Filmmakers Sara Dosa and Lars Ostenfeld, whose docs “Fire of Love” and “Into the Ice” are vying for the top Dox:Award at Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival, have opened up about the creative challenges of making films about science and climate change during a morning talk at the fest’s industry events.
Dosa’s “Fire of Love,” which premiered at Sundance where it was picked up by National Geographic Films, is a lyrical archival collage of extraordinary archive material about the lives of French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft.
Asked how she chose her story, Dosa explained that she came across them when researching her previous film set in Iceland (“The Seer and the Unseen”), and knew they were the perfect fit.
“I am endlessly curious about the human relationship with nature, specifically through the lens of myth or allegory – and how a central metaphor can tease out wider themes...
Dosa’s “Fire of Love,” which premiered at Sundance where it was picked up by National Geographic Films, is a lyrical archival collage of extraordinary archive material about the lives of French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft.
Asked how she chose her story, Dosa explained that she came across them when researching her previous film set in Iceland (“The Seer and the Unseen”), and knew they were the perfect fit.
“I am endlessly curious about the human relationship with nature, specifically through the lens of myth or allegory – and how a central metaphor can tease out wider themes...
- 4/1/2022
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
For almost as long as we’ve been hearing about “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino and Sony Pictures, which will release the film, have tried to dispel the notion that it will be all about the Manson murders.
They couldn’t have made their point better than they did with the teaser trailer released Wednesday. Tarantino signals with the teaser that that the film won’t just be a portrait of one horrible night in 1969, but rather of an entire era, sweeping across at least three years prior to the Manson murders.
Because he’s Quentin Tarantino, he doled out those clues via obscure Bruce Lee knowledge, old TV and movie marquees. Let’s look at all the signs, literal and figurative, that “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” won’t surrender its story to Manson.
First, Some Background
On Aug. 9, 1969, Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie...
They couldn’t have made their point better than they did with the teaser trailer released Wednesday. Tarantino signals with the teaser that that the film won’t just be a portrait of one horrible night in 1969, but rather of an entire era, sweeping across at least three years prior to the Manson murders.
Because he’s Quentin Tarantino, he doled out those clues via obscure Bruce Lee knowledge, old TV and movie marquees. Let’s look at all the signs, literal and figurative, that “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” won’t surrender its story to Manson.
First, Some Background
On Aug. 9, 1969, Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie...
- 3/21/2019
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Among the Hollywood locations you can expect to see in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is the Cinerama Dome. Photos posted to social media featured period-specific posters, cars, and outfits from the 1960s, with the theater advertising Bernard L. Kowalski’s disaster movie “Krakatoa, East of Java,” which was released May 14, 1969.
According to a Cinerama employee who witnessed the shoot but requested anonymity, it was not a full-fledged production but more of a second-unit effort: “They just wanted to get the sun going down and the lights coming on.”
Twitter user J.S. Lewis posted a thread in which he explained he stumbled onto the set of Tarantino’s movie after his screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey” in the ome was moved to a different theater. Other Twitter users expressed frustration over the fact “2001” was bumped from the Dome so that an untitled Sony movie could use the space for production.
According to a Cinerama employee who witnessed the shoot but requested anonymity, it was not a full-fledged production but more of a second-unit effort: “They just wanted to get the sun going down and the lights coming on.”
Twitter user J.S. Lewis posted a thread in which he explained he stumbled onto the set of Tarantino’s movie after his screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey” in the ome was moved to a different theater. Other Twitter users expressed frustration over the fact “2001” was bumped from the Dome so that an untitled Sony movie could use the space for production.
- 6/13/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
‘Things Blowing Up Good’ has been surefire entertainment since the beginning of cinema, but this ill-fated Cinerama extravaganza about the biggest explosion in recorded human history limps along despite some pretty darned impressive volcanic effects. It’s quite an entertaining spectacle, with various good performers in three soap opera plots, either overacting or loitering about with nothing to do. And don’t forget the from-left-field musical striptease.
Krakatoa East of Java
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / Street Date September 12, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo, Rossano Brazzi, John Leyton, J.D. Cannon, Jacqueline (Jacqui) Chan, Victoria Young, Marc Lawrence, Geoffrey Holder, Niall MacGinnis, Sumi Haru.
Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer
Film Editors: Walter Hannemann, Warren Low, Maurice Rootes
Production Design: Eugèné Lourié
Costumes: Laure Lourié
Special Effects: Eugèné Lourié, Alex Weldon, Francisco Prósper
Original Music: Frank De Vol
Written by Clifford Newton Gould,...
Krakatoa East of Java
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / Street Date September 12, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo, Rossano Brazzi, John Leyton, J.D. Cannon, Jacqueline (Jacqui) Chan, Victoria Young, Marc Lawrence, Geoffrey Holder, Niall MacGinnis, Sumi Haru.
Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer
Film Editors: Walter Hannemann, Warren Low, Maurice Rootes
Production Design: Eugèné Lourié
Costumes: Laure Lourié
Special Effects: Eugèné Lourié, Alex Weldon, Francisco Prósper
Original Music: Frank De Vol
Written by Clifford Newton Gould,...
- 9/2/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Just weeks after losing Richard Kiel, another legendary Bond villain actor has passed away - 84-year-old Geoffrey Holder died due to complications from pneumonia on Sunday.
A dancer, choreographer, actor and Tony winner, Holder is mostly known for his iconic deep voice and distinct laugh along with his tall stature. The Trinidad-born entertainer memorably played Baron Samedi in Roger Moore's first James Bond outing "Live and Let Die".
Other screen roles include the overt innuendo-producing advertisement director Nelson in the Eddie Murphy comedy "Boomerang," the bodyguard Punjab in 1982's "Annie" film adaptation, William Shakespeare X in "Doctor Dolittle," a sailor in "Krakatoa: East of Java," Sorcerer in Woody Allen's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" and the narrator of Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". He also pitched 7Up in commercials during the 1970s and 1980s.
On the stage he participated in numerous musicals,...
A dancer, choreographer, actor and Tony winner, Holder is mostly known for his iconic deep voice and distinct laugh along with his tall stature. The Trinidad-born entertainer memorably played Baron Samedi in Roger Moore's first James Bond outing "Live and Let Die".
Other screen roles include the overt innuendo-producing advertisement director Nelson in the Eddie Murphy comedy "Boomerang," the bodyguard Punjab in 1982's "Annie" film adaptation, William Shakespeare X in "Doctor Dolittle," a sailor in "Krakatoa: East of Java," Sorcerer in Woody Allen's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" and the narrator of Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". He also pitched 7Up in commercials during the 1970s and 1980s.
On the stage he participated in numerous musicals,...
- 10/7/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Schell with Brando in The Young Lions.
Oscar-winning Austrian actor Maximillian Schell has passed away at the age of 83. Schell made his English language screen debut opposite Marlon Brando in the WWII film The Young Lions in 1958. Three years later he won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg. Schell played an attorney burdened with the thankless task of defending Nazi war criminals. The character, while repelled by the acts some individuals committed, offered a spirited defense that brought nuance to the circumstances in which National Socialism had arisen. The intelligent depiction of this sensitive subject- and Schell's impassioned performance- was praised internationally. Schell continued to be a leading man in high profile film productions including Tokapi, Counterpoint, Krakatoa: East of Java, The Odessa File, A Bridge Too Far, The Freshman, The Chosen and Deep Impact. He was nominated for Oscars two other...
- 2/2/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Movie biz lore is rife with quite possibly apocryphal stories of films being renamed by studio suits terrified of confusing we poor thick viewer-types. Well, now add another such tale to the plethora, as Martin Scorsese’s latest appears to have been fiddled with, and not for the first time.
Okay, so we all know the story about stage play The Madness of George III being rechristened The Madness of King George when it made the leap to the silver screen, supposedly so audiences wouldn’t think that they’d missed Mad George I and Mad George II. And reeling back further in time, what about Krakatoa: East of Java? Oh sure, the title was just plain wrong, geographically speaking, but it was made to stick by producers who reckoned ‘east’ sounded more exotic than ‘west’.
What does this have to do with Scorsese’s newie? Well, as you quite possibly already know,...
Okay, so we all know the story about stage play The Madness of George III being rechristened The Madness of King George when it made the leap to the silver screen, supposedly so audiences wouldn’t think that they’d missed Mad George I and Mad George II. And reeling back further in time, what about Krakatoa: East of Java? Oh sure, the title was just plain wrong, geographically speaking, but it was made to stick by producers who reckoned ‘east’ sounded more exotic than ‘west’.
What does this have to do with Scorsese’s newie? Well, as you quite possibly already know,...
- 7/1/2011
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
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