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Abundant Acreage Available (Angus MacLachlan)
Faith-based cinema is as diverse a genre as there is, from the extreme, often violent portraits of devotion from established directors like Martin Scorsese and Mel Gibson, to the attacks on logic in the God’s Not Dead and Left Behind pictures. Angus MacLachlan, a great storyteller of the not-too-deep south, offers a nuanced example of what this genre can bring, returning with the moving Abundant Acreage Available.
Abundant Acreage Available (Angus MacLachlan)
Faith-based cinema is as diverse a genre as there is, from the extreme, often violent portraits of devotion from established directors like Martin Scorsese and Mel Gibson, to the attacks on logic in the God’s Not Dead and Left Behind pictures. Angus MacLachlan, a great storyteller of the not-too-deep south, offers a nuanced example of what this genre can bring, returning with the moving Abundant Acreage Available.
- 10/6/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I grew up on Broadway musicals. Once upon a time when going to see a show on Broadway didn’t cost you your mortgage plus the life of your first-born, my mom and dad were avid theatergoers. They saw the original production of South Pacific with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, the original production of Camelot with Richard Burton and Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet, and the original production of The King and I with Gertrude Lawrence and a then little-known Yul Brynner.
When they were still dating they went into town to see Oklahoma! Over the years they saw Carousel, and Brigadoon, and Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady, and Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!, and the original West Side Story with Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert. My father fell asleep at Cats and my mother said she...
When they were still dating they went into town to see Oklahoma! Over the years they saw Carousel, and Brigadoon, and Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady, and Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!, and the original West Side Story with Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert. My father fell asleep at Cats and my mother said she...
- 3/27/2017
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Strand Releasing has acquired all Us rights to Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ Portuguese drama The Ornithologist from Films Boutique.
The film – a reimagining of the myth of Saint Anthony of Padua as a modern-day parable of sexual and spiritual transcendence – had its world premiere at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Leopard for best director. It also screened at Toronto and is in the line-up of this week’s New York Film Festival.
Jean Christophe Simon from Films Boutique said: “The Ornithologist is a visionary film and it was important for us to work with a visionary distribution company to share it with the Us audience. Strand Releasing is the perfect home for the film.”
Strand’s Marcus Hu added: “We’re thrilled to have this film. We’ve been tracking the film since the script stage and seeing it develop to the final feature is very gratifying.”
Rodrigues commented:...
The film – a reimagining of the myth of Saint Anthony of Padua as a modern-day parable of sexual and spiritual transcendence – had its world premiere at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Leopard for best director. It also screened at Toronto and is in the line-up of this week’s New York Film Festival.
Jean Christophe Simon from Films Boutique said: “The Ornithologist is a visionary film and it was important for us to work with a visionary distribution company to share it with the Us audience. Strand Releasing is the perfect home for the film.”
Strand’s Marcus Hu added: “We’re thrilled to have this film. We’ve been tracking the film since the script stage and seeing it develop to the final feature is very gratifying.”
Rodrigues commented:...
- 10/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Strand Releasing has acquired all Us rights to Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ Portuguese drama The Ornithologist from Films Boutique.
The film – a reimagining of the myth of Saint Anthony of Padua as a modern-day parable of sexual and spiritual transcendence – had its world premiere at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Leopard for best director. It also screened at Toronto and is in the line-up of this week’s New York Film Festival.
Jean Christophe Simon from Films Boutique said: “The Ornithologist is a visionary film and it was important for us to work with a visionary distribution company to share it with the Us audience. Strand Releasing is the perfect home for the film.”
Strand’s Marcus Hu added: “We’re thrilled to have this film. We’ve been tracking the film since the script stage and seeing it develop to the final feature is very gratifying.”
Rodrigues commented:...
The film – a reimagining of the myth of Saint Anthony of Padua as a modern-day parable of sexual and spiritual transcendence – had its world premiere at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Leopard for best director. It also screened at Toronto and is in the line-up of this week’s New York Film Festival.
