Special Counsel Jack Smith went toe-to-toe with U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon over her requests for jury instructions in Donald Trump’s classified documents case.
In a scathing filing submitted Tuesday, Smith accused Cannon of operating on an “unstated and fundamentally flawed legal premise” when she requested that the parties in the case draft different versions of their proposed jury instructions based on their competing interpretations of laws governing classified materials and presidential records.
Trump has argued that his retention of classified documents after his ouster from the White House was perfectly legal.
In a scathing filing submitted Tuesday, Smith accused Cannon of operating on an “unstated and fundamentally flawed legal premise” when she requested that the parties in the case draft different versions of their proposed jury instructions based on their competing interpretations of laws governing classified materials and presidential records.
Trump has argued that his retention of classified documents after his ouster from the White House was perfectly legal.
- 4/3/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Special Counsel Jack Smith took Donald Trump’s claims of presidential immunity straight to the Supreme Court on Monday. Smith’s office had petitioned the court to rule on Trump’s central defense against charges of election interference: that his former status as president make him immune to criminal charges related to his attempt to subvert the 2020 election.
In response, the ex-president’s camp issued a statement decrying Smith’s attempt to appeal to the very court Trump helped appointment. A Trump spokesperson accused the special counsel of attempting to...
In response, the ex-president’s camp issued a statement decrying Smith’s attempt to appeal to the very court Trump helped appointment. A Trump spokesperson accused the special counsel of attempting to...
- 12/11/2023
- by Charisma Madarang and Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Special counsel Jack Smith’s office cited Trump’s social media post — where he attacked Gen. Mark Milley and suggested he should be put to death for treason — as fuel to bolster their push to put a gag order on the former president ahead of his Jan. 6 case.
Earlier this month, Smith’s team filed a motion for a partial gag-order on Trump’s public statements to bar him from attacking prosecutors, witnesses and others in ways that would threaten the integrity of the election meddling trial.
In a Truth Social post last week,...
Earlier this month, Smith’s team filed a motion for a partial gag-order on Trump’s public statements to bar him from attacking prosecutors, witnesses and others in ways that would threaten the integrity of the election meddling trial.
In a Truth Social post last week,...
- 9/30/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Special Counsel Jack Smith has responded to a request from Donald Trump’s legal team to move the former president’s federal election interference trial to 2026, arguing to Judge Tanya Chutkan that Trump’s argument for a delayed trial “overstates” and “exaggerates” the challenges of discovery.
According to the government, which proposed a Jan. 2, 2024 start for the trial, Trump’s attorneys cite misrepresented statistics regarding the average length of the trial for Jan. 6 cases. “The defendant cites the median time from commencement to termination for jury trials of Section 371 charges...
According to the government, which proposed a Jan. 2, 2024 start for the trial, Trump’s attorneys cite misrepresented statistics regarding the average length of the trial for Jan. 6 cases. “The defendant cites the median time from commencement to termination for jury trials of Section 371 charges...
- 8/21/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation appears to be zeroing in on Sidney Powell, a conspiracy-theory-obsessed lawyer who was a key figure in Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Four sources with knowledge of the matter, several witnesses, and Trump allies who’ve appeared before the special counsel — including at least one in the past few days — team seem to agree: Powell should be preparing now for Smith to bring criminal charges.
On Monday, Bernie Kerik — a longtime Rudy Giuliani associate and a Trump ally who worked on...
Four sources with knowledge of the matter, several witnesses, and Trump allies who’ve appeared before the special counsel — including at least one in the past few days — team seem to agree: Powell should be preparing now for Smith to bring criminal charges.
On Monday, Bernie Kerik — a longtime Rudy Giuliani associate and a Trump ally who worked on...
- 8/11/2023
- by Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley
- Rollingstone.com
Special Counsel Jack Smith issued a warrant to Twitter in January to gain access to former president’ Trump’s Twitter account. According to a report from Politico citing court documents, the company’s resistance to comply with the order resulted in a $350,000 fine, which was upheld by the D.C. Court of Appeals.
According to the ruling, Twitter “initially delayed production of the materials required by the search warrant while it unsuccessfully litigated objections to the nondisclosure order. Although Twitter ultimately complied with the warrant, the company did not fully...
