Title: Genius on Hold Director: Gregory Marquette The United States of America is celebrated as the land of the free, and heralded as a place of great opportunity for entrepreneurs. While true, there’s also a dark grey lining to the silver optimism of that sunny-faced reading, because for almost every societal innovation that helps change and better the way we live, there’s some tale of an enterprising inventor getting screwed out of credit or otherwise left twisting in the wind due to corporate ruthlessness. The engaging documentary “Genius on Hold” details one such story, and if its attempts to weld a larger allegorical framework extending both backwards and forward in time onto a more [ Read More ]
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- 3/12/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
In the world of telecommunications, Walter Shaw was probably the most important inventor after Alexander Graham Bell. A Bell Telephone lineman turned engineer who eventually had 39 patents to his credit — among them call forwarding, conference calling, touchtone dialing and the voice-activated speakerphone — he died penniless and forgotten. With the documentary Genius on Hold, opening in limited release, director Gregory Marquette unearths a story so intensely emblematic of American corporatism that its significance is self-evident. Shaw’s experiences speak loud and clear about the devastating greed of monopolies and the hypocrisy of elected officials who do
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- 3/1/2013
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Corporate America's foulness—from its slave-trade foundation to its ransacking of public coffers before and after the most recent Wall Street meltdown—is exhaustively documented, but it's been a while since any film (fiction or nonfiction) illustrated it with the passion, focused fury, and humanity of Gregory Marquette's documentary Genius on Hold. Here is the crushing story of Walter Shaw, the blue-collar genius whose innovations included technology that made possible such now-standard phone features as conference calls, the switchboard, and call forwarding, but who died broke, broken, and forgotten after battling Bell Telephone for decades to get his fair share of credit and profits. Old newsreels and photos are seamlessly woven with interviews with scientists, pro...
- 2/27/2013
- Village Voice
Catch the Genius on Hold trailer and check out the poster and an image from the Gregory Marquette documentary narrated by Frank Langella. A talented and prolific inventor dies penniless and unknown, even though his creations are about as commonplace as staplers. A jewel thief son blames his life of crime on the wrongs that befell the father. Add some mob connections that taint both men's lives and a final reunion between father and son, and you've got the makings of a blockbuster story. Marquette directs and writes the film produced by Walter T. Shaw which has yet to find a theatrical release date. The film is rated PG for thematic elements, brief language and some smoking images. Check out the trailer for Genius on Hold below, and under that, the poster.
- 1/17/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Catch the Genius on Hold trailer and check out the poster and an image from the Gregory Marquette documentary narrated by Frank Langella. A talented and prolific inventor dies penniless and unknown, even though his creations are about as commonplace as staplers. A jewel thief son blames his life of crime on the wrongs that befell the father. Add some mob connections that taint both men's lives and a final reunion between father and son, and you've got the makings of a blockbuster story. Marquette directs and writes the film produced by Walter T. Shaw which has yet to find a theatrical release date. The film is rated PG for thematic elements, brief language and some smoking images. Check out the trailer for Genius on Hold below, and under that, the poster.
- 1/17/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Battle Of The Pacific
Stars: Sean McGowan, Daniel Baldwin, Treat Williams, Matthew R. Anderson, Yutaka Takenouchi | Written by Takuya Nishioka, Gregory Marquette, Cellin Gluck | Directed by Hideyuki Hirayama
Four months after the hostilities of WWII officially ceased, Capt. Sakae Oba (aka The Fox) and a loyalist band of Japanese soldiers entrenched themselves on Mt. Tapochau and continued fighting a guerrilla campaign. Meanwhile, a U.S. officer, determined to flush out him out of his mountain hideaway, sets about his seemingly simple objective. Strengthened by several hundred civilians who refuse to enter camps or follow suicide directives, Oba and his people fight on, unable to come to terms with an unthinkable defeat.
Much like Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, Battle of the Pacific is a war movie told from the perspective of both sides of the battle – in this case the Japanese and the American’s.
Stars: Sean McGowan, Daniel Baldwin, Treat Williams, Matthew R. Anderson, Yutaka Takenouchi | Written by Takuya Nishioka, Gregory Marquette, Cellin Gluck | Directed by Hideyuki Hirayama
Four months after the hostilities of WWII officially ceased, Capt. Sakae Oba (aka The Fox) and a loyalist band of Japanese soldiers entrenched themselves on Mt. Tapochau and continued fighting a guerrilla campaign. Meanwhile, a U.S. officer, determined to flush out him out of his mountain hideaway, sets about his seemingly simple objective. Strengthened by several hundred civilians who refuse to enter camps or follow suicide directives, Oba and his people fight on, unable to come to terms with an unthinkable defeat.
Much like Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, Battle of the Pacific is a war movie told from the perspective of both sides of the battle – in this case the Japanese and the American’s.
- 6/10/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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