq14Nat2H08hjwaU32_0B1lhkGdxyN4lY1zsIUv3v_PfJ0IyivZMm0EoqE/s1600/Even_the_Rain_LuisTosar%2528actor%2529IciarBollain%2528Dir%2529.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZkIX6t12nmvizX7xhsavYR0qdyIDL-wfoK__O9eauiNNzs5wPoanPCqe7ue8SlUxEy9F8AfGXzO7LG2SC6Bq14Nat2H08hjwaU32_0B1lhkGdxyN4lY1zsIUv3v_PfJ0IyivZMm0EoqE/s320/Even_the_Rain_LuisTosar%2528actor%2529IciarBollain%2528Dir%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560905406605946898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> Vice President of the Spanish Academy for the Motion Picture Industry. 'Tambien La Lluvia" is her fifth film. Her film is also the official Oscar submission from Spain and is competing for one of the five Best Foreign-Language film nominations with 60 other films. The nominees will be announced on January 25, 2011. If she is nominated, Bollain will be the first female director from Spain to be honored in this way. Bollain became attached to the film to direct after Alejandro Innaritu, who started to develop the project, departed to make BIUTIFUL. Now, BIUTIFUL, the Mexican Oscar submission starring popular Spanish actor Javier Bardem is up against Spain's TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA, which stars Mexico's biggest actor, Gael Garcia Bernal. Go figure!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Other multiple nominees at the Goyas are:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">BALADA TRISTE DE TROMPETA with 15 nominations, directed by Alex de la Iglesias, PA NEGRE with 14 nominations and BURIED with 10 nominations.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Production Company Morena Films did well last year at the Goyas with CELDA 211 also starring Luis Tosar.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Tambien La Lluvia will be released in the United States on February 18, 2011 by Vitagraph Films.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Read more about Tambien La Lluvia and the water riots on </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tambien-La-Lluvia-Even-the-Rain-Movie-USA/167316729952346">Facebook</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> or our </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.vitagraphfilms.com/">website</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-13845292210424068272010-10-12T11:09:00.000-07:002010-10-12T11:18:48.373-07:00Vitagraph Films Acquires All North American Rights for Official Spanish Oscar Submission, TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA (EVEN THE RAIN) From Wild Bunch<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Fb5sx4H_iv9I_RGW-wOzCv0AvlXwglPuRHzdgLhRCWeeZV-aQ-owC43Zfv_WdkgCsAAXj9G5k5wnDgfjyYTlumQGYANi2rb7LXPW3S_9FMnfuJbb-iZgcLJpQgn9art9tqNPRHTFAWg/s1600/EventheRain.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Fb5sx4H_iv9I_RGW-wOzCv0AvlXwglPuRHzdgLhRCWeeZV-aQ-owC43Zfv_WdkgCsAAXj9G5k5wnDgfjyYTlumQGYANi2rb7LXPW3S_9FMnfuJbb-iZgcLJpQgn9art9tqNPRHTFAWg/s320/EventheRain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527223861067497442" border="0" /></a><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Columbus Day, October 12, 2010 – Vitagraph Films, LLC partners David Shultz and Margot Gerber announced today that they acquired all North American rights for Spain’s official entry for ‘Best Foreign Language Film” for the 2011 Oscars, TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA (EVEN THE RAIN) from Wild Bunch, on behalf of producer Juan Gordon’s Morena Films. Ironically the deal was finalized in time to announce the acquisition on Columbus Day, as the “film-within-a-film” in TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA chronicles some of gold-seeking Chris</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" >topher Columbus’ exploits with the indigenous people he encountered in the Americas, circa 1492.</span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" >An official selection of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA is directed by Icíar Bollaín from a screenplay by Paul Laverty (ROUTE IRISH), a frequent Ken Loach collaborator. The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Tosar and Carlos Aduviri.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" >The deal was negotiated on Vitagraph’s behalf by European agent, Guy Amon of the Paris-based Leisure and Multimedia Consulting. <span style=""> </span>LMC has been representing films in France sin</span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" >ce the early 1980s and works with Munich based TMG/CONCORDE FILM ‘s Dr. Herbert Kloiber and Markus Zimmer on film and television acquisitions for German speaking territories and sales in the French market of TMG's productions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" >TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA sets up an intriguing dialogue about Spanish imperialism through incidents taking place some 500 years apart, while examining the personal belief systems of the members of a film crew headed by director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his producer Costa (Luis Tosar) who arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about the conquest of Latin America. Set in February and March of 2000 when real-life protests against the privatization of water rocked the nation, the film reflexively blurs the line between fiction and reality in w</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi56agYHOnB47r0OKYzmE-rzhBsRuGsE7VW1zrYD41t_3eGoFRDt8RW7_EDlWnrhaYEd2TN0gTx1uJnQ_4YBaK6CfUo0Dndhjli9K1qJJL7xl8pdJTONKV0UjOz8d8oI8m4IpAmIfE9YMs/s1600/tambienluvia_Indian.