Sabine Krayenbühl began her career as an editor in 1994 with a number of small shorts and features. Her breakthrough came in 2003 with My Architect, a documentary on architect Louis Kahn directed by his song Nathaniel. She has since edited more than 10 feature-length docs, including the 2016 film Letters from Baghdad, which she directed. She reunites with Nathaniel Kahn for The Price of Everything, a documentary look at the contemporary art world, which, as she says below, “values money above everything.” Krayenbühl spoke with Filmmaker ahead of the film’s five screenings at Sundance about her editing process. Filmmaker: How and why […]...
- 1/24/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Jairus McLeary in the Soho House screening room on The Work: "It's very masculine. That's why Amy Foote, our editor, and Alice Henty, the producer, they were the first women to see this footage." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Rebecca Miller's Arthur Miller: Writer; Doug Nichol's California Typewriter; Andrew Rossi on Okwui Okpokwasili's Bronx Gothic; Elvira Lind's Bobbi Jene; Michael Almereyda's Escapes on Hampton Fancher; Brett Morgen's Jane on Jane Goodall; Ceyda Torun's KEDi; Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum's Letters From Baghdad with Tilda Swinton voicing Getrude Bell; Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold; Agnès Varda and Jr's Faces Places; Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane's School Life; Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh; Lara Stolman's Swim Team; Kirk Simon's The Pulitzer At 100, and Josh Koury and Myles Kane's Voyeur on Gay Talese...
Rebecca Miller's Arthur Miller: Writer; Doug Nichol's California Typewriter; Andrew Rossi on Okwui Okpokwasili's Bronx Gothic; Elvira Lind's Bobbi Jene; Michael Almereyda's Escapes on Hampton Fancher; Brett Morgen's Jane on Jane Goodall; Ceyda Torun's KEDi; Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum's Letters From Baghdad with Tilda Swinton voicing Getrude Bell; Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold; Agnès Varda and Jr's Faces Places; Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane's School Life; Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh; Lara Stolman's Swim Team; Kirk Simon's The Pulitzer At 100, and Josh Koury and Myles Kane's Voyeur on Gay Talese...
- 11/17/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
One hundred seventy features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 90th Academy Awards. That’s 25 more than 2016. Assuming they all book their qualifying runs in New York and Los Angeles, the members of the documentary branch have just a few more weeks to see as many films as possible and file their votes for the shortlist of 15 to be announced in December. They’re each supposed to watch an assigned list of about 20 films, plus as many more as they can.
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
It’s possible for documentaries to also vie for Best Picture, although it is rare. Among this year’s most lauded features are “City of Ghosts,” “Faces Places,” “Jane,” “Kedi” and “One of Us.”
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
“Aida’s Secrets”
“Al Di Qua”
“All the Rage...
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
It’s possible for documentaries to also vie for Best Picture, although it is rare. Among this year’s most lauded features are “City of Ghosts,” “Faces Places,” “Jane,” “Kedi” and “One of Us.”
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
“Aida’s Secrets”
“Al Di Qua”
“All the Rage...
- 10/27/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
One hundred seventy features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 90th Academy Awards. That’s 25 more than 2016. Assuming they all book their qualifying runs in New York and Los Angeles, the members of the documentary branch have just a few more weeks to see as many films as possible and file their votes for the shortlist of 15 to be announced in December. They’re each supposed to watch an assigned list of about 20 films, plus as many more as they can.
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
It’s possible for documentaries to also vie for Best Picture, although it is rare. Among this year’s most lauded features are “City of Ghosts,” “Faces Places,” “Jane,” “Kedi” and “One of Us.”
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
“Aida’s Secrets”
“Al Di Qua”
“All the Rage...
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
It’s possible for documentaries to also vie for Best Picture, although it is rare. Among this year’s most lauded features are “City of Ghosts,” “Faces Places,” “Jane,” “Kedi” and “One of Us.”
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”
“Aida’s Secrets”
“Al Di Qua”
“All the Rage...