According to the ruling, Twitter “initially delayed production of the materials required by the search warrant while it unsuccessfully litigated objections to the nondisclosure order. Although Twitter ultimately complied with the warrant, the company did not fully...
- 8/9/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Special counsel Jack Smith rejected Donald Trump’s plea to postpone his criminal trial for his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate post-presidency.
Earlier this week, Trump implored a federal court to delay on setting a date, arguing that it would be virtually impossible to seat an impartial jury while he remains a presidential candidate. Attorneys for Trump and Walt Nauta, his personal aide and co-defendant, previously claimed that the “existing discovery production” would take “considerable time and effort” to adequately review.
Smith and his team denounced Trump’s attempt at special treatment,...
Earlier this week, Trump implored a federal court to delay on setting a date, arguing that it would be virtually impossible to seat an impartial jury while he remains a presidential candidate. Attorneys for Trump and Walt Nauta, his personal aide and co-defendant, previously claimed that the “existing discovery production” would take “considerable time and effort” to adequately review.
Smith and his team denounced Trump’s attempt at special treatment,...
- 7/14/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Special Counsel Jack Smith may have already charged Donald Trump for hoarding classified material, but the Mar-a-Lago probe is not the only Justice Department investigation into the former president. According to CNN, Smith has traded partial immunity for the testimony of two fake electors in the probe into the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The individuals reportedly testified before a Washington, D.C., grand jury empaneled by Smith to investigate Trump’s efforts to override his election loss and his role in the events of Jan. 6.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election,...
The individuals reportedly testified before a Washington, D.C., grand jury empaneled by Smith to investigate Trump’s efforts to override his election loss and his role in the events of Jan. 6.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election,...
- 6/23/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s role on Jan. 6 has launched a probe into allegations the former president and his allies defrauded donors by touting false claims of election fraud. According to a report from The Washington Post, Smith’s office has issued a series of wide-ranging subpoenas to Trump advisers and former campaign staff requesting materials on the matter.
Sources tell the Post that the investigation is honing in on $200 million dollars generated by Trump and various Pac’s during the period between Nov. 3, 2020 and Jan.
Sources tell the Post that the investigation is honing in on $200 million dollars generated by Trump and various Pac’s during the period between Nov. 3, 2020 and Jan.
- 4/12/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Jaclyn Smith is an American actress and designer. She is best known for her role in Charlie’s Angels, her Kmart fashion and skincare lines.
Jaclyn Smith Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Jaclyn Smith was born on October 26, 1945 (Jaclyn Smith: age 77) in Houston, Texas. Her parents were Margaret Ellen and Jack Smith (of Russian-Jewish heritage). In 1964 she graduated from Mirabeau B. Lamar High School and went to study psychology and drama at Trinity University. After one year she transferred to Balanchine School of American Ballet.
Her first acting roles consisted of modeling for commercials and ads, including Listerine and Breck Shampoo in 1971. A few years later she joined her future co-star Farrah Fawcett as a spokesmodel for Wella Balsam Shampoo. Her first movies consisted of Goodbye, Columbus (1969), The Adventurers (1970), Probe (1972) and Bootleggers (1974) before starting her role as Kelly Garrett in Charlie’s Angels.
In her exclusive interview with uInterview, Smith discussed...
Jaclyn Smith Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Jaclyn Smith was born on October 26, 1945 (Jaclyn Smith: age 77) in Houston, Texas. Her parents were Margaret Ellen and Jack Smith (of Russian-Jewish heritage). In 1964 she graduated from Mirabeau B. Lamar High School and went to study psychology and drama at Trinity University. After one year she transferred to Balanchine School of American Ballet.
Her first acting roles consisted of modeling for commercials and ads, including Listerine and Breck Shampoo in 1971. A few years later she joined her future co-star Farrah Fawcett as a spokesmodel for Wella Balsam Shampoo. Her first movies consisted of Goodbye, Columbus (1969), The Adventurers (1970), Probe (1972) and Bootleggers (1974) before starting her role as Kelly Garrett in Charlie’s Angels.
In her exclusive interview with uInterview, Smith discussed...