Jean Christophe Simon from Films Boutique said: “The Ornithologist is a visionary film and it was important for us to work with a visionary distribution company to share it with the Us audience. Strand Releasing is the perfect home for the film.”
Strand’s Marcus Hu added: “We’re thrilled to have this film. We’ve been tracking the film since the script stage and seeing it develop to the final feature is very gratifying.”
Rodrigues commented:...
- 10/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, João Pedro Rodrigues‘ The Ornithologist follows a man’s journey through Portugal in search of rare birds as his experience gets more mysterious. Speaking about shooting on location, he told us, “It was a pleasure, because those places are so beautiful and so hidden. They are so unexplored; sometimes I felt I was somewhere where very few people had been in a long time. It’s like going back in time, because those places have been like that for a long time; they’ve changed very little. You’re in a place where time has different rules, as if you could be in the past but it’s now.”
One of our favorites of the festival, we said in our review, “Publicly stated by its director to concern Saint Anthony, the Portuguese priest and friar who legend...
One of our favorites of the festival, we said in our review, “Publicly stated by its director to concern Saint Anthony, the Portuguese priest and friar who legend...
- 9/27/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Publicly stated by its director to concern Saint Anthony, the Portuguese priest and friar who legend calls the most supernatural of saints, The Ornithologist luckily manages to see the profane outweigh the sacred — no white elephantine “spirituality,” but rather a progression of set-pieces. We have something of a return for João Pedro Rodrigues to his debut feature Fantasma, a nocturnal “erotic thriller” of sorts that moved by the logic of its own images, this in opposition to more character-driven films such as Two Drifters and To Die Like a Man or his most recent The Last Time I Saw Macao, a tad too much an academic exercise in mirroring post-colonialism through a deadpan “non-mystery.”
Our supposed Saint Anthony stand-in (and certainly object of lust for Rodrigues), Fernando (the Jason Statham-like Paul Hamy), is an ornithologist at work in Portugal’s wilderness, researching storks. The extended shots of him rowing...
Our supposed Saint Anthony stand-in (and certainly object of lust for Rodrigues), Fernando (the Jason Statham-like Paul Hamy), is an ornithologist at work in Portugal’s wilderness, researching storks. The extended shots of him rowing...
- 8/8/2016
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
One of world cinema’s most provocative auteurs returns to Cannes with his third feature film, the Un Certain Regard selection “To Die Like a Man.” Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ style ranges from avant-garde and ambiguous (his debut, 2002’s “O Fantasma”) to Almodovar-worthy melodrama and unabashed flamboyance (2006’s “Two Drifters”). For his latest, the Portuguese director continues […]
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- 5/29/2016
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
The twelfth entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Mubi will be showing João Pedro Rodrigues's To Die Like a Man (2009) March 4 - April 2 and Two Drifters (2005) March 5 - April 3, 2016 in the United States.The concept that unifies the work of Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues (signed alone or in collaboration with João Rui Guerra da Mata) is that of shifting: a shifting of gender (in any direction from male to female, via all hybrid possibilities in-between), and of genre (romantic melodrama crossed with the fantastique, or documentary sliding over into fiction as in The Last Time I Saw Macao, 2012), even of species (confusion of human and animal realms in O Fantasma, 2000). Most gripping and beguiling of all is the director’s fondness for unexpectedly supernatural themes—all the better to blur the distinction between mortality and immortality, a key theme...
- 3/4/2016
- by Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin
- MUBI
The Ornithologist
Director: Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Writers: Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Joao Rui Guerra
Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues has built a fantastic filmography of offbeat, experimental films, including notable works like 2000’s O Fantasma! and 2005’s Two Drifters. He has a long history of collaborating with art director Joao Rui Guerra, which culminated in the superb docu-hybrid film noir essay The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012). The pair have been working on another feature, which supposedly began principal photography over the summer. Little has been revealed about the film beyond a style aiming to be a mix between Macao and Rodrigues’ excellent 2009 film To Die Like a Man (a film worth seeking out if you happened to miss it). It’s interesting to note Rodrigues trained as an ornithologist earlier in life, so we expect something meditative and introspective.
