As a new designer, dressing Taylor Swift for her first, big world tour is basically as big time as it gets. Michelle Smith, Creative Director and Founder of Milly, is crazy accomplished. The thoroughly modern clothing (and now accessories) line creator brought her industry knowledge (that she'd accumulated from her trainings at major fashion houses like Dior and Louis Vuitton in Paris) to the streets of New York, and thus her collections were born—loved by A-lists everywhere. The gorgeous lines, playful colors and prints and hilarious sayings (like this swimsuit one on Lea Michele) that are Milly are truly perfect for any wardrobe. So read up on the designer, how she got...
- 4/3/2017
- E! Online
Best And Most Beautiful Things screens Friday January 13th through Sunday January 15th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30 all three evenings.
Entertainment Weekly said of Best And Most Beautiful Things:
“A complete and compassionate portrait of the kind of person society too often ignores. It takes only a few minutes with Michelle to grasp her depth. She’s eloquent and thoughtful, with a quirky sense of humor… the film’s overall effect lets the person — not the condition — be the real story, one that’s worth sharing.”
In 2009 director Garrett Zevgetis googled the word “Beauty.”
He had been working on a number of darker-themed documentaries and was determined to find an uplifting story for a future project. The search returned a poignant Helen Keller quote that led Garrett to Perkins School for the Blind outside Boston, a renowned institution where a...
Entertainment Weekly said of Best And Most Beautiful Things:
“A complete and compassionate portrait of the kind of person society too often ignores. It takes only a few minutes with Michelle to grasp her depth. She’s eloquent and thoughtful, with a quirky sense of humor… the film’s overall effect lets the person — not the condition — be the real story, one that’s worth sharing.”
In 2009 director Garrett Zevgetis googled the word “Beauty.”
He had been working on a number of darker-themed documentaries and was determined to find an uplifting story for a future project. The search returned a poignant Helen Keller quote that led Garrett to Perkins School for the Blind outside Boston, a renowned institution where a...
- 1/9/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… This lively portrait of a young woman with disabilities and her ordinary hopes and dreams is an explicit, engaging challenge to our ideas of what “normal” is. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Michelle Smith is 20 years old and eager for her life to begin. She’d love to find a great job that engages her many interests — like lots of people her age (and older), she is a huge nerd, into animation and doll collecting — and cannot wait to move out of her mom Julie’s house in Bangor, Maine. Many of us will see ourselves in Michelle, whether we’re at the same stage in life or have left that ache to be a grownup behind long ago. And that is true even...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Michelle Smith is 20 years old and eager for her life to begin. She’d love to find a great job that engages her many interests — like lots of people her age (and older), she is a huge nerd, into animation and doll collecting — and cannot wait to move out of her mom Julie’s house in Bangor, Maine. Many of us will see ourselves in Michelle, whether we’re at the same stage in life or have left that ache to be a grownup behind long ago. And that is true even...
- 12/8/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Boston-based filmmaker Garrett Zevgetis’s SXSW-premiering Best and Most Beautiful Things (its title a nod to Helen Keller’s words) is a cinematic portrait of a young woman in Bangor, Maine, a recent high school graduate who is searching for a job to suit her skills. An anime devotee whose rebel fashion sense seems to be influenced by her vast Werecat Sisters doll collection, Michelle Smith also happens to be legally blind and has Asperger’s syndrome. As the doc progresses, though, disabilities fade into the background, upstaged by Michelle’s determination to assert her individuality (including exploring Bdsm) and live her life on […]...
- 12/2/2016
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
And now we’ve arrived at the end of the calendar year. As the final push for year-end viewing continues at a furious pace, some of the last unknown films of 2016 will finally make their way to audiences. To help focus your viewing choices, here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
If you’re interested in what still might be in a theater near you, check out our November Release Guide. For those curious what 2017 might bring, you can also visit our calendar page, which has releases through the beginning of the new year.
Happy watching!
Week of December 2 Wide
Incarnate
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten, Catalina Sandino Moreno, David Mazouz, John Pirruccello, Keir O’Donnell, Matthew Nable
Synopsis: A scientist with the ability to enter the...
If you’re interested in what still might be in a theater near you, check out our November Release Guide. For those curious what 2017 might bring, you can also visit our calendar page, which has releases through the beginning of the new year.
Happy watching!
Week of December 2 Wide
Incarnate
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten, Catalina Sandino Moreno, David Mazouz, John Pirruccello, Keir O’Donnell, Matthew Nable
Synopsis: A scientist with the ability to enter the...
- 12/1/2016
- by Alec McPike and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Garrett Zevgetis’ documentary profiles Michelle Smith, a young woman afflicted with legal blindness and Asperger's syndrome, who dreams of becoming a voice performer. That dream goes sadly unrealized, but she achieves fame of a different sort in the highly intimate and revealing Best and Most Beautiful Things. Her captivating presence is the linchpin of the film, which proves alternately inspiring and depressing even while skirting uncomfortably close to voyeurism.
