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Greenwich Entertainment
Greenwich Entertainment, founded in 2017, is an independent film distribution company specializing in distinctive, theatrical-quality narrative and documentary features. The company released Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s Academy Award-Winning Documentary ''Free Solo,'' which grossed over $17M at the US box office, Andrew Slater’s ''Echo in the Canyon,'' which opened to the highest per-theater-average of any documentary in 2019, and '' Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice'' by Academy Award-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Greenwich is led by a management team that has overseen more than 150 theatrical releases generating over $100 million at the US box office, garnering multiple Academy Award nominations and 2 Academy Award wins. Filmography {, class="wikitable" , + !Film !Release date , - , ''Itzhak'' , March 9, 2018 , - , ''Mountain'' , May 11, 2018 , - , ''Westwood'' , June 8, 2018 , - , ''Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood'' , July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrante Fever
''Ferrante Fever'' is a documentary film about Italian writer Elena Ferrante, directed by Giacomo Durzi. Reception On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 47% based on 15 reviews, with an average rating of 4.5/10. According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 52 out of 100 based on 6 critics, the film received "mixed or average reviews". Leslie Felperin of ''The Guardian'' called it an "enticing portrayal". Frank Scheck of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' wrote, "''Ferrante Fever'' delivers a fan-friendly examination of the novelist and her works, and what it lacks in depth it more than makes up for with enthusiasm". ''The Times''s chief film critic Kevin Maher panned the film in his 1-star review, writing, "The overall impression is of a clueless film toadying up to an uninterested novelist". Robert Abele of the ''Los Angeles Times'' noticed that the film was "unlikely to satisfy your literary curiosity". Andrew Lapin of NPR criticized the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassins (2020 Film)
''Assassins'' is a 2020 American documentary film, directed and produced by Ryan White. It talks about the assassination of Kim Jong-nam and the two assassins who were tricked. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020. It was released on December 11, 2020 by Greenwich Entertainment. Synopsis The film follows the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, as he is assassinated by two young women who were tricked and thought they were participating in a prank show. Release The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020. Shortly after, Magnolia Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film. Due to the subject matter, the film struggled to find distribution, with Magnolia opting to release the film internationally instead, and Hulu acquiring rights to the film before dropping it. In September 2020, Greenwich Entertainment acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. It was released on December 11, 2020. In June 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie (2019 Film)
''Billie'' is a 2019 documentary film about Billie Holiday, written and directed by British filmmaker James Erskine. The film is based around interviews recorded on audio cassettes through the 1970s by Linda Lipnack Kuehl, researching a book on Holiday that was never completed because of Kuehl's death in 1978: her body was found on a Washington D.C. street, and she was deemed to have died by suicide, although that supposition is disputed by her family. Erskine's documentary "is about both Holiday — as told through the voices of people who knew her — and Kuehl's obsession with crafting her biography." Kuehl's interviews were with friends, family members, band members, peers from 1930s Harlem, piano players, psychiatrists and a pimp. Prominent figures from the jazz world who contributed recollections include Count Basie, Charles Mingus, Jo Jones and Sylvia Syms. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September 2019. Reception In ''The Guardian'', the film was ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When In Doubt, Do Something
When may refer to: * When?, one of the Five Ws, questions used in journalism * WHEN (AM), an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station in Syracuse, New York * WHEN-TV, the former call letters of TV station WTVH in Syracuse, New York Music * When (band), a musical project of Norwegian artist Lars Pedersen * When! Records, a UK record label whose artists include Rob Overseer Albums * ''When'' (album), a 2001 album by Vincent Gallo Songs * "When" (Amanda Lear song), 1980 * "When" (The Kalin Twins song), 1958 * "When" (Red Vincent Hurley song), the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 * "When" (Shania Twain song), 1998 * "When", by Megadeth from '' The World Needs a Hero'' * "When", by Opeth from '' My Arms, Your Hearse'' * "When", by Perry Como * "When?", by Spirit from ''Spirit of '76'', 1975 * "When", by Taproot from ''Welcome'', 2002 * "When", by Dodie Clark Dorothy Miranda Clark (born 11 April 1995), known mononymously as Dodie (stylised dodie), is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert One (film)
''Desert One'' is an 2019 American documentary film directed and produced by Barbara Kopple. It follows Operation Eagle Claw, a mission that was an attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis by rescuing 52 embassy staff held hostage. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2019. It was released on August 21, 2020, by Greenwich Entertainment. Synopsis The film follows Operation Eagle Claw, a mission that was an attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis by rescuing 52 embassy staff held hostage at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Ted Koppel, David Aaron, Mahmoud Abedini, Robert Gates, Wade Ishimoto, John Limbert, and former hostage-takers and hostages appear in the film. Release The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2019. It also screened at DOC NYC on November 8, 2019, and the AFI Fest on November 18, 2019. In April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If You Could Read My Mind