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi56agYHOnB47r0OKYzmE-rzhBsRuGsE7VW1zrYD41t_3eGoFRDt8RW7_EDlWnrhaYEd2TN0gTx1uJnQ_4YBaK6CfUo0Dndhjli9K1qJJL7xl8pdJTONKV0UjOz8d8oI8m4IpAmIfE9YMs/s320/tambienluvia_Indian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527224289484971842" border="0" /></a><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" >hat <u>Variety</u> calls "a powerful, richly layered indictment of the plight of Latin America's dispossessed." Carlos Aduviri is dynamic as a local who is cast as a 15<sup>th</sup> century native in the film, but when the make-up and loin cloth come off, he sails into action protesting his community’s <span style=""> </span>deprivation of water at the hands of the government. Meanwhile, Gael Garcia Bernal’s Idealist film director is as relentless as Werner Herzog infamously was in making FITZCARALDO, pushing ahead against all odds, ignoring the prevailing danger about to disrupt at any moment. Despite the devastation emerging around him, Sebastian seems unable to engage with any emotion over than a dogmatic desire to get his film done. And of course, the film also recalls themes in Herzog’s AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD and the film-within-a-film scenes are as brutal as any in APOCALYPTO.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Founded in 1999, the Los Angeles based Vitagraph Films, LLC is a self contained theatrical and home optical, television distribution entity. Vitagraph currently has the documentary AHEAD OF TIME: The Remarkable Life Story of Ruth Gruber (directed by Bob Richman) in theatres and will open TODAY’s SPECIAL on November 19<sup>th</sup>. <span style=""> </span>In 2009, Vitagraph Films distributed VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR, a documentary on the Italian haute couture fashion designer Valentino and the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX: The Story of the Red Army Faction, a docudrama based on the West German terrorist group that formed in the late 1960s in opposition to the prevailing post-WWII government. In 2005, Vitagraph Films released Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesias’ EL CRIMEN FERPECTO in the U.S.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" > # # #</span></p>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-43885222210428645822010-09-27T08:28:00.000-07:002010-09-27T08:54:17.638-07:00Ruth Gruber, Journalist Who Captured The Exodus on Film to Celebrate 99th Birthday at Brooklyn Heights Cinema<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSj9BZ-QyYpd3G_tyW3vSL0RVerRrswfDx6jsj3OW2cNXVVjWPXV7Ot3P_aXdEE2KGlfHembxrdkKyMKdjkVMpBD199v8oy1t8-i-ksJxw4SA9xUnXgj9CwnV35_nXHToqpHsHDtm-ew/s1600/ExoduswFlag.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSj9BZ-QyYpd3G_tyW3vSL0RVerRrswfDx6jsj3OW2cNXVVjWPXV7Ot3P_aXdEE2KGlfHembxrdkKyMKdjkVMpBD199v8oy1t8-i-ksJxw4SA9xUnXgj9CwnV35_nXHToqpHsHDtm-ew/s320/ExoduswFlag.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521621948370013042" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnhe8JJWzqXRv4E4sYZC0sCg8o9BPt5v7qwKqe64RETbYP3-2_OZle7SI5pCZ-LcScpNPJBwPr9jtoWVjUUUusW9xPqeIRsR7OEBUC190P9_J6rWkIydnCzqZ6MBzW0JtPXirdvzSL3o/s1600/exodusbookcover.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSnhe8JJWzqXRv4E4sYZC0sCg8o9BPt5v7qwKqe64RETbYP3-2_OZle7SI5pCZ-LcScpNPJBwPr9jtoWVjUUUusW9xPqeIRsR7OEBUC190P9_J6rWkIydnCzqZ6MBzW0JtPXirdvzSL3o/s320/exodusbookcover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521620605683450738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Did you know that when Otto Preminger found out that much of Leon Uris' book EXODUS was based on </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gruber-ruth">Ruth Gruber</a><span style="font-family:arial;">'s EXODUS 1947, he told Ruth he could have saved money had he not bought the rights to the Uris story. He said he wanted to do something for her. She thought, "maybe a screen credit?," but all she got were two tickets to see the film!</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">In 2008 she was invited to Israel to speak about Preminger when the studio donated a print of the film to the Jerusalem Cinematheque's archive. The AHEAD OF TIME crew followed her there to capture Ruth's visit to the Captain of the ship Exodus on film. He was 23 years old at the time. When they reunited, he marveled that she was 11 years older than he and that 60 years had not changed their stance on the events of that time. </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3824237,00.html">Yithak Aharonovitch </a><span style="font-family:arial;">passed away in Israel in December of 2009 at the age of 86.