- 3/5/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
We are in a unique moment in American history.
There are currently four criminal investigations into the former president of the United States: two federal, one in Georgia, and one in New York. This novel situation has led to a debate not just in the walls of academe but amongst the citizenry as to whether prosecuting a former president will reduce our country to a so-called banana republic, or whether the very act of not prosecuting the former president would lead to that result. And just as important, how will Jack Smith, the designated Special Counsel in charge of the federal Trump investigations, weigh this issue in deciding whether or not to bring charges? Will the collateral consequences to the country be considered at all, and if so, which way will they cut, for or against prosecution?
In answering this question, it is useful to do something we are unaccustomed...
There are currently four criminal investigations into the former president of the United States: two federal, one in Georgia, and one in New York. This novel situation has led to a debate not just in the walls of academe but amongst the citizenry as to whether prosecuting a former president will reduce our country to a so-called banana republic, or whether the very act of not prosecuting the former president would lead to that result. And just as important, how will Jack Smith, the designated Special Counsel in charge of the federal Trump investigations, weigh this issue in deciding whether or not to bring charges? Will the collateral consequences to the country be considered at all, and if so, which way will they cut, for or against prosecution?
In answering this question, it is useful to do something we are unaccustomed...
- 3/1/2023
- by Andrew Weissmann
- Variety Film + TV
Ivanka Trump, the former President’s daughter, and her husband, Jared Kushner, have been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating her father’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection after losing his bid for re-election, the New York Times reports.
The decision comes from special counsel, Jack Smith, who has swiftly moved to reel in several members from within Donald Trump’s inner circle. Earlier this month, former vice president Mike Pence, was hit with a subpoena following months of negotiations with Pence’s legal team and federal prosecutors. Pence plans...
The decision comes from special counsel, Jack Smith, who has swiftly moved to reel in several members from within Donald Trump’s inner circle. Earlier this month, former vice president Mike Pence, was hit with a subpoena following months of negotiations with Pence’s legal team and federal prosecutors. Pence plans...
- 2/22/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Since early January, several of Donald Trump’s close advisers, including some of his own lawyers, have met with the former president to deliver him the same stark warning. In at least three meetings this year, according to two sources familiar with the matter, legal and political counselors to Trump have urged him to dump Evan Corcoran, one of the ex-president’s top attorneys in the federal probe into Trump’s handling of classified documents.
Some of the former president’s lawyers have explicitly told Trump that, based on information they have privately reviewed,...
Some of the former president’s lawyers have explicitly told Trump that, based on information they have privately reviewed,...
- 2/20/2023
- by Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump’s creativity knows no bounds when it comes to documents. He’s torn them up and scattered them. He’s tried to flush them down the toilet. He’s absconded from the White House with hundreds of classified ones, setting off a Justice Department investigation that is still ongoing months after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago last August. Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore told CNN on Sunday that the former president had been using one particular item of interest to the DOJ as a lamp shade.
“He has one of...
“He has one of...
- 2/13/2023
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
The FBI discovered more classified material during a search of Mike Pence’s home on Friday, according to the Associated Press. The search came after an aide found around a dozen classified documents in the Indiana home of the former vice president last month.
Devin O’Malley, a Pence adviser, said the FBI conducted “a thorough and unrestricted search of five hours,” removing “one document with classified markings and six additional pages without such markings that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president’s counsel.”
The search...
Devin O’Malley, a Pence adviser, said the FBI conducted “a thorough and unrestricted search of five hours,” removing “one document with classified markings and six additional pages without such markings that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president’s counsel.”
The search...
- 2/10/2023
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel tasked with the investigations of former President Donald Trump.
ABC News first reported on the subpoena, and its reporting was confirmed by multiple news outlets.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed in November, is investigating whether Trump or his associates mishandled classified documents and then engaged in obstruction as the government sought their return. Smith also is investigating the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
As was seen during the January 6th Committee hearings, Pence resisted Trump’s pressure to block the certification of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, as he concluded that the vice president did not have the authority to do so. Pence did not testify before the committee, but his associates did. Pence did write about the events in his book published last year.
Pence is a potential candidate for president in 2024.