Cast: Tba.
Production Co.: Black Maria
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
Director: Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Writers: Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Joao Rui Guerra
Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues has built a fantastic filmography of offbeat, experimental films, including notable works like 2000’s O Fantasma! and 2005’s Two Drifters. He has a long history of collaborating with art director Joao Rui Guerra, which culminated in the superb docu-hybrid film noir essay The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012). The pair have been working on another feature, which supposedly began principal photography over the summer. Little has been revealed about the film beyond a style aiming to be a mix between Macao and Rodrigues’ excellent 2009 film To Die Like a Man (a film worth seeking out if you happened to miss it). It’s interesting to note Rodrigues trained as an ornithologist earlier in life, so we expect something meditative and introspective.
Cast: Tba.
Production Co.: Black Maria
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.
- 1/10/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
After stops in Locarno, Tiff and Nyff, The Cinema Guild have The Last Time I Saw Macao , João Pedro Rodrigues was born in Lisbon. His feature films are and “The Last Time I Saw Macao” (2012). João Rui Guerra da Mata has co-written with João Pedro Rodrigues the feature film “To Die Like a Man” (2009). “The Last Time I Saw Macao” (2012) is his first feature film as director.
Gist:
Worth Noting: Rodrigues’ previous films are available for viewing: “O Fantasma” (2000), Two Drifters aka “Odette” (2005), “To Die Like a Man” (2009)
Do We Care?: Although our Blake Williams does have some reservations about the film (Tiff ’12 Daily recap), he thinks that “the disappearance of history and culture (Macao was a Portuguese colony for 4 centuries, ending in 1999, so the filmmakers are playing with their own genuine and personal nostalgia from its past), these little bursts of light infused a visual poeticism that made the overall viewing rewarding.
Gist:
Worth Noting: Rodrigues’ previous films are available for viewing: “O Fantasma” (2000), Two Drifters aka “Odette” (2005), “To Die Like a Man” (2009)
Do We Care?: Although our Blake Williams does have some reservations about the film (Tiff ’12 Daily recap), he thinks that “the disappearance of history and culture (Macao was a Portuguese colony for 4 centuries, ending in 1999, so the filmmakers are playing with their own genuine and personal nostalgia from its past), these little bursts of light infused a visual poeticism that made the overall viewing rewarding.
- 12/5/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
John Carpenter has an interesting track record of films. Many are considered cult classics like Halloween, The Thing, and Escape from New York. Others are held in high esteem by some and shunned by others. I'm referring to The Fog, Prince of Darkness, and Vampires. A select few are seen as outright disasters. One prime example everyone would agree on would be "Ghosts of Mars." A film that seems to fall just a little shy of being considered a shining example of his work is They Live.
Two drifters try to make ends meet while working construction and living in a shanty town. One of the men, Nada (Roddy Piper), begins to notice suspicious activities occurring in the church across the street. He investigates and finds a small group of people who discovered aliens have taken over the world and dominate us subliminally through hidden messages delivered via television, billboards,...
Two drifters try to make ends meet while working construction and living in a shanty town. One of the men, Nada (Roddy Piper), begins to notice suspicious activities occurring in the church across the street. He investigates and finds a small group of people who discovered aliens have taken over the world and dominate us subliminally through hidden messages delivered via television, billboards,...
- 11/20/2012
- by feeds@themoviepool.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
Funeral services for the teacher abducted Jan. 7 during a pre-dawn jog through her rural Montana town will be held Friday at the high school where she taught algebra. Two drifters are charged with kidnapping Sherry Arnold, 43, a mom of two kids and three stepkids. After one of the men allegedly confessed to burying her in unattended farmland, the FBI on March 21 discovered her body near Williston, N.D. Family members say they remain devastated by the loss, but they don't want to become consumed with anger for the defendants. "We just want Sherry back," Rhonda Whited, Arnold's sister, tells People.