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Ruth took the famous photos of the Exodus trying to come into port in Palestine where it was thwarted by the British, including the one depicting the Union Jack with a swastika painted on it. Her photos were nearly confiscated, but she wouldn't give them up. Ruth's editor at the Herald Tribute decided to put them out over the AP (Associated Press), saying the photos belonged to the world. Her interviews with the refugees on the ship (many of them Holocaust survivors) gave the situation a human face. Ruth's photos were influential in shaping world opinion and Ruth found herself involved in the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. She ended up escorting 1000 survivors to safety on another ship, The Henry Gibbons as part of a US mission. On that </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNLuzGLQz_TpRLCwrJ-EKtW9KhQqe4YNLDndSWN4eJnU9YjSC8kiWCvt8waLP5CQDG3Q9wVrWNYwJPHOrd7dQ2BpyHTTXHlz_9MZKDnC06hChM0StAfIVnNeNHd9qQfbsVIZAq2068HA/s1600/Ruth_Leica.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNLuzGLQz_TpRLCwrJ-EKtW9KhQqe4YNLDndSWN4eJnU9YjSC8kiWCvt8waLP5CQDG3Q9wVrWNYwJPHOrd7dQ2BpyHTTXHlz_9MZKDnC06hChM0StAfIVnNeNHd9qQfbsVIZAq2068HA/s320/Ruth_Leica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521620828673510370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">ship was 5-year old Doris Schecter who is one of the executive producers of the film AHEAD OF TIME. Ruth's book EXODUS 1947, which exposed some unpleasant facts about the British, was finally published in the UK in 2007!</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Learn more about Ruth in the documentary AHEAD OF TIME. She will be speaking live at a cinema in her hometown (Brooklyn, NY) on Thursday, September 30, 2010 (which happens to be her 99th birthday!) after the 7:30 PM screening of AHEAD OF TIME.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Many of Ruth's photos can be seen at this link to the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/PhotosExodus.html">Jewish Virtual Library</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-45041342140685761722009-04-22T01:19:00.000-07:002009-04-22T01:24:52.215-07:00VITAGRAPH FILMS ENTERS DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH CONSTANTIN FILMS TO DISTRIBUTE 2009 OSCAR AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX IN THE U.S<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdwsuWdm_IddumI2yNw-dXbU3XjDrDPaVxs1w6KpY7PX7krW9L0V0dSyOuIEeajDPBWToWfQp6MAZC2FP22cYJzFyXUqDHmZIZEShA7JUNZ3kI7YQUTImBQPeIZXty8RhIGuSjEO9lV8/s1600-h/baader-meinhof-complex-poster-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAdwsuWdm_IddumI2yNw-dXbU3XjDrDPaVxs1w6KpY7PX7krW9L0V0dSyOuIEeajDPBWToWfQp6MAZC2FP22cYJzFyXUqDHmZIZEShA7JUNZ3kI7YQUTImBQPeIZXty8RhIGuSjEO9lV8/s320/baader-meinhof-complex-poster-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327428126139435650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.vitagraphfilms.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vitagraph Films</span></a> has entered into a distribution deal with Constantin Film to distribute <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX</span>, the 2009 Academy Award ® and Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, in all media in the United States. Written and produced by Bernd Eichinger (2005 Academy Award nominee DOWNFALL) and directed by Uli Edel (LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, CHRISTIANE F), the film dramatizes the history of the real-life West German terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF), which rose to violent action against the German political status quo in the late 1960s. Led by Ulrike Meinhof, a prominent journalist who forfeited her career and children to engage in anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist acts of resistance, and Andreas Baader, the group’s youthful members went underground, sacrificing leading normal lives, to fight for a more human society – through terrorist bombings and bloodshed.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX’s ensemble cast includes, Martina Gedeck (THE LIVES OF OTHERS, THE GOOD SHEPARD), Moritz Bleibtreu (RUN LOLA RUN), Johanna Wokalek (AIMEE AND JAGUAR) and Bruno Ganz (THE READER, DOWNFALL). Based on Stefan Aust’s critically acclaimed non-fiction book Der Baader bMeinhof Komplex the film was Constantin Film’s biggest box office success in 2008. An updated edition of Aust’s book was released in March 2009.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Vitagraph Films currently plans to theatrically platform the release of the film in August 2009 in 18 of the top 20 markets.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family:arial;">“We are pleased that an American audience will now be able to see this exceptional film in theatres. David Shultz and Margot Gerber have shown a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and Constantin Film is proud to be in business with Vitagraph Films,” says Martin Moszkowicz of Constantin Film AG.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">“This is a story that has not been widely told in America,” says David Shultz, President of Vitagraph Films.