Madrid-based agency Feelsales has picked up worldwide sales rights to indie social drama film “Third Week,” by long term New York-based Catalan writer-director Jordi Torrent (“The Redemption of the Fish”).
A U.S.-Spain co-production, the film is produced by Torrent, alongside Randy Simon, Maria Àngels Amorós and Toni Espinosa, for New York’s companies Duende Pictures and Rfs Wolf Entertainment and Barcelona’s Toned Media.
“Third Week” forms part of the Spanish Screenings On Tour 2023 international showcase’s Next From Spain – Comin’ Up sidebar, a preview of titles from Spain scheduled for release next hosted by the upcoming 9th edition of Rome’s Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (Mia) in Rome.
Shot on Staten Island, which is described in the film as a socially and aesthetically marginalized neighborhood of NYC, it follows the struggle of Alvin, a young man just out from prison, after serving a two years sentence, looking to find himself again.
A U.S.-Spain co-production, the film is produced by Torrent, alongside Randy Simon, Maria Àngels Amorós and Toni Espinosa, for New York’s companies Duende Pictures and Rfs Wolf Entertainment and Barcelona’s Toned Media.
“Third Week” forms part of the Spanish Screenings On Tour 2023 international showcase’s Next From Spain – Comin’ Up sidebar, a preview of titles from Spain scheduled for release next hosted by the upcoming 9th edition of Rome’s Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (Mia) in Rome.
Shot on Staten Island, which is described in the film as a socially and aesthetically marginalized neighborhood of NYC, it follows the struggle of Alvin, a young man just out from prison, after serving a two years sentence, looking to find himself again.
- 9/11/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
“This gun is my judge, my jury… and my executioner!”
Robert Forster and Fred Williamson in Vigilante is coming to 4K Uhd and Blu-ray December 15th from Blue Underground’s. Check out the retsoration trailer:
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, Eddie goes berserk and vows revenge. Now there’s a new breed of marauder loose on the city streets, enforcing his own kind of law. His justice is swift. His methods are violent. He is the Vigilante.
Fred Williamson (From Dusk Till Dawn), Richard Bright (The Godfather), Rutanya Alda (Amityville II: The Possession), Carol Lynley (The Poseidon Adventure), Woody Strode (Spartacus), Joe Spinell (Maniac) and Salsa legend Willie Colón co-star in this hard-hitting exploitation classic from director...
Robert Forster and Fred Williamson in Vigilante is coming to 4K Uhd and Blu-ray December 15th from Blue Underground’s. Check out the retsoration trailer:
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, Eddie goes berserk and vows revenge. Now there’s a new breed of marauder loose on the city streets, enforcing his own kind of law. His justice is swift. His methods are violent. He is the Vigilante.
Fred Williamson (From Dusk Till Dawn), Richard Bright (The Godfather), Rutanya Alda (Amityville II: The Possession), Carol Lynley (The Poseidon Adventure), Woody Strode (Spartacus), Joe Spinell (Maniac) and Salsa legend Willie Colón co-star in this hard-hitting exploitation classic from director...
- 12/3/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
By Bill Blick
In the late 1970s and early 80s, there was a fear that gripped New York City. After 1977, the year of the Son of Sam murders, the disastrous blackout, and the Bronx literally in flames later, the cityscape and New York aura had drastically changed. The movie Death Wish (1974) directed by Michael Winner, made earlier, had caused quite a stir reflecting the bleak and often paranoid reactions of citizens, and it spawned several other films. Vigilante, produced and directed by exploitation genre virtuoso, William Lustig, and written by Richard Vetere, was perhaps arguably one of the leanest and no-holds-barred of this type of film. Lustig and actor Joe Spinell had teamed up to make the lucrative but extremely graphic and controversial horror/ serial killer film Maniac (1980). Vigilante was Lustig’s follow up. Yet, Vigilante remains to be more aestheticized with a raw prose of the street thanks to Vetere's work,...