- 10/27/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
A simple listing, duplicated from the dvd + vod UK and Ireland page, of new releases and other stuff currently available, for the benefit of those playing along by RSS or keeping up via the Daily Digest emails (sign up here).
new dvd+vod Get Out Personal Shopper Beauty and the Beast Spaceship I’m planning to watch… Frantz Neruda A Silent Voice
2017’s films, ranked by maryann (subscribers only until the end of the year)
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recent releases Aquarius Certain Women Chasing Asylum Denial Fences Finding Altamira Finding Kim The Founder The Great Wall Hacksaw Ridge Hidden Figures I Am Not Your Negro John Wick 2 Kong: Skull Island The Lego Batman Movie Letters from Baghdad Logan Loving Moonlight Prevenge The Salesman Toni Erdmann T2 Trainspotting 20th Century Women We Are X Elle Gold Patriots Day Spaceship Aftermath The Autopsy of Jane Doe A Cure for Wellness...
new dvd+vod Get Out Personal Shopper Beauty and the Beast Spaceship I’m planning to watch… Frantz Neruda A Silent Voice
2017’s films, ranked by maryann (subscribers only until the end of the year)
get all reviews since 1997 here
recent releases Aquarius Certain Women Chasing Asylum Denial Fences Finding Altamira Finding Kim The Founder The Great Wall Hacksaw Ridge Hidden Figures I Am Not Your Negro John Wick 2 Kong: Skull Island The Lego Batman Movie Letters from Baghdad Logan Loving Moonlight Prevenge The Salesman Toni Erdmann T2 Trainspotting 20th Century Women We Are X Elle Gold Patriots Day Spaceship Aftermath The Autopsy of Jane Doe A Cure for Wellness...
- 7/11/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Gertude Bell seated on camelback between Winston Churchill (left) and T.E. Lawrence on a visit to Egypt, in the documentary Letters From Baghdad. Photo courtesy of Between The Rivers Productions (c)
Did you ever wonder how the Middle East got to be the way it is? Many experts believe part of the answer to some of the region’s modern tensions lies in how national boundaries were drawn by European colonial powers after World War I. That a British woman played a role in the shaping of the boundaries of the Middle East – Iraq in particular – is a little known fact. That woman, Gertrude Bell, is the focus of the documentary Letters From Baghdad.
In a time when women were rarely independent, the strong-willed and aristocratic Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was a unique exception, traveling alone to the Middle East, and then immersing herself in the culture and history of the region,...
Did you ever wonder how the Middle East got to be the way it is? Many experts believe part of the answer to some of the region’s modern tensions lies in how national boundaries were drawn by European colonial powers after World War I. That a British woman played a role in the shaping of the boundaries of the Middle East – Iraq in particular – is a little known fact. That woman, Gertrude Bell, is the focus of the documentary Letters From Baghdad.
In a time when women were rarely independent, the strong-willed and aristocratic Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was a unique exception, traveling alone to the Middle East, and then immersing herself in the culture and history of the region,...
- 6/30/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Wonder Woman” captured the weekend zeitgeist with reviews as good as any new adult-appeal specialized opener — and gobbled up potential audience. But that’s not the sole reason the specialty box office went to hell this weekend.
“Churchill” (Cohen), with the pedigree of an arthouse crossover winner, went nationally in top theaters but failed to capture more than desultory business. A trio of niche releases showed some mid-level interest in New York and Los Angeles — “The Exception”(A24), “Letters from Baghdad” (Vitagraph), and “Band Aid”(IFC) — but none looks likely to cross over beyond the big-city arthouse market.
The scariest weekend news: the total lack of response to Ken Loach’s Cannes 2016 Palme d’Or-winner “I, Daniel Blake.” While it’s been a long wait after a year-end qualifying run, it’s shocking that the well-reviewed BAFTA-winner met with near total disinterest.
Last weekend’s top opener “Long Strange Trip...
“Churchill” (Cohen), with the pedigree of an arthouse crossover winner, went nationally in top theaters but failed to capture more than desultory business. A trio of niche releases showed some mid-level interest in New York and Los Angeles — “The Exception”(A24), “Letters from Baghdad” (Vitagraph), and “Band Aid”(IFC) — but none looks likely to cross over beyond the big-city arthouse market.
The scariest weekend news: the total lack of response to Ken Loach’s Cannes 2016 Palme d’Or-winner “I, Daniel Blake.” While it’s been a long wait after a year-end qualifying run, it’s shocking that the well-reviewed BAFTA-winner met with near total disinterest.
Last weekend’s top opener “Long Strange Trip...