Filmed in her late teens and early 20s, Smith is seen attending Massachusetts’ Perkins School for the Blind, whose notable alumni include Helen Keller. The film’s title stems from a quotation...
Filmed in her late teens and early 20s, Smith is seen attending Massachusetts’ Perkins School for the Blind, whose notable alumni include Helen Keller. The film’s title stems from a quotation...
- 11/30/2016
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"I see it as an adventure," says Michelle Smith of Bdsm in The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive clip of Best and Most Beautiful Things. "It's a very liberating and amazing feeling."
The documentary follows Smith, a precocious young woman in rural Maine who is legally blind and on the autism spectrum and often disappears into quirky obsessions and isolation. With humor and bold curiosity, she chases love and freedom in a surprising sex-positive community on her path to adulthood.
Kevin Bright, the film’s executive producer best known for his work on TV's Friends, was inspired to join the project after teaching...
The documentary follows Smith, a precocious young woman in rural Maine who is legally blind and on the autism spectrum and often disappears into quirky obsessions and isolation. With humor and bold curiosity, she chases love and freedom in a surprising sex-positive community on her path to adulthood.
Kevin Bright, the film’s executive producer best known for his work on TV's Friends, was inspired to join the project after teaching...
- 11/22/2016
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Sony Pictures Classics has announced that they have acquired North American rights to Academy Award winner Taylor Hackford’s comedy, “The Comedian.” Written by Art Linson, the film stars Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone and Veronica Ferres.
The film follows “an aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) [who] has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there,...
– Sony Pictures Classics has announced that they have acquired North American rights to Academy Award winner Taylor Hackford’s comedy, “The Comedian.” Written by Art Linson, the film stars Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone and Veronica Ferres.
The film follows “an aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) [who] has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there,...
- 10/7/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Read More: Ethan Hawke, Jake Gyllenhaal and More Headline 2016 SXSW Features Lineup Before it plays at this year's SXSW, the documentary "Best and Most Beautiful Things" is drumming up some anticipation with a poster premiere here on Indiewire. The film was directed by Garrett Zevgetis ("A Mercenary Tale") and executive produced by Kevin S. Bright, best known as one of the co-creators of the hit show "Friends." The film follows a precocious 20-year-old woman named Michelle Smith who lives with her mother, Julie. Michelle is quirky and charming, legally blind and diagnosed on the autism spectrum, with big dreams and varied passions. Zevgetis documents her eclectic journey of self-discovery with her fellow outcasts, while redefining what it really means to be "normal." "Best and Most Beautiful Things" will be having its world premiere at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival in March. Preferred Content will be...
- 2/4/2016
- by Mike Lown
- Indiewire
The nominations are in! Ellen DeGeneres, The View and General Hospital lead the pack in the 2013 Daytime Emmy nominations.
Sam Champion read the 2013 Daytime Emmy Nominations on Good Morning America on May 1, and it’s a great list! General Hospital and The Young & The Restless were some of the many shows nominated, while Ellen DeGeneres, Katie Couric and the lovely ladies of The View are some of the hosts nominated. Read on for the full list.
Daytime Emmys 2013 — Full List Of Nominations
Outstanding Drama Series
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
Bradley P. Bell, Executive Producer
Rhonda Friedman, Edward J. Scott, SupervisingProducers
Ronald W. Weaver, Senior Producer
Mark Pinciotti, Coordinating Producer
Cynthia J. Popp, Colleen Bell, Casey Kasprzyk, Producers
Days of Our Lives, NBC
Ken Corday, Executive Producer
Lisa de Cazotte, Greg Meng, Co-Executive Producers
Janet Drucker, Tim Stevens, Coordinating Producers
Albert Alarr, Producer
General Hospital , ABC
Frank Valentini, Executive Producer
Mary-Kelly Weir,...
Sam Champion read the 2013 Daytime Emmy Nominations on Good Morning America on May 1, and it’s a great list! General Hospital and The Young & The Restless were some of the many shows nominated, while Ellen DeGeneres, Katie Couric and the lovely ladies of The View are some of the hosts nominated. Read on for the full list.
Daytime Emmys 2013 — Full List Of Nominations
Outstanding Drama Series
The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS
Bradley P. Bell, Executive Producer
Rhonda Friedman, Edward J. Scott, SupervisingProducers
Ronald W. Weaver, Senior Producer
Mark Pinciotti, Coordinating Producer
Cynthia J. Popp, Colleen Bell, Casey Kasprzyk, Producers
Days of Our Lives, NBC
Ken Corday, Executive Producer
Lisa de Cazotte, Greg Meng, Co-Executive Producers
Janet Drucker, Tim Stevens, Coordinating Producers
Albert Alarr, Producer
General Hospital , ABC
Frank Valentini, Executive Producer
Mary-Kelly Weir,...
- 5/1/2013
- by Eleanore Hutch
- HollywoodLife
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