<br /><br /> “With the early years of our current century dominated by the aftermath of 9/11, this is an interesting time for audiences to take a look at a previous generation of terrorism – and through it, a complex political world history that continues to reverberate in our times.”</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Vitagraph Films LLC is currently distributing THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, TOKYO! and VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR. Established in 1999, some of Vitagraph’s previous titles include JCVD, Larry Clark’s WASSUP ROCKERS, Takashi Miike’s AUDITION and Alex de la Iglesia’s EL CRIMEN PERFECTO.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">ABOUT CONSTANTIN FILM</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Constantin Film has been one of the most successful producers and independent distributors of feature films in Germany for over 25 years. The company, which is listed on the stock market since 1999, is also involved in the international production of theatrical films in English as well as TV production (TV movies, series, entertainment formats). The classic production and distribution operations were supplemented successfully in 2004 by license trading and the internal exploitation of video and DVD rights and intensified TV service production, with a particular focus on TV entertainment. Constantin Film’s international box-office hits include The Neverending Story, The Name of the Rose, the Resident Evil and Fantastic Four franchises, Perfume—The Story of a Murderer and Academy Award® nominees Downfall and The Baader Meinhof Complex. Forthcoming releases include Pope Joan and Pandorum. </span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-54304087346651252992009-04-07T17:40:00.000-07:002009-04-07T17:43:11.637-07:00Vitagraph to take VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR into expanded marketplace<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fashion conscious are running down the runway to see <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR,</span> boosting it into the position of highest grossing documentary of 2009. Now open in New York, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles, it continues to roll out across the country with director Matt Tyranuer in person for q & a in as many as 3 cities per weekend!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vogue columnist Andre Leon Talley will join the director for q & a at the City Cinemas 1, 2, 3 in Manhattan on Friday when the film expands beyond the Film Forum where it opened on March 18. Vitagraph Films will now work with the filmmakers to expand the number of cities where the film will open.</span><br /><img style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" src="http://www.shoppingblog.com/pics/valentino_last_emporer_graphic.jpg" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR is a feature-length film on the legendary designer Valentino Garavani in the wake of his exit in 2008 from the company he founded in Rome more than 45 years ago. Produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, the film is an intimate, engaging and very funny fly-on-the-wall exploration of the singular world of one of Italy's richest and most famous men. The film documents the colorful and dramatic closing act of Valentino’s celebrated career, tells the story of his extraordinary life and work, and also explores the larger themes affecting the fashion business today. But at the heart of the film is the unique relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">For theatres, to see photos and trailer and more:</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnZhbGVudGlub21vdmllLmNvbS8=" target="_self">http://www.valentinomovie.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30051481791"><span style="font-family: arial;">Become a fan on Facebook!</span></a>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-46668962096447297042009-03-27T14:19:00.000-07:002009-03-27T14:32:10.236-07:00Tokyo! Opens Today on More LA Screens & Around the Country<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBtHL7vJ53_W0FY5OUjAndF5EhpzXE_cEh2M1Ps5yVCG62fmI1RC8ryZuItcz3coBiXyDK18cZE7lrcb5dtjVAeSTq3S402ygZNgVn9QC4ef2WOVyyRPjXCsbA4etqAVXc8ZfHZXZ38s/s1600-h/tokyo_the_movie_Poster.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMBtHL7vJ53_W0FY5OUjAndF5EhpzXE_cEh2M1Ps5yVCG62fmI1RC8ryZuItcz3coBiXyDK18cZE7lrcb5dtjVAeSTq3S402ygZNgVn9QC4ef2WOVyyRPjXCsbA4etqAVXc8ZfHZXZ38s/s200/tokyo_the_movie_Poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317981344290868626" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">We are holding a second week in Los Angeles and Orange County! Very exciting. There are photos on our </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> Vitagraph fan page from director Michel Gondry's surprise appearance at the Nuart last week for a q & a with lead actress Ayako Fujitani. Oh and join our </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter </a><span style="font-family: arial;">too. Our commentary is really exciting! Last week we went to an event at </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.royal-t.org">Royal/T</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. This weekend, the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.drinkeatplay.com/cupcakechallenge/">LA Cupcake Challenge</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> (which is sold out!).