It’s one of busiest opening weeks in some time for indie releases with Neon (Pleasure), Bleecker Street (Montana Story), IFC Midnight (The Innocents) and Roadside Attractions (Family Camp) in theaters — even as the imminent closure of the Landmark Pico underscores just how arthouses are struggling to win back core demos.
Also out, Grasshopper Films presents Michelangelo Frammartino’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winner Il Buco; Greenwich Entertainment documentary Mau is the first feature-length treatment on design visionary Bruce Mau; and Trafalgar Entertainment offers a remastered version of Lasse Hallstrom’s Abba: The Movie, which follows the group’s hugely successful 1977 Australian tour.
Roadside’s faith-based comedy Family Camp is the widest specialty release on over 850 screens. It’s the first feature from The Skit Guys — Tommy Woodard and Eddie James – targeting “family member from eight to eighty.” Two polar-opposite families find themselves sharing a cabin and vying for a coveted...
Also out, Grasshopper Films presents Michelangelo Frammartino’s Venice Special Jury Prize-winner Il Buco; Greenwich Entertainment documentary Mau is the first feature-length treatment on design visionary Bruce Mau; and Trafalgar Entertainment offers a remastered version of Lasse Hallstrom’s Abba: The Movie, which follows the group’s hugely successful 1977 Australian tour.
Roadside’s faith-based comedy Family Camp is the widest specialty release on over 850 screens. It’s the first feature from The Skit Guys — Tommy Woodard and Eddie James – targeting “family member from eight to eighty.” Two polar-opposite families find themselves sharing a cabin and vying for a coveted...
- 5/13/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
In a new documentary, the Canadian designer’s life and career is explored with refreshing optimism, leading to lessons for us all
When Canadian designer Bruce Mau was invited to Guatemala to help reimagine the country’s future, they introduced him as Bruce, who was “going to redesign Guatemala”. Although this was a bit of a stretch, the scale at which he helped change the nation’s outlook was similarly huge. Guatemala was originally called Guate by the Indigenous people, but the Spanish later added mala, meaning bad. Mau’s first move was to add an “a”, creating “Guate! Amala!,” or “The love of Guate.” The slogan was part of a larger campaign to shine a positive light on the country, showcase the people working to improve their country, and recruit a thousand volunteers to help spread these messages. They received 20,000 sign ups in the first weekend.
This large-scale, systemic...
When Canadian designer Bruce Mau was invited to Guatemala to help reimagine the country’s future, they introduced him as Bruce, who was “going to redesign Guatemala”. Although this was a bit of a stretch, the scale at which he helped change the nation’s outlook was similarly huge. Guatemala was originally called Guate by the Indigenous people, but the Spanish later added mala, meaning bad. Mau’s first move was to add an “a”, creating “Guate! Amala!,” or “The love of Guate.” The slogan was part of a larger campaign to shine a positive light on the country, showcase the people working to improve their country, and recruit a thousand volunteers to help spread these messages. They received 20,000 sign ups in the first weekend.
This large-scale, systemic...
- 5/12/2022
- by Matt Shaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This year’s Diff will run as physical event from February 23-March 6.
Sasha King’s Vicky and Dónal Foreman’s The Cry Of Granuaile are among the world premieres screening at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (Diff), which will run as a physical event from February 23-March 6.
Produced by King and Bill Snodgrass, documentary Vicky tells the story of Irish woman Vicky Phelan’s work to expose the truth behind Ireland’s Cervical Check healthcare scandal.
The Cry Of Granuaile is produced by Foreman, Liam Beatty and Edwina Forkin and centres on an American filmmaker, reeling from the...
Sasha King’s Vicky and Dónal Foreman’s The Cry Of Granuaile are among the world premieres screening at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (Diff), which will run as a physical event from February 23-March 6.
Produced by King and Bill Snodgrass, documentary Vicky tells the story of Irish woman Vicky Phelan’s work to expose the truth behind Ireland’s Cervical Check healthcare scandal.
The Cry Of Granuaile is produced by Foreman, Liam Beatty and Edwina Forkin and centres on an American filmmaker, reeling from the...
- 2/4/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
"Think like you're lost in the forest." Greenwich Entertainment has revealed an official US trailer for the documentary film titled simply Mau, the feature-length documentary about design visionary Bruce Mau. This originally premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival last year, and it also stopped by Cph:dox and Hot Docs. Filmed over a period of approximately three years and directed by Benji and Jono Bergmann, the documentary looks back at Mau's life to date and his career. It tells the story of his humble beginnings in Canada to his sharp rise to fame in the design space. "From working with the greatest living architects (Rem Koolhaas & Frank Gehry) on books and museums to rebranding nations such as Guatemala and Denmark. Bruce Mau is a pioneer of transformation design and the belief that design can be used to create positive change in our world." I want to see this just to hear...