- 6/4/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
In a busy weekend of new Specialty releases, A24's The Exception and IFC Films' Band Aid topped out with the highest per theater averages, while documentary Letters From Baghdad followed fairly closely behind. Nothing proved spectacular, even though about a dozen new limited release titles gave audiences plenty of options. Period drama The Exception starring Christopher Plummer grossed $23,337 in two locations, while Band Aid by Zoe Lister-Jones took in $31,500 from three…...
- 6/4/2017
- Deadline
Wonder Woman exceeded all expectations this weekend, delivering an impressive $100 million opening, the largest opening for a female-directed feature, vastly out-performing the previous record holder Fifty Shades of Grey, which debuted with $85.1 million back in 2015. Meanwhile, Fox's release of the DreamWorks Animation feature Captain Underpants came up a little short of Mojo's forecast while mildly outperforming the studio's modest expectations. Overall, the weekend dramatically outperformed the post-holiday weekend from 2016 by a massive 38% as the top twelve delivered a combined $176 million. At the top, Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot in the title role, went into the weekend boasting the best reviews out of the four films that have been released in the DC Extended Universe so far and the critical opinion definitely aided the film's awareness as the buzz only continued to grow throughout the week. Following an impressive $38.76 million Friday that buzz was no longer...
- 6/4/2017
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Wonder women Thelma Schoonmaker and Tilda Swinton are executive producers of Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum's Letters From Baghdad Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On Friday, June 2, the opening night for Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman (starring Gal Gadot) and Jonathan Teplitzky's Churchill (with Brian Cox as Winston Churchill, Miranda Richardson as Clementine Churchill, and John Slattery as Dwight Eisenhower), Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum's Letters From Baghdad with Tilda Swinton as the voice of Gertrude Bell, a real Wonder Woman, had a sold out screening, discussion and audience Q&A at the Angelika Film Center in New York.
Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's Letters From Baghdad post-screening discussion with Anne-Katrin Titze at the Angelika Film Center Photo: Carole Levy
From being confronted by Te Lawrence to being an Ottoman Empire concern, Gertrude Bell overcame a remarkable number of barriers put in front of her and she did so on her own terms.
On Friday, June 2, the opening night for Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman (starring Gal Gadot) and Jonathan Teplitzky's Churchill (with Brian Cox as Winston Churchill, Miranda Richardson as Clementine Churchill, and John Slattery as Dwight Eisenhower), Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum's Letters From Baghdad with Tilda Swinton as the voice of Gertrude Bell, a real Wonder Woman, had a sold out screening, discussion and audience Q&A at the Angelika Film Center in New York.
Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's Letters From Baghdad post-screening discussion with Anne-Katrin Titze at the Angelika Film Center Photo: Carole Levy
From being confronted by Te Lawrence to being an Ottoman Empire concern, Gertrude Bell overcame a remarkable number of barriers put in front of her and she did so on her own terms.
- 6/4/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Gertrude Bell is likely the most accomplished foreign diplomat you’ve never heard of. “Letters From Baghdad” is not a documentary about the current state of the Middle East but rather a look at its past, particularly the role Bell played in helping to shape it. Bell was born in England in 1868, and as a young woman she cultivated hobbies traditionally enjoyed by the boys, such as mountain climbing, photography and archaeology. Eventually, she had the urge to wander, with her travels taking her from Germany to Egypt. She traveled and lived like the locals, learning native languages and customs.
- 6/2/2017
- by Tricia Olszewski
- The Wrap
You have to feel sorry for Gertrude Bell, at least cinematically. The famed British adventurer-writer who figured so prominently in her country's interactions in the Middle East first suffered the indignity of Werner Herzog's flop feature Queen of the Desert in which she was portrayed by Nicole Kidman. Now she's the subject of Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum's documentary, whose muddled storytelling and ineffective cinematic techniques squander rich archival material. Subtitled The Untold Story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq (inaccurately, since the film delves into many other aspects of Bell's storied life), Letters From Baghdad represents a sadly missed opportunity.
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- 6/1/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tilda Swinton is the voice of Gertrude Bell in the documentary Letters From Baghdad.
The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive clip of the doc has Swinton narrating a note from the British spy and explorer. Swinton is also an executive producer of the film, along with Thelma Schoonmaker and Ruedi Gerber.