</span><br /><p style="font-family: arial;">Here are some screens we are on this week in the LA Area. Check out this <a href="http://www.tokyothemovie.com/screenings.html">link </a>for more cities and theatres:</p><p style="font-family: arial;">You can join the Vitagraph e-mail list on our<a href="http://www.vitagraphfilms.com/"> home page</a>.<br /></p><p style="font-family: arial;">3/27/09: Irvine, CA<br />Edwards Westpark 8 Cinema<br />3755 Alton Pkwy<br />Irvine, CA 92606<br />(949) 622-8600<br /><a href="http://www.fandango.com/edwardswestpark8_aabhq/theaterpage?wssac=58&wssaffid=11481_REGWebsite" target="_blank">http://www.fandango.com/edwardswestpark8_aabhq/theaterpage?wssac=58&wssaffid=11481_REGWebsite</a><br /> </p><p style="font-family: arial;">3/27/09: West Hollywood, CA<br />Laemmle's Sunset 5<br /><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2" target="_blank">http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=2</a><br />8000 Sunset Blvd.<br />West Hollywood, 90046<br />(323) 848-3500 </p><p style="font-family: arial;">3/27/09: Pasadena, CA<br />Laemmle's Playhouse 7<br /><a href="http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=6" target="_blank">http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?thid=6</a><br />673 East Colorado Blvd.<br />Pasadena, 91101<br />(626) 844-6500 </p><span style="font-family: arial;">3/27/09: Westwood, CA</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Landmark’s Regent Theatre</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/LosAngeles/RegentTheatre.htm" target="_blank">http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/LosAngeles/RegentTheatre.htm</a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">1045 Broxton Avenue (between Weyburn & Kinross) Los Angeles, CA 90024</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">(310) 281-8223</span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-15318372677887750202009-03-18T02:03:00.000-07:002009-03-18T02:20:28.240-07:00Some Nice Press, Ayako stays longer at the Nuart<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Tokyo/tokyo_movie_image__3_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Tokyo/tokyo_movie_image__3_.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">As previously mentioned, Tokyo! opens in Los Angeles on March 20th after a successful New York opening. Will people love Tokyo! as much in our home town. We love the talented and charming<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"> Ayako Fujitani</span> (who plays a young woman with some major transformation issues following a move to Tokyo to find her purpose in life with her fledgling filmmaker boyfriend). Anyway, Ayako has agreed to come to the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Nuart</span> </span>for the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">7:15 PM</span> show on <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Friday, March 20</span> to discuss working with director Michel Gondry, having a "blue screen body," dragging a chair around, her impressions of making movies in Japan and more. She cut her teeth on Gamera and Ultraman flicks growing up and is also a writer.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Originally she was just doing an introduction, but now its a full fledged q & a after the screening. Ayako was interviewed by the LA Times' Michael Ordona so look for a profile on her in what is left of the paper on Thursday. Susan King wrote </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-indieeye15-2009mar15,0,1479900.story">this great peice on the movie</a><span style="font-family:arial;">!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Vitagraph personnel will be hanging around the <a href="http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/LosAngeles/NuartTheatre.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Nuart </span></a>Friday night so come by and have a spring roll with us before, after or during one of the screenings!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We also open this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area including Berkeley and San Jose. All of our theatres are listed at this</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://tokyothemovie.com/screenings.html"> link</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-91578272989604258802009-03-16T00:02:00.000-07:002009-03-16T00:11:20.339-07:00Tokyo! Opens in our Hometown March 20!<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;">Yes, Tokyo! is finally coming to Vitagraph's hometown, that little hamlet know as Los Angeles! David and Margot will be at the </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;" href="http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/LosAngeles/NuartTheatre.htm">Nuart Theatre</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;"> in West LA on March 20 for the 7:30 PM show and we hope to see all of our friends there too. We know we have at least 3 (followers of our blog). We can all go out for sake after the screening.