- 1/27/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The rich, varied and enticing lineup of Uruguay’s inaugural Arca Intl. Film Festival underscores one fact from the festival’s get-go: In commercial terms, art-themed movies are not necessarily a backwater niche, reserved for high-brow aesthetes.
MSNBC Films won what is described as an intense bidding war to secure rights to Jr’s “Paper and Glue”; Sony Pictures Classics acquired U.S. rights to animated heist caper “Ruben Brandt, Collector,” Zeitgeist Film/Kino Lorber took those to “Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint”; further titles are handled by doyens of arthouse film or documentary sales such as Films Boutique (“Last and First Men”) and Deckert Distribution (“Caveman–The Hidden Giant”).
That market punch is no coincidence. For Arca’s open air big screen sessions, “we’ve chosen titles to appeal to a broad public, fiction titles, or documentaries which are attractive for their subjects or form, or even an...
MSNBC Films won what is described as an intense bidding war to secure rights to Jr’s “Paper and Glue”; Sony Pictures Classics acquired U.S. rights to animated heist caper “Ruben Brandt, Collector,” Zeitgeist Film/Kino Lorber took those to “Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint”; further titles are handled by doyens of arthouse film or documentary sales such as Films Boutique (“Last and First Men”) and Deckert Distribution (“Caveman–The Hidden Giant”).
That market punch is no coincidence. For Arca’s open air big screen sessions, “we’ve chosen titles to appeal to a broad public, fiction titles, or documentaries which are attractive for their subjects or form, or even an...
- 1/6/2022
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
"Design is one of the world's most powerful forces." Madman Film in Australia has unveiled an official trailer for the film Mau, the first-ever, feature-length documentary about the design visionary Bruce Mau. The doc film explores his unlikely creative journey and ever-optimistic push to tackle the world’s biggest problems with design. This originally premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, and also played at Cph:dox and Hot Docs. Filmed over a period of approximately three years and directed by Benji and Jono Bergmann, the documentary looks back at Mau’s life to date and his career. It sets out to show his far-reaching, fundamentally optimistic view of design as a global change agent, based on some of his biggest projects. Mau and his wife Bisi Williams also discuss "how their lives have affected their design philosophy, how design can bring about change, and where its limits lie.
- 9/21/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Drama, a new book by Tony winnerDavid Rockwell with Bruce Mau, and edited by Sam Lubell, is now available fromPhaidon. Inspired by an early life rooted in the theater, Rockwell has long drawn on aspects of performance to frame and enhance his built work, which ranges from hotels and restaurants, theaters and museums, to set and exhibition design, to workplaces, playgrounds and academic buildings. He aims to create a story within any space he designs, evoking a sense of performance, showmanship and above all - Drama.
- 6/9/2021
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Watching the Bergman Brothers' wide-reaching, yet fleet documentary, Mau, on the life and career of Canadian super-star architect and designer Bruce Mau, I could not help but think of the final scene of Shaolin Soccer. After having won the big match, Stephen Chow's upbeat character is shown walking down a clean urban avenue, smiling at what he has wrought by living his values. All the urbanites are seen causally using martial arts to efficiently go about their regular day with joy: from catching the street car, to parallel parking, to triming a sidwewalk hedge. The shot eventually pans upward to a billboard emphasizing the global embrace of the martial arts ethos. Bruce Mau wants has a similar vision with good design. Not just having thought...
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- 5/7/2021
- Screen Anarchy
The new entries include In The Same Breath, from One Child Nation director Nanfu Wang.
Hot Docs has revealed an additional 13 documentary features set to screen in the Special Presentations section of this year’s festival.
Among films that will get their international premieres in the section are In the Same Breath, director Nanfu Wang’s investigation (which had its world premiere at Sundance) into Covid-19 and the global health crisis it sparked; Homeroom, director and cinematographer Peter Nicks’ look at the anxieties and stress of a senior high school class; Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, about the creators,...
Hot Docs has revealed an additional 13 documentary features set to screen in the Special Presentations section of this year’s festival.
Among films that will get their international premieres in the section are In the Same Breath, director Nanfu Wang’s investigation (which had its world premiere at Sundance) into Covid-19 and the global health crisis it sparked; Homeroom, director and cinematographer Peter Nicks’ look at the anxieties and stress of a senior high school class; Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, about the creators,...
- 3/16/2021
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
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