- 3/29/2012
- by Howard Breuer
- PEOPLE.com
We're deep in the heart of the 18th Austin Film Festival we've been spotlighting the Austin films, but Uncertain, TX has so many Texas filmmakers working on it, we just had to do a quick interview with director Eric Steele and producer Adam Donaghey, both based up in the Dfw area. Austin's Clay Liford (Wuss, Earthling) did the cinematography. Uncertain, TX may be Steele's first feature film, but he's been active in the local film community. Steele, Donaghey, Barak Epstein and Jason Reimer are all part of Aviation Cinemas, which revived the historic Texas Theatre in 2010.
Describe your film for us, in a quick and dirty paragraph.
Eric Steele: Uncertain, TX is, in essence, the worst bed and breakfast experience imaginable. Two drifters happen upon an old bed and breakfast in a bayou town near the Louisiana/Texas border and encounter a very odd family who psychologically torments them during their stay.
Describe your film for us, in a quick and dirty paragraph.
Eric Steele: Uncertain, TX is, in essence, the worst bed and breakfast experience imaginable. Two drifters happen upon an old bed and breakfast in a bayou town near the Louisiana/Texas border and encounter a very odd family who psychologically torments them during their stay.
- 10/22/2011
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues Writers: João Pedro Rodrigues, Rui Catalão, João Rui Guerra da Mata Starring: Fernando Santos, Alexander David, Chandra Malatitch, Cindy Scrash Masks and makeup are often used to disguise one's true self and in Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues' (The Phantom, Two Drifters) To Die Like A Man, some characters desire to be someone different while others want to hide from reality. Rodrigues' narrative revolves around the existential quagmire in which a pre-operative transsexual named Tonia (Fernando Santos) is hopelessly stuck. When Tonia is told by a doctor, “nothing is discarded, everything is turned into something else,” we know this dialog is referring to much more than the origami-like process of re-purposing Tonia's penis into a vagina. How can anything in To Die Like A Man be taken at face value when the characters' faces [and genders] are blurred and/or transformed? Tonia is an aging Lisbon drag...
- 8/27/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Release Date: Aug. 23, 2011
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
Fernando Santos is Tonia in To Die Like a Man.
A 2009 France-Portugal co-production, the film To Die Like a Man is a fantasy-musical-drama mash-up by Portuguese writer/director João Pedro Rodrigues (O Fantasma, Two Drifters), who’s known for movies that deal with explicit, gay-themed subjects.
To Die Like a Man tells the tale of Tonia (Fernando Santos), a larger-than-life drag icon in late 1980s Lisbon, who meets and falls in love with Rosario (Alexander David), a young soldier who has gone Awol.
Under pressure from Rosario, Tonia begins a series of operations to become a woman, but the final step proves much harder than she could have guessed. Torn between her love for Rosario and her deeply rooted religious convictions, Tonia looks for a pleasant distraction via a trip to the countryside with Rosario. But when they get lost along the way,...
Price: DVD $24.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
Fernando Santos is Tonia in To Die Like a Man.
A 2009 France-Portugal co-production, the film To Die Like a Man is a fantasy-musical-drama mash-up by Portuguese writer/director João Pedro Rodrigues (O Fantasma, Two Drifters), who’s known for movies that deal with explicit, gay-themed subjects.
To Die Like a Man tells the tale of Tonia (Fernando Santos), a larger-than-life drag icon in late 1980s Lisbon, who meets and falls in love with Rosario (Alexander David), a young soldier who has gone Awol.
Under pressure from Rosario, Tonia begins a series of operations to become a woman, but the final step proves much harder than she could have guessed. Torn between her love for Rosario and her deeply rooted religious convictions, Tonia looks for a pleasant distraction via a trip to the countryside with Rosario. But when they get lost along the way,...
- 8/1/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Led by Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Be Kind Rewind,” “The Science of Sleep” “Human Nature”), the following jury members are responsible for selecting the student winners of Cannes Cinéfondation competition (award monies of 15,000€, 11,250€ and 7,500€ go to the top three!), and the winners of the Short Film competition.
Wondering what it takes to get on a Cannes jury? Check out the following juror’s bios and keep us posted!