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;">The lead actress in the Michel Gondry segment of Tokyo!, Ayako Fujitani is coming down to introduce the film for that show. See below for more on Ayako. She has a really cool retro looking digital camera.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;">You can actually win tickets to that show if you check out giveaways at </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;" href="http://www.giantrobot.com/">Giant Robot</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;"> and </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;" href="http://www.royal-t.org/">Royal/T</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;"> or listen to </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;" href="http://www.kcrw.org">KCRW</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-family: arial;">And when you come be sure to say hi to Jim and Marc the Nuart managers.</span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-70186322761416471202009-03-10T23:21:00.000-07:002009-03-10T23:33:15.743-07:00TOKYO! Achieves Highest Per Screen Average Gross in Opening Weekend with EXPLICIT ILLS coming in Third in the Country<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 153);"></span>TOKYO! Held Over at the Sunshine and Expands to Five Additional Theatres in New York and Chicago</span><br /><br /></span></b></span><i><b><span style="color: rgb(255, 51, 153);"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></span></b></i><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Vitagraph Films is working on two films that opened against each other this weekend in New York,<a href="http://www.tokyothemovie.com"> TOKYO!</a> (distributed with Liberation Entertainment) and <a href="http://www.explicitillsthemovie.com/">EXPLICIT ILLS</a> (distributed with Peace Arch Entertainment). Both films performed well against studio mega-release WATCHMEN, coming in at 1st highest per screen average in the country for TOKYO! and 3rd for EXPLICIT ILLS. Both films opened on March 6, 2009.<br /><br />TOKYO! came in ahead of WATCHMEN in the box office competition for highest per screen average this weekend, concentrated on one one screen while WATCHMEN went out on thousands. Opening March 6th, the films' three day gross came in at $23,460 on one screen (Landmark's Sunshine Cinema). WATCHMEN diluted its gross by being on too many screens and TOKYO! just snuck in and rose to the top.<br /><br />The film continues its release with a planned opening at Chicago's Music Box on March 13 and expands in New York on four additional screens: BAM, Brooklyn Heights Cinema, AMC Empire on 42nd Street, Angelika's City Cinemas 1, 2, 3 in addition to a hold over at the Sunshine.<br /><br />EXPLICIT ILLS came in 3rd in per screen average on one screen at the Angelika Theatre in New York with a gross of $9,125. The Angelika Film Center will hold it over for a second week. The film expands to Landmark's The Ritz at the Bourse in Philadelphia on March 13 and Los Angeles on March 20.<br /><br />We are trying to find out what drew you to see the film so if you are reading, please comment.<br /></span></span></div>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-64081949918169610882009-03-10T04:17:00.001-07:002009-03-10T05:00:29.751-07:00Tokyo! Sneak Preview at the Egyptian with Michel Gondry & Akyako Fujitani In Person<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIWGi2AbHCVJ5oNQiwnklTXU0TtTLdI2NjLPbe4KwxWHaqKwaERzC1nzn_mNoxRzc3FX0hZo9blHY7E3flMfU2ChenvY2nQ_XAsqIlhGSR9KQo4O2_E4MHAVibF80pjvejCXTh-Lx-Mi4/s1600-h/IMG_1408.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIWGi2AbHCVJ5oNQiwnklTXU0TtTLdI2NjLPbe4KwxWHaqKwaERzC1nzn_mNoxRzc3FX0hZo9blHY7E3flMfU2ChenvY2nQ_XAsqIlhGSR9KQo4O2_E4MHAVibF80pjvejCXTh-Lx-Mi4/s200/IMG_1408.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311526988756302818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">The Sneak Preview of TOKYO! at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood last night turned out to be a real treat with a surprise appearance by Michel Gondry who directed the triptych films' segment "Interior Design" starring Ayako Fujitani (pictured here with Gondry). Gondry is in town meeting with the studio about his next film, so he was able to attend the screening which was as much a multi-national collaboration as the film itself. Members of the American Cinematheque joined with Giant Robot Magazine, The French Film & TV Office, the Japanese American Cultural Community Center and the Korean Cultural Center to present TOKYO!<br /><br />Henry Rollins</span> made the screening as well. <span style="font-family:arial;">Akyao </span><span style="font-family:arial;">brought her digital camera (a German/Japanese collaboration she explained) that looks like an old view camera which was a big hit with the photographers shooting her. Pr</span><span style="font-family:arial;">e-screening activities included a Giant Robot t-shirt giveaway and an intro by Gondry in which he quoted Carax (one of his co-directors) as starting s</span><span style="font-family:arial;">creenings by saying, "I doubt you will like it." He also let everyone know that TOKYO! brought in the highest per screen average in the country when it opened in New York this past weekend - outgrossing studio blockbuster WATCHMEN since the latter was open on thousands of screens nationw</span><span style="font-family:arial;">ide and TOKYO! on just one in New York.