Flannery screens as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival November 5th – 22nd.Ticket information for the virtual screening can be found Here
Winner of the first-ever Library of Congress/Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, “Flannery” is a lyrical, intimate exploration of the life and work of author Flannery O’Connor, whose distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. With her family home at Andalusia (the Georgia farm where she grew up and later wrote her best-known work) as a backdrop, a picture of the woman behind her sharply aware, starkly redemptive style comes into focus. “Flannery” features interviews with both those who knew her and those inspired by her, including Sally Fitzgerald, Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Alice Walker, Hilton Als, Mary Gordon, and Alice McDermott. Employing never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered personal letters, O’Connor’s own published words (read by Mary Steenburgen), and striking animation,...
Winner of the first-ever Library of Congress/Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, “Flannery” is a lyrical, intimate exploration of the life and work of author Flannery O’Connor, whose distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a generation of artists and activists. With her family home at Andalusia (the Georgia farm where she grew up and later wrote her best-known work) as a backdrop, a picture of the woman behind her sharply aware, starkly redemptive style comes into focus. “Flannery” features interviews with both those who knew her and those inspired by her, including Sally Fitzgerald, Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Alice Walker, Hilton Als, Mary Gordon, and Alice McDermott. Employing never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered personal letters, O’Connor’s own published words (read by Mary Steenburgen), and striking animation,...
- 11/15/2020
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Mary Willard, playwright, TV writer and wife of four-time Emmy nominee Fred Willard, has died at the age of 71.
Willard died on July 13, but news of her death was recently made public.
Champion is the one word that comes to mind when remembering Mary Willard and she wasn’t just Fred Willard’s best cheerleader, but she also mentored and nurtured a number of creative comedic writers and actors through the Willards’ Los Angeles-based comedy sketch group The Mohos over the last two-plus decades (which anecdotally I was a part of some years ago).
‘Let’s put on a show’ was an unofficial mantra, and within less than two-weeks time, the troupe would pull wigs out of the closet and brush up pages for performances at the Io West and The Bang Theater and even as far as the Inland Empire. Those trying out sketches at Mohos had the opportunity...
Willard died on July 13, but news of her death was recently made public.
Champion is the one word that comes to mind when remembering Mary Willard and she wasn’t just Fred Willard’s best cheerleader, but she also mentored and nurtured a number of creative comedic writers and actors through the Willards’ Los Angeles-based comedy sketch group The Mohos over the last two-plus decades (which anecdotally I was a part of some years ago).
‘Let’s put on a show’ was an unofficial mantra, and within less than two-weeks time, the troupe would pull wigs out of the closet and brush up pages for performances at the Io West and The Bang Theater and even as far as the Inland Empire. Those trying out sketches at Mohos had the opportunity...
- 9/6/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content has brought in managers Brooke Ehrlich and Geoffrey Sanford to expand the media rights division formed by partners Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski last year. Together, Ehrlich and Sanford ran their own boutique management firm The Sanford Ehrlich Company. They will operate out of Anonymous Content’s Los Angeles headquarters.
“Brooke and Geoffrey are two of the very best representatives of critically-acclaimed material, as well as brilliant screen and television writers and directors,” Sanders and Evashevski said. “We couldn’t be more excited to have Brooke and Geoff join us. “Over the course of their very successful careers, they have displayed savvy and a keen eye for talent that is unquestionable.”
Sanford and Ehrlich stated, “We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Anonymous Content and work with their incredible clients, and team. We’ve long admired the way they do business and are excited to bring...
“Brooke and Geoffrey are two of the very best representatives of critically-acclaimed material, as well as brilliant screen and television writers and directors,” Sanders and Evashevski said. “We couldn’t be more excited to have Brooke and Geoff join us. “Over the course of their very successful careers, they have displayed savvy and a keen eye for talent that is unquestionable.”
Sanford and Ehrlich stated, “We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Anonymous Content and work with their incredible clients, and team. We’ve long admired the way they do business and are excited to bring...
- 7/9/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Scott Rudin Productions has acquired The Ninth Hour, the novel by National Book Award-winning author Alice McDermott. The book was published today by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and has received spectacular reviews. Rudin and Eli Bush will produce the film. The deal was made by Geoffrey Sanford of The Sanford Ehrlich Company and Sarah Burnes of The Gernert Company. The novel is a multi-generational story steeped in the Irish Catholic faith and set in the early…...
- 9/19/2017
- Deadline
The National Book Awards finalists were announced on Wednesday, with five each in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People’s Literature. Lawrence Wright’s “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief” made the nonfiction list. The book stemmed from Wright’s “New Yorker” piece on “Crash” director Paul Haggis and his exit from the controversial church. Also read: National Book Awards Pick Thomas Pynchon, Alice McDermott for Fiction Longlist He’ll be competing against a fellow “New Yorker” staff writer in the category: Jill Lepore’s “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin” also made the list.
- 10/16/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
The National Book Awards released its long list for fiction on Thursday with the prestigious prize-giver singling out some of the literary world’s best known authors like Thomas Pynchon and Jhmupa Lahirir. Pynchon was cited for “The Bleeding Edge,” an Internet-infused mystery, while Lahirir was singled out for “The Lowland,” a story of Bengali brothers growing up in Calcutta. Other top names vying for the honor are Alice McDermott, for her dreamlike examination of a Brooklyn woman in “Someone”; George Saunders for his short story collection “Tenth of December”; and Rachel Kushner, for her tale of a peripatetic artist in “The.
- 9/19/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Just a day after she nabbed the lead role in Spike Jonze’s next film, the actress who is currently shooting Steven Sodebergh‘s Bitter Pill has been attached to another drama. Coming off her Oscar nomination for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara is looking to star in Brooklyn, adapted from Colm Toibin‘s novel by Nick Hornby (About a Boy). [THR]
The film will be produced by those behind An Education, including screenwriter Hornby and his wife Amanda Posey, who runs the outfit Wildgaze with Finola Dwyer. The coming-of-age film will see Mara play a young Irish woman who heads to the New York City borough for a new life.
After her dark role in David Fincher‘s film, it’ll be nice to see Mara handle something a bit more standard. While I wasn’t bowled over by Lone Scherfig‘s Carey Mulligan drama, it was...
The film will be produced by those behind An Education, including screenwriter Hornby and his wife Amanda Posey, who runs the outfit Wildgaze with Finola Dwyer. The coming-of-age film will see Mara play a young Irish woman who heads to the New York City borough for a new life.
After her dark role in David Fincher‘s film, it’ll be nice to see Mara handle something a bit more standard. While I wasn’t bowled over by Lone Scherfig‘s Carey Mulligan drama, it was...
- 4/26/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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