Julie Gayet, Actress and Producer, France
Julie Gayet began her acting career in A la belle étoile, three years before winning the Romy Schneider Prize in 1996. Since then she has starred in films directed by Michel Deville, Agnès Varda, Merzak Allouache, Emmanuel Mouret and Patrice Leconte, to name but a few. In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, which would go on to carry out ambitious projects such as Fix me and Huit fois debout.
Jessica Hausner,...
Wondering what it takes to get on a Cannes jury? Check out the following juror’s bios and keep us posted!
Julie Gayet, Actress and Producer, France
Julie Gayet began her acting career in A la belle étoile, three years before winning the Romy Schneider Prize in 1996. Since then she has starred in films directed by Michel Deville, Agnès Varda, Merzak Allouache, Emmanuel Mouret and Patrice Leconte, to name but a few. In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, which would go on to carry out ambitious projects such as Fix me and Huit fois debout.
Jessica Hausner,...
- 4/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Led by Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Be Kind Rewind,” “The Science of Sleep” “Human Nature”), the following jury members are responsible for selecting the student winners of Cannes Cinéfondation competition (award monies of 15,000€, 11,250€ and 7,500€ go to the top three!), and the winners of the Short Film competition.
Wondering what it takes to get on a Cannes jury? Check out the following juror’s bios and keep us posted!
Julie Gayet, Actress and Producer, France
Julie Gayet began her acting career in A la belle étoile, three years before winning the Romy Schneider Prize in 1996. Since then she has starred in films directed by Michel Deville, Agnès Varda, Merzak Allouache, Emmanuel Mouret and Patrice Leconte, to name but a few. In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, which would go on to carry out ambitious projects such as Fix me and Huit fois debout.
Jessica Hausner,...
Wondering what it takes to get on a Cannes jury? Check out the following juror’s bios and keep us posted!
Julie Gayet, Actress and Producer, France
Julie Gayet began her acting career in A la belle étoile, three years before winning the Romy Schneider Prize in 1996. Since then she has starred in films directed by Michel Deville, Agnès Varda, Merzak Allouache, Emmanuel Mouret and Patrice Leconte, to name but a few. In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, which would go on to carry out ambitious projects such as Fix me and Huit fois debout.
Jessica Hausner,...
- 4/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues has carved out a niche in contemporary queer cinema over the past ten years with a trio of confrontational, subversive features. After completing "The Phantom" in 2000, Rodrigues continued his rise with the Cannes Directors Fortnight entry "Two Drifters" in 2005, and reached the pinnacle of his still-young career with 2009's "To Die Like a Man." Although it played at Cannes that year and eventually ...
- 4/7/2011
- Indiewire
Better late...than never at all. Despite being selected as this year's Foreign Oscar selection and having had more than a full year to pick the title up, Strand Releasing who paired on Joao Pedro Rodrigues' Two Drifters, have finally placed a winning bid on To Die Like a Man. The pick-up comes more than a year since it premiered at major fests such as Cannes, Tiff and Nyff of 2009. Strand is releasing the film next year. Critically well-received, in order to forgive and be forgiven for the slights endured over a long life as a transsexual club performer, Tonia devolves her body back into a male form and seeks reconciliation with her estranged son. tale of a transsexual losing top status. This project was one of 15 selected for the 2007 edition of the Cannes Film Festival’s Atelier de la Cinefondation.
- 10/6/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Better late...than never at all. Despite being selected as this year's Foreign Oscar selection and having had more than a full year to pick the title up, Strand Releasing who paired on Joao Pedro Rodrigues' Two Drifters, have finally placed a winning bid on To Die Like a Man. The pick-up comes more than a year since it premiered at major fests such as Cannes, Tiff and Nyff of 2009. Strand is releasing the film next year. Critically well-received, in order to forgive and be forgiven for the slights endured over a long life as a transsexual club performer, Tonia devolves her body back into a male form and seeks reconciliation with her estranged son. tale of a transsexual losing top status. This project was one of 15 selected for the 2007 edition of the Cannes Film Festival’s Atelier de la Cinefondation.
- 10/6/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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