New York City Cinema from the Art House to the Red Carpet
The Reeler feels fall in New York. Tamara Jenkins, director of The Savages talks about her bulletproof cast and Karen Wilson reviews Margot at the Wedding and Redacted. Enjoy!
This week ReelerTV provides a glimpse into the upcoming 45th New York Film Festival. "The Warriors", Coney Island, Harvey Weinstein and “Padre Nuestra” all make the news. We sit down with Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, co-stars of Wes Anderson’s latest film, “The Darjeeling Limited.” Lisa Rosman from Flavorpill joins us in the lobby to talk about the grown-up side of Wes Anderson, how Ira Sachs blew it, the Cohen Brothers’ success and what’s wrong with Noah Baumbach. Enjoy!
In this final installment of ReelerTV from Toronto, we talk with filmmaking legend, Peter Bogdanovich who's in Toronto to introduce John Ford’s film, “Bucking Broadway.” The recently found negative has been restored and a brand new print has been struck. Karina wraps up the Spout reviews with her Toronto regrets and a few thoughts on “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.” ReelerTV will return to it’s usual weekly format beginning on Wednesday.
ReelerTV continues its coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival. In today's special episode we have an interview with legendary media personality and writer, Phil Donahue. He is in Toronto with the documentary, "Body of War" that he co-directed with Ellen Spiro. The film will have its world premiere tonight on September 11th, the day that moved Iraq war veteran and subject of "Body of War", Tomas Young to enlist in the Army in the first place. Karina reviews another one of the Iraq-...
In this episode ReelerTV goes retro in black and white in tribute to the forthcoming biopic about Joy Division singer, Ian Curtis. The Reeler talks to legendary rock photographer turned director, Anton Corbijn about the making of “Control” and Karina Longworth wraps it up with her thoughts on the atypical rock film. Enjoy!
MUSIC! In the latest daily installment of ReelerTV's coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival, we interview Scott Hicks. He's having his world premiere of his documentary, "Glass - a portrait of Phillip in 12 parts" about the legendary minimalist composer, Philip Glass. Karina Longworth joins us again to talk about "Love Songs" and "Heavy Metal in Baghdad." Enjoy!
ReelerTV begins its daily coverage live from the Toronto International Film Festival. In this first episode we go to the red carpet for Neil Jordan's latest film, "The Brave One" and Karina Longworth from Spout Blog gives her recommendations. Tune in daily for more Toronto Film Festival coverage.
Weinstein death threat, the end of IFC and Generation D.I.Y. in theaters are all in the News. S.T. talks with Joe Swanberg about what it's like to have his film, "Hannah Takes the Stairs" playing in New York. And Karina Longworth discusses the overlooked films programmed in the New Talkies: Generation D.I.Y.
This week's ReelerTV News reveals Film Forum's fall film slate, pays tribute to Bergman and Antonioni and discusses Picture NY's efforts to keep indie filmmaking cheap and easy in New York. We dropped in on Jeffrey Blitz to talk about his latest film, "Rocket Science" and Logan Hill from New York Magazine sits in the lobby to preview and review Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's biopic, "El Cantante" and David Wain's biblical comedy, "The Ten". Enjoy.
In this week's episode, it's Norman Mailer week in New York, Harvey reads Harry Potter and Taste-a-Vision is explained. The Reeler takes it to the red carpet to ask the cast of "The Ten" about their cardinal sins and Time Out New York's film critic Josh Rothkopf hangs in the lobby discussing "This is England" and manages to praise Lindsay Lohan's acting chops at the very moment she was trying to run down her ex-assistant's mother in Santa Monica. Pure kismet. Enjoy.