In the late 1970s and early 80s, there was a fear that gripped New York City. After 1977, the year of the Son of Sam murders, the disastrous blackout, and the Bronx literally in flames later, the cityscape and New York aura had drastically changed. The movie Death Wish (1974) directed by Michael Winner, made earlier, had caused quite a stir reflecting the bleak and often paranoid reactions of citizens, and it spawned several other films. Vigilante, produced and directed by exploitation genre virtuoso, William Lustig, and written by Richard Vetere, was perhaps arguably one of the leanest and no-holds-barred of this type of film. Lustig and actor Joe Spinell had teamed up to make the lucrative but extremely graphic and controversial horror/ serial killer film Maniac (1980). Vigilante was Lustig’s follow up. Yet, Vigilante remains to be more aestheticized with a raw prose of the street thanks to Vetere's work,...
- 8/26/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The House Of Cards showrunner is looking to expand his political influence from the White House to the union hall. Beau Willimon is among the candidates announced today for a two-year term on the WGA East Council. Fifteen other candidates also will vie for the seven open Freelance seats including incumbents John Auerbach, Jenny Lumet, Terry George, Richard Vetere, Patrick Mason and Walter Bernstein, the 94-year-old Fail-Safe and The Front scribe who was blacklisted during the 1950s. The other candidates are Kyle Bradstreet, Andrea Ciannavei, Timothy Cooper, Marin Gazzaniga, Chris Kyle, John Marshall, Jo Miller, Oren Moverman, Danielle Paige and […]...
- 7/1/2014
- Deadline
The WGA West and WGA East released the results of their board and council elections Friday. In the West, eight members were elected to the board of directors: Chip Johannessen, Katherine Fugate, Michael Oates Palmer, John Aboud, Scott Alexander, David A. Goodman, Marjorie David and Kathy Kiernan. In the East, there were ten seats open on the guild’s council, which is the equivalent of the WGA West’s board. Elected as Freelance members on the Council were: John Auerbach (i), Walter Bernstein (i), Terry George (i), Jenny Lumet, Gina Ginfofriddo (i), Lara Shapiro and Richard Vetere. Elected as Staff members on
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- 9/21/2012
- by Jonathan Handel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York – The Writers Guild of America, East (Wgae) announced today the 2012 nominees for its Council election (order determined by lot*). The term is for two years, from 2012-2014. There are 10 open Council seats (seven Freelance seats and three Staff seats) in this election. The 10 candidates for the seven open Freelance seats are: Richard Vetere, Lara Shapiro, Gina Gionfriddo, Walter Bernstein, John Rinaldi, Michael Kantor, John Auerbach, Terry George, Jenny Lumet and John Marshall. The three candidates for the three open Staff seats are: Patrick Mason, Arthur Daley and Ted Schreiber. The Wgae annual membership meeting is scheduled for September 20, 2012. *The order of listing candidates is determined by a drawing of candidates’ names by lot, conducted by two members with a Wgae staff member acting as witness. The Wgae does not endorse or recommend any candidates for Guild office. Related: WGA West Announces First Board Candidates...
- 6/27/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
New York City – The Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO (Wgae) announced the nominees for its Council (order determined by lot*) today. The term is for two years: 2010 – 2012. There are 10 open Council seats (six Freelance seats and four Staff seats) for this election. The 21 candidates for the six open Freelance seats are: Andrew Bergman, Robert Levi, Israel Horovitz, David Steven Cohen, Tom Jennings, Leslie Nipkow, Jeremy Pikser, John Auerbach, Susane Lee, Elizabeth Page, Walter Bernstein, Terry George, Richard Vetere, Bernardo Ruiz, Jerome Coopersmith, Gina Gionfriddo, Bobby Spillane, Fred Graver, Richard Wesley, Julian Sheppard, and [...]...
- 6/15/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The Writers Guild of America East announced the nominees for its 10 open council seats Monday.
The 21 candidates for the six open freelance seats are Andrew Bergman, Robert Levi, Israel Horovitz, David Steven Cohen, Tom Jennings, Leslie Nipkow, Jeremy Pikser, John Auerbach, Susane Lee, Elizabeth Page, Walter Bernstein, Terry George, Richard Vetere, Bernardo Ruiz, Jerome Coopersmith, Gina Gionfriddo, Bobby Spillane, Fred Graver, Richard Wesley, Julian Sheppard and Jenny Lumet. Terms are for two years.
The 11 candidates for the four open staff seats are Andy Meppen, David Keller, Cath Twohill, Ted Schreiber, Angela Perdos, Kathy McGee, Armando Norat, Brian Morgan, Marta Gibbons, Julia Yoler and Art Daley. Those seats are also two-year terms.
