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Josephine Decker
Josephine Decker (born April 2, 1981) is an American actress, filmmaker, and performance artist. As of 2020 she has directed four experimental feature films: the psychological thriller '' Butter on the Latch'' (2013), the erotic thriller '' Thou Wast Mild and Lovely'' (2014), the coming-of-age drama ''Madeline's Madeline'' (2018), the semi-biographical thriller ''Shirley'' (2020), and the coming-of-age drama ''The Sky is Everywhere'' (2022). She also co-directed the documentary '' Bi the Way'' (2008) with Brittany Blockman. Early life Decker was raised in Texas. She graduated from Highland Park High School and Princeton University. As a child, she was interested in writing and playing the piano, and dreamed of being a photographer for ''National Geographic''. The film that inspired her to become a filmmaker was ''Monsters, Inc.'' Career Film Decker produced and directed her first short film, ''Naked Princeton'', in 2005. In 2008, Decker co-directed the documentary '' Bi the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. It is one of the highest-ranked universities in the world. The institution moved to Newark, New Jersey, Newark in 1747, and then to the current site nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University. It is a member of the Ivy League. The university is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has an endowment of $37.7 billion, the largest List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment, endowment per student in the United States. Princeton provides undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate education, graduate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiewire
IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "to include all aspects of Hollywood and the expanding universes of TV and streaming." IndieWire is part of Penske Media. History The original IndieWire newsletter launched on July 15, 1996, billing itself as "the daily news service for independent film." Following in the footsteps of various web- and AOL-based editorial ventures, IndieWire was launched as a free daily email publication in the summer of 1996 by New York- and Los Angeles-based filmmakers and writers Eugene Hernandez, Mark Rabinowitz, Cheri Barner, Roberto A. Quezada, and Mark L. Feinsod. Initially distributed to a few hundred subscribers, the readership grew rapidly, passing 6,000 in late 1997. In January 1997, IndieWire made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival to begin their coverage o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Cone
Stephen Cone (born August 10, 1980) is an American filmmaker who has received early career retrospectives on the Criterion Channel, MUBI and at the Museum of the Moving Image, Berlin's Unknown Pleasures Festival and Manchester's Bigger Than Life. . Early life Cone was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in South Carolina. He moved to Chicago in 2004 and, in his words, taught himself to make movies "by making movies." Career In 2006, Cone wrote, produced, and directed his first short film ''Church Story'' with actors Isabel Liss, Bill McGough, and Arian Moayed. In 2007, Cone followed with the short film ''Young Wives''. His medium-length film, a metaphysical drama called ''The Christians'', was completed in 2008 and featured performances by J. Kingsford Goode, Bill McGough, Arian Moayed, Sadie Rogers, Laurel Schroeder, Krissy Shields, and Robert Belushi, oldest son of actor Jim Belushi. Cone's next feature film, the full-length ''In Memoriam'', released in 2011, follows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loves Her Gun
Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, doing business as Love's (or stylized as Loves), is an American family-owned chain of more than 500 truck stop and convenience stores in 41 states in the United States. The company is privately owned and headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Love's ranked No. 17 on the 2019 Forbes list of America's largest private companies. Love's has two primary kinds of stores: country stores and travel stops. Country stores are fueling stations with a convenience store attached. The larger travel stops are located along highways and offer additional amenities such as food from restaurant chains such as Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Bojangles (restaurant), Bojangles, Burger King, Chester's International, Chester's, Dairy Queen, Del Taco, Dunkin' Donuts, Dunkin', Friendly's, Godfather's Pizza, Green Burrito, McDonald's, Taco John's, Subway (restaurant), Subway, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Hardee’s/Carls Jr., trucking supplies, showers and RV dump stations. Love's ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Morning Mystery
''Saturday Morning Mystery'' (originally released as ''Saturday Morning Massacre'') is a 2012 independent horror film by Spencer Parsons that premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival. The movie is a dark parody/spoof of the Scooby-Doo cartoon series. Parsons cited ''Re-Animator'' and '' Basket Case'' as inspirations for the film. ''Saturday Morning Mystery'' had a projected video on demand release date of July 17, 2013 and a limited theatrical release date of August 9, 2013. The movie was released to DVD on August 20, 2013. Plot The brainy Nancy (Ashley Rae Spillers) is part of a financially destitute paranormal debunking team composed of her best friend Gwen (Josephine Decker), Gwen’s boyfriend Chad (Adam Tate), and Nancy’s ex-boyfriend Floyd (Jonny Mars). After a particularly disastrous paranormal investigation ends with the group ruining a police investigation, Nancy is keen to take a job debunking the Kyser mansion for a bank employee who wants to sell the property. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard's Wedding