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Actress and Director stuc</span><span style="font-family:arial;">k around for a lengthy discussion after the film. They spoke about the casting: Ayako recalled Gondry saying he "was tired of looking at pretty girls" when he found her. Looking pretty radiant herself, Ayako spoke about cutting</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmlITV8fLBCaCM1vCgaIYP6n6oUKIzJTgWUaYq7Eio_40FoMXn76dW51yZKzI6JeqDBP2kzpJWqhxI_JJocm3XmGlNbPnXWFFsKDAu-TJfb8F079YTdEGDh_3oEjAfLOY1wABV_Rb3Ns/s1600-h/IMG_1393.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmlITV8fLBCaCM1vCgaIYP6n6oUKIzJTgWUaYq7Eio_40FoMXn76dW51yZKzI6JeqDBP2kzpJWqhxI_JJocm3XmGlNbPnXWFFsKDAu-TJfb8F079YTdEGDh_3oEjAfLOY1wABV_Rb3Ns/s200/IMG_1393.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311524683233616178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> her teeth as a child and te</span><span style="font-family:arial;">en on Gamera and other monster movies and doing</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> physical acting for the benefit of special effects, including wearing a fair amount of blue screen on her person! Gondry recalled casting Ayako's boyfriend in the movie, a cocky ex-boy band member who he had to bring down to size when he met Ryo and his entourage for the first time. He says the filmmaker character Ryo Kase portrays is not at all based o</span><span style="font-family:arial;">n him, but Ayako said that the joke on the set was that the young actor was trying to imitate some of Gondry's traits as a director to bring into his role as an ambitious young filmmaker. Differences in shooting in Japan? Gondry recalled a blessing ritual that began production.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Following </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcxO7Us1V9ykmnvrnQxCNFrxS6uZ0QvnFMJW9U5Oeq903_BMtLzyZiUuKHd95oF-TURk2ez1kTLriLIJvdFEs9CJjr87Ro5sSUISzRH8hPhGkThdhH5qo0Tt65fwX31aE146SltYHHl9Y/s1600-h/IMG_1447.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcxO7Us1V9ykmnvrnQxCNFrxS6uZ0QvnFMJW9U5Oeq903_BMtLzyZiUuKHd95oF-TURk2ez1kTLriLIJvdFEs9CJjr87Ro5sSUISzRH8hPhGkThdhH5qo0Tt65fwX31aE146SltYHHl9Y/s200/IMG_1447.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311524205100263554" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">the discussion the audience was treated to Sapporo beer and a chance to talk about which segment of the three they liked best - Gondry's tale of the metamorphosis of a young woman who can't seem to find her place in Tokyo!, Leos Carax' story of a madman terrorizing Tokyo - or Bong Joon-ho's fable about a young man who lives as a sh</span><span style="font-family:arial;">ut in, but is forced out of his house after ten years to find the wo</span><span style="font-family:arial;">man he thinks he can love.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">TOKYO! opens on March 20th in Los Angeles and many other cities as well. </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.tokyothemovie.com/">www.tokyothemovie.com</a> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />See more pictures</span> <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=1EatmjVqyYssC&eid=115">View Album at Shutterfly</a><img style="font-family: arial;" src="https://os.shutterfly.com/b/ss/sflyshareprod/1/H.15/111?pageName=sharekey&c1=pictures&c2=blogger" width="1" border="0" height="1" />VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-6455922659738957802009-03-03T11:01:00.000-08:002009-03-03T17:11:55.828-08:00Tokyo! Premiere at the Japan Society last night<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jk5x3RzkLROLH-aQ-6H1mMKmsXyl6r8S4QrcB4vMb6j1O6qfOyDzeD76Cr8vU8npX4oUyUeMtzYUfS-17x0S4aFaoMRsUz6ZT8VuSgg5PWpwtdFnKmkAESV-AEOJpnmt2hZ7qS0fSCw/s1600-h/tokyo!_premiere_02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jk5x3RzkLROLH-aQ-6H1mMKmsXyl6r8S4QrcB4vMb6j1O6qfOyDzeD76Cr8vU8npX4oUyUeMtzYUfS-17x0S4aFaoMRsUz6ZT8VuSgg5PWpwtdFnKmkAESV-AEOJpnmt2hZ7qS0fSCw/s200/tokyo!_premiere_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309041093658888642" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">TOKYO! Premiered last night at the Japan Society and Vitagraph's team including Taeko from newyork-tokyo and Natascha Bodemann, publicist-at-large caught a few iphone photos of the festivities and contributed to this premiere coverage.<br /><br />Despite the weather people braved going out to attend the premiere. We are still gathering details and photos, but from this early report we gather that Liberatio</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGLn9GYGKSq_PlwhK1pbqMLUT1AY0-jX2sGln9-uPy70nsQb3hxX1K1ep32Lfxn8tiqJgbUxeJH3dvmxL39kEKKwvuFRLQYlacH30ipl_vaegx3WN1MRgHyGVhDXk2SEg4kUFD-ArjNQ/s1600-h/tokyo!_premiere_01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGLn9GYGKSq_PlwhK1pbqMLUT1AY0-jX2sGln9-uPy70nsQb3hxX1K1ep32Lfxn8tiqJgbUxeJH3dvmxL39kEKKwvuFRLQYlacH30ipl_vaegx3WN1MRgHyGVhDXk2SEg4kUFD-ArjNQ/s200/tokyo!