Wgae members can vote by mail or in person at the annual membership meeting Sept. 16.
The 21 candidates for the six open freelance seats are Andrew Bergman, Robert Levi, Israel Horovitz, David Steven Cohen, Tom Jennings, Leslie Nipkow, Jeremy Pikser, John Auerbach, Susane Lee, Elizabeth Page, Walter Bernstein, Terry George, Richard Vetere, Bernardo Ruiz, Jerome Coopersmith, Gina Gionfriddo, Bobby Spillane, Fred Graver, Richard Wesley, Julian Sheppard and Jenny Lumet. Terms are for two years.
The 11 candidates for the four open staff seats are Andy Meppen, David Keller, Cath Twohill, Ted Schreiber, Angela Perdos, Kathy McGee, Armando Norat, Brian Morgan, Marta Gibbons, Julia Yoler and Art Daley. Those seats are also two-year terms.
Wgae members can vote by mail or in person at the annual membership meeting Sept. 16.
- 6/14/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions Inc. in association with Shortened Attention Span Theater and Producer Al Messina is proud to announce the World Premiere Staged Reading of Charles Messina's new play A Room of My Own at the The Players Theatre Main Stage. A Room of My Own is a comedy set in the late 1970s and revolves around one wacky Italian-American family living in a small tenement apartment in Greenwich Village. Headed by a conniving, thieving matriarch, a gambling addicted patriarch, and an uncle with a secret that everyone knows, The Morelli Clan of Thompson Street is one outrageous bunch. Their struggles with debt, poverty and a Nun who they welcome into their lives is seen through the eyes of little 10 year old Carlo Morelli, a would-be writer, whose vocabulary consist mainly of four letter words. Playwright/Director Messina is best known for his work on the critically acclaimed, off-Broadway hits Mercury,...
- 1/27/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The WGA East announced Wednesday the nominees for seats on its presiding council. Candidates for the six open freelance seats are Madeline Amgott, Jerome Coopersmith, Michael Winship, Maria Maggenti, Gina Gionfriddo, David Steven Cohen, Richard Vetere, Walter Bernstein, John Auerbach and Bob Schneider. Those running for the four open staff seats are Kate Miller, Tom Phillips, Andy Meppen, Phil Pilato, Lisa Shell, Marianne Pryor, Roger Fortuna, Tanya Mills, Matthew Nelko and Charles Lyons. Each of the terms is for two years, and members can vote by mail or in person at the annual membership meeting Sept. 21.
- 6/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The WGA East announced Wednesday the nominees for seats on its presiding council. Candidates for the six open freelance seats are Madeline Amgott, Jerome Coopersmith, Michael Winship, Maria Maggenti, Gina Gionfriddo, David Steven Cohen, Richard Vetere, Walter Bernstein, John Auerbach and Bob Schneider. Those running for the four open staff seats are Kate Miller, Tom Phillips, Andy Meppen, Phil Pilato, Lisa Shell, Marianne Pryor, Roger Fortuna, Tanya Mills, Matthew Nelko and Charles Lyons. Each of the terms is for two years, and members can vote by mail or in person at the annual membership meeting Sept. 21.
- 6/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The WGA East announced Wednesday the nominees for seats on its presiding council. Candidates for the six open freelance seats are Madeline Amgott, Jerome Coopersmith, Michael Winship, Maria Maggenti, Gina Gionfriddo, David Steven Cohen, Richard Vetere, Walter Bernstein, John Auerbach and Bob Schneider. Those running for the four open staff seats are Kate Miller, Tom Phillips, Andy Meppen, Phil Pilato, Lisa Shell, Marianne Pryor, Roger Fortuna, Tanya Mills, Matthew Nelko and Charles Lyons. Each of the terms is for two years, and members can vote by mail or in person at the annual membership meeting Sept. 21.