''Richard's Wedding'' is a 2012 comedy/drama film written, edited, and directed by Onur Tukel. Among the film's ensemble cast are actors Josephine Decker, Randy Gambill, Lawrence Michael Levine, Jennifer Prediger, and Tukel himself. The film premiered at the 2012 Sarasota Film Festival. Cast *Thomas J. Buchmueller as Simon *Josephine Decker as Phoebe * Dustin Guy Defa as Taco *Jamie Dobie as Deedee *Randy Gambill as Louis *Heddy Lahmann as Amy *Lawrence Michael Levine as Richard *Theresa Lu as Lyndsey *Oona Mekas as Kristin * Jennifer Prediger as Alex *Darrill Rosen as Darrill Rosen *Adam Schartoff as Andrew *Onur Tukel as Tuna Release Media The film was released on VOD through Devolver Digital. Reception Critical response The film received a generally mixed response from critics. David DeWitt of ''The New York Times'' called the film "a slice of the John Cassavetes, John Sayles and Richard Linklater life" and added "''Richard’s Wedding'' is modest in umpteen ways, and if yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onur Tukel
Onur Tukel (born August 5, 1972) is a Turkish-American actor, painter, and filmmaker. A notable figure in the New York City independent film community, Tukel's films often deal with issues of gender and relationships. Career In 1997, Tukel wrote and directed his first feature film ''House of Pancakes''. His subsequent film, the vampire drama ''Drawing Blood'', was completed in 1999. In a 2014 interview with ''Entertainment Weekly'', Tukel recalled that ''Drawing Blood'' was "the only time emade money on a movie." His next film, the comedy drama ''Ding-a-ling-Less'', was completed in 2001. In 2005, Tukel (credited as Sergio Lapel) also wrote and directed the comedy ''The Pigs'' about a group of middle age men who arrange to have their wives murdered. In 2012, Tukel wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the comedy drama film ''Richard's Wedding'', which featured such other independent filmmakers as Josephine Decker, Lawrence Michael Levine, and Jennifer Prediger. Despite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncle Kent
''Uncle Kent'' is a 2011 American film directed by Joe Swanberg and written by Kent Osborne and Swanberg. The film stars Osborne in the titular role of Kent, and Jennifer Prediger, Josephine Decker, Kevin Bewersdof, and Swanberg. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released through video on demand, the same day on January 21, 2011. Synopsis Kent Osborne is a forty-year-old single animator who meets Kate, a New York journalist, through Chatroulette. Kate accepts Kent's invitation to visit L.A. for the weekend. Kate reveals that her heart belongs to another man. Frustrated, Kent attempts to make sense of the situation. Cast * Kent Osborne as Kent * Jennifer Prediger as Kate * Josephine Decker as Josephine * Joe Swanberg as Joe * Kevin Bewersdorf as Kev Release on December 2, 2010, it was announced IFC Films had acquired all distribution rights to the film. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released through video on demand on January 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinelicious Pics
Cinelicious Pics is a distribution wing of the post-production company Cinelicious, launched by Paul Korver and Dennis Bartok, former American Cinematheque head programmer. The company was designed to distribute new U.S. and foreign independent features and documentaries. In November 2014, the company announced it would release Eiichi Yamamoto's cult-classic ''Kanashimi no Belladonna'' (''Belladonna of Sadness'') as its first restoration and re-release, with restoration work completed in-house. ''LA Weekly'' announced Cinelicious Pics as Best Indie Film Distributor of 2015. Releases * Dark Night, 2016 -Directed by Tim Sutton * ''Giuseppe Makes a Movie'' – directed by Adam Rifkin (U.S. 2014) * ''Thou Wast Mild and Lovely'' – directed by Josephine Decker (U.S. 2014) * '' Butter on the Latch'' – directed by Josephine Decker (U.S. 2014) * ''Gangs of Wasseypur'' – directed by Anurag Kashyap (India 2013) * ''Elektro Moskva'' – directed by Elena Tikhonova and Dominik Sprit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video On Demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of over-the-air programming was the most common form of media distribution. As Internet and IPTV technologies continued to develop in the 1990s, consumers began to gravitate towards non-traditional modes of content consumption, which culminated in the arrival of VOD on televisions and personal computers. Unlike broadcast television, VOD systems initially required each user to have an Internet connection with considerable bandwidth to access each system's content. In 2000, the Fraunhofer Institute IIS developed the JPEG2000 codec, which enabled the distribution of movies via Digital Cinema Packages. This technology has since expanded its services from feature-film productions to include broadcast television programmes and has led to lower bandw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, visual artist and actor. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. In 2007, a panel of critics convened by ''The Guardian'' announced that "after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important film-maker of the current era", while AllMovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking". His work led to him being labeled "the first populist surrealist" by film critic Pauline Kael. Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film, the surrealist ''Eraserhead'' (1977), became a success on the midnight movie circuit, and he followed that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, Film producer, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul." Some of his most acclaimed work includes ''The Seventh Seal'' (1957), ''Wild Strawberries (film), Wild Strawberries'' (1957), ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960), ''Through a Glass Darkly (film), Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), ''Persona (1966 film), Persona'' (1966), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1982). Bergman directed more than 60 films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television screenings, most of which he also wrote. His theatrical career continued in parallel and included periods as Leading Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and of the Residenztheater in Munich. He directed more than 170 plays. He forged a creativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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