_premiere_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309041091603446834" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">n Pre</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">sident Jay Boberg (pict</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">ured with Michel Gondry) and Leos Carax were in attendance along with </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Davi</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >d Cross of "Mr. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Show," Vincent </span> <span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Musetto, reviewi</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >ng for the NY Post</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Alison Chernick (the director </span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >of "Matthew Barney:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> No Restraint"), reps from the Consulate General of Japan and others. Gabrielle Bell who wrote the original graphic novel that Gondry based his segment on, joined the directors onstage for the introduction. Reportedly Carax and Gondry stayed until the</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> lights went on at the af</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">ter party.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Ah the party. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Food: lots of great sushi, some sort of cool chicken on a skewer with a very fresh green vegetable, great little mini muffin-cupcake things with some sort of tofu icing in chocolate and vanilla flavor. The vanilla muffin-cupcakes had a green tea flavored tofu icing. And beer from Sapporo! Music was great, with favorites from 70's, 80's and 90's. The DJ was selected by Gondry and his name is forthcoming.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We hear that </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.indiewire.com/">Indiewire</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> covered the premiere so check out their site for posts (and to see our Tokyo banner ads).</span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573375397503134572.post-33259793418113781692009-02-12T11:51:00.000-08:002009-03-03T10:48:56.498-08:00Michel Gondry & Leos Carax In Person at the Sunshine Theatre with TOKYO!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvcRc_sc3FMT2-wye837x-4u7XB8mk8CUx7DOqVAdMcTxdWgdqFhcQT4JvK2OeZ_gGK6eYL4QVFq_6ZkwbwZzuGvbwovowYEvrCtDdXM6KLsY4Cm4wMHHYpbUfKC9vQ5kOJvxnZKb_vxk/s1600-h/tokyo4_250x300v1.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvcRc_sc3FMT2-wye837x-4u7XB8mk8CUx7DOqVAdMcTxdWgdqFhcQT4JvK2OeZ_gGK6eYL4QVFq_6ZkwbwZzuGvbwovowYEvrCtDdXM6KLsY4Cm4wMHHYpbUfKC9vQ5kOJvxnZKb_vxk/s200/tokyo4_250x300v1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309034881580999154" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Vitagraph Films is getting ready to release </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.tokyothemovie.com/">TOKYO!</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> on March 6th in New York City. TOKYO! is a triptych film directed by Michel Gondry (BE KIND REWIND), Leos Carax (POLA X) and Bong Joon-ho (THE HOST).</span> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Directors Leos Carax and Michel Gondry will appear in person</span> at the theatre for opening weekend in New York! Here is when you can hear them talk with TOKYO!<br /></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><br /></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/NewYork/SunshineCinema.htm"><br /></a></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/NewYork/SunshineCinema.htm">Landmark's Sunshine Cinema</a><br />143 E. Houston St.<br />New York, NY<br />212 777-FILM #687<br /> <a href="http://www.landmarktheaters.com/market/NewYork/SunshineCinema.htm" target="_blank" class="style2"><br /></a></p> <span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Friday March 6th</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> 7:30pm Q&A with LEOS CARAX</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> 10:25pm Film Introduction by LEOS CARAX</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Saturday March 7th</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> 7:30pm Q&A with MICHEL GONDRY</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> 10:25pm Film introduction by MICHEL GONDRY</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Sunday March 8th*</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> 2:35pm Q&A with MICHEL GONDRY</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> 5:00pm Film introduction by MICHEL GONDRY</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"> *subject to change</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Tokyo! opens across the country in March and April in a theatre near you as they say. Details on the Tokyo! <a href="http://www.tokyothemovie.com/screenings.html">website.</a></span>VitagraphFilmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902783432742070957noreply@blogger.com1