Directed by Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum, Letters From Baghdad tells the story of Bell, who came to play a major role in establishing the modern state of Iraq. She wielded an enormous amount of power for a woman of her era. Among her accomplishments was the creation of the Iraq Museum, which was infamously ransacked during the...
The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive clip of the doc has Swinton narrating a note from the British spy and explorer. Swinton is also an executive producer of the film, along with Thelma Schoonmaker and Ruedi Gerber.
Directed by Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum, Letters From Baghdad tells the story of Bell, who came to play a major role in establishing the modern state of Iraq. She wielded an enormous amount of power for a woman of her era. Among her accomplishments was the creation of the Iraq Museum, which was infamously ransacked during the...
- 5/31/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MaryAnn’s quick take… This may be Werner Herzog’s most conventional film, but its mostly untold true story knows what it means for a woman to choose a life of adventure and intellect. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Have you heard that there is a new movie, a sweeping biopic of a major historical figure, written and directed by Werner Herzog, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, and Robert Pattinson? Seems like kind of a big deal, doesn’t it? Seems like the kind of movie you’d hear a lot about. Instead, Queen of the Desert has been sitting on a shelf since it debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015 — more than two years ago — because… why? Why did it just now get a...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Have you heard that there is a new movie, a sweeping biopic of a major historical figure, written and directed by Werner Herzog, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, and Robert Pattinson? Seems like kind of a big deal, doesn’t it? Seems like the kind of movie you’d hear a lot about. Instead, Queen of the Desert has been sitting on a shelf since it debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015 — more than two years ago — because… why? Why did it just now get a...
- 4/26/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… One of the most cinematically beautiful documentaries ever is a phenomenal portrait of a shamefully forgotten woman who helped shape political history. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If there was any justice in the world, T.E. Lawrence — aka Lawrence of Arabia — would be known as “the male Gertrude Bell,” instead of Bell being spoken of, when she is spoken of at all, as “the female Lawrence of Arabia.” Lawrence, 20 years her junior, was barely out of diapers when Bell first journeyed from England to the Middle East, and by the time he was traipsing around the desert, he was using intelligence on the local landscape — political and well as geographical — that she had gathered by living and working among the Arab tribes and gaining their enormous respect.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If there was any justice in the world, T.E. Lawrence — aka Lawrence of Arabia — would be known as “the male Gertrude Bell,” instead of Bell being spoken of, when she is spoken of at all, as “the female Lawrence of Arabia.” Lawrence, 20 years her junior, was barely out of diapers when Bell first journeyed from England to the Middle East, and by the time he was traipsing around the desert, he was using intelligence on the local landscape — political and well as geographical — that she had gathered by living and working among the Arab tribes and gaining their enormous respect.
- 4/21/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Author: Amanda Carnac
Many Western names are associated with the history of the Middle East, such as Lawrence of Arabia, but few will have heard of the British explorer, diplomat and spy Gertrude Bell who is the one of very few remembered today with any fondness.
Thankfully filmmakers Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbuhl have chosen to bring her extraordinary story to light using the letters she wrote throughout her life, beautifully narrated by actress Tilda Swindon. It is hard to be brief when listing her achievements but ultimately Bell played an important hand in history when she was given the incendiary task of creating Iraq from the area formerly known as Mesopotamia. The film is startlingly pertinent considering the current state of Iraq and Syria today as there has been speculation that the borders of these countries may need to be redrawn.
Letters From Baghdad gives an honest, intimate insight...
Many Western names are associated with the history of the Middle East, such as Lawrence of Arabia, but few will have heard of the British explorer, diplomat and spy Gertrude Bell who is the one of very few remembered today with any fondness.
Thankfully filmmakers Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbuhl have chosen to bring her extraordinary story to light using the letters she wrote throughout her life, beautifully narrated by actress Tilda Swindon. It is hard to be brief when listing her achievements but ultimately Bell played an important hand in history when she was given the incendiary task of creating Iraq from the area formerly known as Mesopotamia. The film is startlingly pertinent considering the current state of Iraq and Syria today as there has been speculation that the borders of these countries may need to be redrawn.
Letters From Baghdad gives an honest, intimate insight...