- 6/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The WGA East announced Monday the candidates for its fall election, which will include a presidential race between Richard Wesley and Chris Albers. Tom Fontana is running unopposed for vp, and Gail Lee is running unopposed for secretary-treasurer. In addition, 15 people have been nominated to run for six open freelance seats on the council, the governing body. They include incumbents Stephen Schiff, Donald Westlake, Penelope Koechl, Jerome Coppersmith and Suzanne O'Malley as well as challengers Cynthia Benjamin, Wesley, Susan Rice, Karen Goodman, James Hart, Warren Leight, Richard Vetere, Susan Kim, Maria Maggenti and Adam Brooks.
- 6/27/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Agnieszka Holland has produced her own miracle in "The Third Miracle".
This is a provocative work that delves into belief systems and religious faith, yet the film is also a spellbinding detective tale with the flavor of a courtroom drama thrown in.
From the first images, the film announces itself as the work of a cinematic master, one who can entertain as much as she can inspire thought about what is most essential to our lives.
Certain to win plaudits from critics and gain appreciative audiences beyond the art house, "Miracle" should become one of the most discussed and debated films of the final quarter of the year.
The film also contains a terrific, on-the-button performance by Anne Heche. While she has done solid work in the past and has, unfortunately, become more famous for her love life than her acting, Heche is nothing short of brilliant here. Playing the bitter daughter of a woman some American Catholics propose as a saint, she endows her character with such depth of feeling and such passionate dedication to get past the b.s. to the truth as to become the moral center of the film's mystery.
"Miracle" also contains numerous memorable performances by a cast headed by the dependable Ed Harris and featuring a pivotal and forcefully acted role by Armin Mueller-Stahl.
The film, written by John Romano and Richard Vetere based on Vetere's novel, focuses on a mystery. Or is it a miracle? Each November, tears of blood stream from a religious statue at a parish church in Chicago. These tears, said to have cured a dying girl, fall on the anniversary of the death of a lay woman who lived and worked in the church. Enough "miracles" can be associated with the woman that parishioners want the church to consider her for sainthood.
The dubious cardinal (Charles Haid) tracks down his "miracle killer," Frank Morris Harris), a priest with a reputation for investigating such cases and exposing their underlying fallacies.
But Father Morris is struggling with doubt about the church and its dogma. Thrust into an investigation he does not want to pursue, he finds the case touches his deepest fears. He doesn't mind the sacrifices he has undergone for the priesthood, including celibacy. But he will be damned angry if he eventually exposes faith itself as empty.
His "beliefs" have to be true, especially after a previous dispiriting case in which he destroyed the faith in miracles of an entire parish. But more and more, he is coming to see religion as superstition magnified by relics and mysticism.
A further challenge to him is the would-be saint's daughter Roxanne (Heche), a non-believer who cannot forgive her mother for abandoning her at 16 to serve the church.
While the details of the detective story involve Catholicism, the film is really about modern man's search for belief. The film sees this quest as a particularly troubled one in the current age, where faith has given way to questioning. Modern man has faith only in facts, and miracles occur outside these. But facts are all Morris has to work with and, ultimately, he persuades himself he has gathered sufficient facts to prove the woman's claim to sainthood.
Enter a papal envoy (Mueller-Stahl) who, as devil's advocate, has many reasons to block sainthood for a lay woman from America. And factor in a further complication: Morris has fallen in love with Roxanne.
"The Third Miracle" is the very model of good detective fiction. The story begins in 1944 in a Polish town under attack by Allied bombers and ends in Chicago in the early 1980s. A host of colorful characters pops up in scenes ranging from the upper crust of Chicago to its meanest streets. Cinematographer Jerzy Zielinski's camera takes it all in, conveying a kind of hyper-reality that burns each scene into the brain.
And as in all good detective tales, a certain amount of lucky coincidence and sleuthing pull all the elements together at the end. But also as in all good detective stories, the central metaphysical mystery remains unsolved.
THE THIRD MIRACLE
Sony Pictures Classics
Franchise Pictures
Producers:Fred Fuchs, Steven Hafts, Elie Samaha
Director:Agnieszka Holland
Writers:John Romano, Richard Vetere
Based on a novel by:Richard Vetere
Executive producers:Francis Ford Coppola, Ashok Amritraj, Andrew Stevens
Director of photography:Jerzy Zielinski
Production designer:Robert De Vico
Music:Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Costume designer:Denise Cronenberg
Editor:David J. Siegel
Color/stereo
Cast:
Frank Morris:Ed Harris
Roxanne:Anne Heche
Werner:Armin Mueller-Stahl
Father Paul Panak:Ken James
Bishop Cahill:Charles Haid
Brother Gregory:James Gallanders
Running time -- 119 minutes
No MPAA rating...