"If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. Lightfoot wrote the lyrics while he was reflecting on his own divorce. It reached 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart on commercial release in 1970 and charted in several other countries on international release in 1971. Theme Lightfoot cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics. They came to him as he was sitting in a vacant Toronto house one summer. The song compares events in his relationship to a ghost movie and a paperback romance novel. The lyrics include "I don't know where we went wrong. But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back." At the request of his daughter Ingrid, he performed the lyrics with a slight change: The line "I'm just trying to understand the feelings that you lack" is altered to "I'm just trying to understand the feelings that we lack." Lightfoot said in an interview that the difficulty with writing songs inspired by personal stories is that there is not alway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deerskin (film)
''Deerskin'' (french: Le Daim, lit=The Deer) is a 2019 French black comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. It stars Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel. In the film, Georges (Dujardin) becomes obssessive after purchasing a fringed deerskin jacket. It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section on 15 May 2019. It was released in France on 19 June 2019 by Diaphana Distribution. Plot Georges, 44, buys a vintage fringed deerskin motorcycle jacket for €7,500 from an older man who lives in the countryside. The seller also gives him a digital camcorder, for which he has no use. After buying the jacket, Georges checks into a small hotel in a nearby mountainside village. Having spent all his money on the jacket, he leaves his wedding ring as collateral with the receptionist. He meets a local bartender, a young woman named Denise, and says he is a filmmaker in town on a shoot. Denise is an amateur editor and takes interest. Georges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Nature (2019 Film)
''Human Nature'' is a 2019 documentary film directed by Adam Bolt and written by Adam Bolt and Regina Sobel. Producers of the film include Greg Boustead, Elliot Kirschner and Dan Rather. The film describes the gene editing process of CRISPR (an acronym for "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats"), and premiered in Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest film conference and festival on March 10, 2019. Synopsis ''Human Nature'' is a film documentary which presents an in-depth description of the gene editing process of CRISPR, and its possible implications. The film includes the perspective of the scientists who invented the process, and of the genetic engineers who are applying the process. The CRISPR process, a 2013 breakthrough in biology, provides a way of controlling the basic genetic processes of life. In addition, the film documentary considers several relevant questions including, How will this new gene-editing ability change our relationship wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Booksellers
''The Booksellers'' is a 2019 American documentary film that was directed, edited, and produced by D.W. Young. It was executive produced by Parker Posey, who also provides narration in the film. The film explores the world of antiquarian and rare book dealers and their bookstores. It focuses primarily on booksellers in New York City, including Adina Cohen, Naomi Hample and Judith Lowry, the three sisters of the Argosy Book Store; Stephen Massey, founder of Christie’s NY Book Department; and Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the Strand Bookstore. Other prominent people featured in the film include Fran Lebowitz, Gay Talese, Justin Croft, Zack Hample, Susan Orlean, William S. Reese, A. S. W. Rosenbach Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (July 22, 1876 – July 1, 1952) was an American collector, scholar, and seller of rare books and manuscripts. In London, where he frequently attended the auctions at Sotheby's, he was known as "The Terror of the Aucti ..., Jay S. Walker, and Kevin Young (po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incitement (film)
''Incitement'' ( he, ימים נוראים, lit=Terrible Days) is a 2019 Israeli thriller film directed by Yaron Zilberman. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was written by Ron Leshem alongside Zilberman, and Yair Hizmi. At the film's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the screening was halted and the audience had to evacuate because of a security threat. The screening resumed when the cinema showing the film was determined to be safe. It received the 2019 Ophir Award for Best Picture and was selected as the Israeli entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. Plot A profile of Yigal Amir in the year leading up to his assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Cast * Yehuda Nahari Halevi as Yigal Amir * Amitai Yaish as Shlomo Amir * Anat Ravnitzki as Geula Amir * Yoav Levi as Hagai Amir * Daniella Kertesz as Nava * Sivan Mast as Margalit Har-Shefi * Dolev O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizen K
''Citizen K'' is a 2019 documentary film about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, written and directed by Alex Gibney. It is a film about post-Soviet Russia featuring Khodorkovsky, Anton Drel, Maria Logan, Alexei Navalny, Tatyana Lysova, Leonid Nevzlin, Igor Malashenko and Derk Sauer. ''Citizen K'' was financed by Amazon. It had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival and was part of the official selection at Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. , of the reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average score of . The website's critics consensus reads: "''Citizen K'' sees documentarian Alex Gibney training his sights on post-Soviet Russia, with engrossing -- and unsettling -- results." Gibney received a nomination at the 72nd Writers Guild of America Awards The 72nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best writing in film, television and radio of 2019. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