- 4/19/2017
- by Amanda Carnac
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tinker Bell fan Brianna Perez meets Joseph Feingold in Joe's Violin
In my conversation at Radical Media with Kahane Cooperman, director of this year's Oscar-nominated Joe's Violin, she explained how Doc NYC Executive Director Raphaela Neihausen, Richard Linklater and Dazed And Confused, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, and Letters From Baghdad co-director Zeva Oelbaum supported bringing to the screen the moving story of Holocaust survivor Joseph Feingold and young musician Brianna Perez from the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls.
On being with Joseph Feingold: "I learned in that hour that the violin had a poignant story attached to it and also that he was a capable storyteller."
When an object changes hands, commonly its story dies. We might speculate about the previous owner of a piece of vintage jewelry that catches our eye, or wonder who sat in an antique chair 100 years ago. Joe's Violin was born...
In my conversation at Radical Media with Kahane Cooperman, director of this year's Oscar-nominated Joe's Violin, she explained how Doc NYC Executive Director Raphaela Neihausen, Richard Linklater and Dazed And Confused, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, and Letters From Baghdad co-director Zeva Oelbaum supported bringing to the screen the moving story of Holocaust survivor Joseph Feingold and young musician Brianna Perez from the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls.
On being with Joseph Feingold: "I learned in that hour that the violin had a poignant story attached to it and also that he was a capable storyteller."
When an object changes hands, commonly its story dies. We might speculate about the previous owner of a piece of vintage jewelry that catches our eye, or wonder who sat in an antique chair 100 years ago. Joe's Violin was born...
- 4/12/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Letters From Baghdad directors Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum: "In Tilda Swinton's voice, exactly - this dialogue becomes very immediate." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On the afternoon following the Presidential election and the day before Doc NYC kicks off, Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum met with me for a conversation on their terrific documentary on Gertrude Bell, Letters From Baghdad. The discussion led us to the social circles of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Winston Churchill and Te Lawrence with Bell in the desert, Whirling Dervishes, a maypole dance, Dorothy Arzner's Christopher Strong starring Katharine Hepburn, Werner Herzog's Queen Of The Desert with Nicole Kidman, and Ridley Scott's interest in the Desert Queen, executive producer Thelma Schoonmaker, finding the right tone, costume designer Allison Wyldeck, and Ahead Of Time: The Extraordinary Journey Of Ruth Gruber.
"It was always a balance between history and information and getting...
On the afternoon following the Presidential election and the day before Doc NYC kicks off, Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum met with me for a conversation on their terrific documentary on Gertrude Bell, Letters From Baghdad. The discussion led us to the social circles of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Winston Churchill and Te Lawrence with Bell in the desert, Whirling Dervishes, a maypole dance, Dorothy Arzner's Christopher Strong starring Katharine Hepburn, Werner Herzog's Queen Of The Desert with Nicole Kidman, and Ridley Scott's interest in the Desert Queen, executive producer Thelma Schoonmaker, finding the right tone, costume designer Allison Wyldeck, and Ahead Of Time: The Extraordinary Journey Of Ruth Gruber.
"It was always a balance between history and information and getting...
- 11/11/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Tilda Swinton flawlessly communicates Gertrude Bell in Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's astute Letters From Baghdad Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life with Lynch's memories including his Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story production designer Jack Fisk; Claire Simon's Le Concours (The Graduation) on the admission process to enter La Fémis; Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game which takes off from Simon Trevor's wake-up call White Gold; Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's Letters From Baghdad, executive produced by Martin Scorsese's favourite editor Thelma Schoonmaker with Tilda Swinton are four more highlights of this year's Doc NYC.
David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch: The Art Life
Although the world of his childhood was no larger than two blocks, it contained it all. There is the traumatic, "otherworldly" encounter with...
Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life with Lynch's memories including his Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story production designer Jack Fisk; Claire Simon's Le Concours (The Graduation) on the admission process to enter La Fémis; Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game which takes off from Simon Trevor's wake-up call White Gold; Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl's Letters From Baghdad, executive produced by Martin Scorsese's favourite editor Thelma Schoonmaker with Tilda Swinton are four more highlights of this year's Doc NYC.
David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch: The Art Life
Although the world of his childhood was no larger than two blocks, it contained it all. There is the traumatic, "otherworldly" encounter with...