This is a provocative work that delves into belief systems and religious faith, yet the film is also a spellbinding detective tale with the flavor of a courtroom drama thrown in.
From the first images, the film announces itself as the work of a cinematic master, one who can entertain as much as she can inspire thought about what is most essential to our lives.
Certain to win plaudits from critics and gain appreciative audiences beyond the art house, "Miracle" should become one of the most discussed and debated films of the final quarter of the year.
The film also contains a terrific, on-the-button performance by Anne Heche. While she has done solid work in the past and has, unfortunately, become more famous for her love life than her acting, Heche is nothing short of brilliant here. Playing the bitter daughter of a woman some American Catholics propose as a saint, she endows her character with such depth of feeling and such passionate dedication to get past the b.s. to the truth as to become the moral center of the film's mystery.
"Miracle" also contains numerous memorable performances by a cast headed by the dependable Ed Harris and featuring a pivotal and forcefully acted role by Armin Mueller-Stahl.
The film, written by John Romano and Richard Vetere based on Vetere's novel, focuses on a mystery. Or is it a miracle? Each November, tears of blood stream from a religious statue at a parish church in Chicago. These tears, said to have cured a dying girl, fall on the anniversary of the death of a lay woman who lived and worked in the church. Enough "miracles" can be associated with the woman that parishioners want the church to consider her for sainthood.
The dubious cardinal (Charles Haid) tracks down his "miracle killer," Frank Morris Harris), a priest with a reputation for investigating such cases and exposing their underlying fallacies.
But Father Morris is struggling with doubt about the church and its dogma. Thrust into an investigation he does not want to pursue, he finds the case touches his deepest fears. He doesn't mind the sacrifices he has undergone for the priesthood, including celibacy. But he will be damned angry if he eventually exposes faith itself as empty.
His "beliefs" have to be true, especially after a previous dispiriting case in which he destroyed the faith in miracles of an entire parish. But more and more, he is coming to see religion as superstition magnified by relics and mysticism.
A further challenge to him is the would-be saint's daughter Roxanne (Heche), a non-believer who cannot forgive her mother for abandoning her at 16 to serve the church.
While the details of the detective story involve Catholicism, the film is really about modern man's search for belief. The film sees this quest as a particularly troubled one in the current age, where faith has given way to questioning. Modern man has faith only in facts, and miracles occur outside these. But facts are all Morris has to work with and, ultimately, he persuades himself he has gathered sufficient facts to prove the woman's claim to sainthood.
Enter a papal envoy (Mueller-Stahl) who, as devil's advocate, has many reasons to block sainthood for a lay woman from America. And factor in a further complication: Morris has fallen in love with Roxanne.
"The Third Miracle" is the very model of good detective fiction. The story begins in 1944 in a Polish town under attack by Allied bombers and ends in Chicago in the early 1980s. A host of colorful characters pops up in scenes ranging from the upper crust of Chicago to its meanest streets. Cinematographer Jerzy Zielinski's camera takes it all in, conveying a kind of hyper-reality that burns each scene into the brain.
And as in all good detective tales, a certain amount of lucky coincidence and sleuthing pull all the elements together at the end. But also as in all good detective stories, the central metaphysical mystery remains unsolved.
THE THIRD MIRACLE
Sony Pictures Classics
Franchise Pictures
Producers:Fred Fuchs, Steven Hafts, Elie Samaha
Director:Agnieszka Holland
Writers:John Romano, Richard Vetere
Based on a novel by:Richard Vetere
Executive producers:Francis Ford Coppola, Ashok Amritraj, Andrew Stevens
Director of photography:Jerzy Zielinski
Production designer:Robert De Vico
Music:Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Costume designer:Denise Cronenberg
Editor:David J. Siegel
Color/stereo
Cast:
Frank Morris:Ed Harris
Roxanne:Anne Heche
Werner:Armin Mueller-Stahl
Father Paul Panak:Ken James
Bishop Cahill:Charles Haid
Brother Gregory:James Gallanders
Running time -- 119 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/16/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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