- 11/9/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Set to enjoy its North American premiere at Doc NYC this coming Saturday, November 12, Letters From Baghdad is a documentary about Gertrude Bell, who became, arguably, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in the days after World War I. Bell left behind a treasure trove of letters that provide insight into her thinking and also her experiences during that period. In the documentary, Tilda Swinton voices Bell; other actors and actresses dramatize more people from that time period, who comment on Bell and events in the Middle East. Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl directed. More than 500 never-before-seen film clips have been assembled from 25 archives from around the world. Here's an excerpt from the official verbiage: The voices of Bell and...
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- 11/7/2016
- Screen Anarchy
From the creators of “Taken,” and “The Equalizer” comes “Renegades,” story about a team of Navy SEALs on assignment who make a grand discovery. Directed by Steven Quale and written by Luc Besson and Richard Wenk, EuropaCorp has released a new trailer for the action-packed film, which you can check out below.
Starring J.K. Simmons and Sullivan Stapleton, the story is set in 1995 Sarajevo and follows a group of Navy Seals who, in order to help the locals, plan to steal a long-lost collection of Nazi-gold that they found at the bottom of a Bosnian lake. Sylvia Hoeks, Ewen Bremner, Diarmaid Murtagh and Charlie Bewley co-star.
The new sneak peek features the crew executing their plan, then having headhunters actively searching to kill them. Explosions, fights and big action-sequences entail.
Read More: ‘Letters From Baghdad’ Exclusive Trailer: Tilda Swinton Voices British Luminary Gertrude Bell In New Documentary
Director Quale’s...
Starring J.K. Simmons and Sullivan Stapleton, the story is set in 1995 Sarajevo and follows a group of Navy Seals who, in order to help the locals, plan to steal a long-lost collection of Nazi-gold that they found at the bottom of a Bosnian lake. Sylvia Hoeks, Ewen Bremner, Diarmaid Murtagh and Charlie Bewley co-star.
The new sneak peek features the crew executing their plan, then having headhunters actively searching to kill them. Explosions, fights and big action-sequences entail.
Read More: ‘Letters From Baghdad’ Exclusive Trailer: Tilda Swinton Voices British Luminary Gertrude Bell In New Documentary
Director Quale’s...
- 11/4/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
At this point, none of Tilda Swinton’s acting choices should surprise her fans. The British actress loves roles that are rich, weird and diverse. Still, it was a bit of a shock when Swinton signed on for Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” last year as The Ancient One, the mystical teacher who helps Benedict Cumberbatch’s sorcerer superhero come to grips with his powers. Swinton chose to join the McU because, she said, it would get movie-goers to do the thing she loves most: See films in the theater.
“I’m kind of a cinema nerd,” Swinton told IndieWire in a recent interview. “And anybody who is doing what Marvel’s doing to encourage people to get away from their large screens and their laptops and into big theaters and see cinema in a cinematic experience, it’s gonna have my vote.”
Read More: Tilda Swinton: ‘Doctor Strange’ Whitewashing...
“I’m kind of a cinema nerd,” Swinton told IndieWire in a recent interview. “And anybody who is doing what Marvel’s doing to encourage people to get away from their large screens and their laptops and into big theaters and see cinema in a cinematic experience, it’s gonna have my vote.”
Read More: Tilda Swinton: ‘Doctor Strange’ Whitewashing...
- 11/4/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Though T.E. Lawrence is often considered the person who most affected the modern Middle East, historians point to Gertrude Bell, the British explorer, spy and political powerhouse who was recruited by British Military Intelligence to shape Mesopotamia after World War I, and eventually drew the borders of Iraq. A new documentary “Letters From Baghdad” tells Bell’s story in her own words using Bell’s own letters, alongside archival films and photos, featuring actress Tilda Swinton as the voice of Bell. Watch an exclusive trailer for the film below.
Read More: Project of the Day: ‘Letters From Baghdad’
Directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, the film features astonishing never-before-seen films clips from 25 archives around the world, which tells its own story contrary to popular ideas about Mesopotamia.
“Much of what we found was buried in reels that had been in storage for more than half a century,” says Oelbaum.
Read More: Project of the Day: ‘Letters From Baghdad’
Directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, the film features astonishing never-before-seen films clips from 25 archives around the world, which tells its own story contrary to popular ideas about Mesopotamia.
“Much of what we found was buried in reels that had been in storage for more than half a century,” says Oelbaum.
- 11/3/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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