At its final hearing in December,...
ABC News first reported on the subpoena, and its reporting was confirmed by multiple news outlets.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed in November, is investigating whether Trump or his associates mishandled classified documents and then engaged in obstruction as the government sought their return. Smith also is investigating the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
As was seen during the January 6th Committee hearings, Pence resisted Trump’s pressure to block the certification of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, as he concluded that the vice president did not have the authority to do so. Pence did not testify before the committee, but his associates did. Pence did write about the events in his book published last year.
Pence is a potential candidate for president in 2024.
At its final hearing in December,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Since the creation of the camera and the dawn of cinema, film has been one long experiment. Experimental film has often been defined through its rejection of traditional storytelling and structure, its defiance of logic or reason while creating mesmerizing scenes through dreamlike abstraction and subjective narrative.
A key figure in the early history of experimental film was the French filmmaker Georges Méliès. In the late 1890s and early 1900s, Méliès was one of the first filmmakers to use special effects and trick photography to create fantastical and surreal images on the screen. His films, such as A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage, were some of the first examples of what would later be called experimental film. Another important trailblazer during the silent era was female director Lois Weber who is credited in creating an estimated 200 to 400 films. She was credited with pioneering the use of the...
A key figure in the early history of experimental film was the French filmmaker Georges Méliès. In the late 1890s and early 1900s, Méliès was one of the first filmmakers to use special effects and trick photography to create fantastical and surreal images on the screen. His films, such as A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage, were some of the first examples of what would later be called experimental film. Another important trailblazer during the silent era was female director Lois Weber who is credited in creating an estimated 200 to 400 films. She was credited with pioneering the use of the...
- 1/19/2023
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
Melania Trump has a history of not wanting to hold her husband’s hand.
One of the most well-known instances was when French President Emmanuel Macron visited the White House in 2018.
First Lady Melania Trump had another awkward hand-holding moment with husband Donald Trump as they welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte. pic.twitter.com/RyWEhi8uYE
— People (@people) April 24, 2018
At Donald Trump‘s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, it happened again. She can be seen holding Trump’s hand for a minute or two before finally pulling away and wiping her hands together.
Kellyanne Conway recently revealed that Melania is the only person the former president “fears.”
Sweaty palms. Stressful times. pic.twitter.com/rQxIOJ4fbh
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 7, 2023
At the moment, Trump has quite a bit to sweat about.
On January 9, the special grand jury in Georgia that has been looking into...
One of the most well-known instances was when French President Emmanuel Macron visited the White House in 2018.
First Lady Melania Trump had another awkward hand-holding moment with husband Donald Trump as they welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte. pic.twitter.com/RyWEhi8uYE
— People (@people) April 24, 2018
At Donald Trump‘s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, it happened again. She can be seen holding Trump’s hand for a minute or two before finally pulling away and wiping her hands together.
Kellyanne Conway recently revealed that Melania is the only person the former president “fears.”
Sweaty palms. Stressful times. pic.twitter.com/rQxIOJ4fbh
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 7, 2023
At the moment, Trump has quite a bit to sweat about.
On January 9, the special grand jury in Georgia that has been looking into...
- 1/12/2023
- by Alex Nguyen
- Uinterview
Attorney General Merrick Garland named Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate how batches of classified documents ended up at an office of President Joe Biden and at his home in Wilmington.
Hur was previously a federal prosecutor appointed during the Trump administration, serving as U.S. attorney for the district of Maryland.
The initial batch of documents were found at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., where Biden maintained an office after serving as vice president. Garland said that the National Archives’ inspector general informed a DOJ prosecutor on Nov. 4 that it got word from the White House that the documents had been identified at the offices. Garland said that he appointed Chicago U.S. Attorney John Lausch to conduct an initial review of the matter.
In brief remarks, Garland said that on December 20, Biden’s personal attorney informed Lausch that additional documents were found in the...
Hur was previously a federal prosecutor appointed during the Trump administration, serving as U.S. attorney for the district of Maryland.
The initial batch of documents were found at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., where Biden maintained an office after serving as vice president. Garland said that the National Archives’ inspector general informed a DOJ prosecutor on Nov. 4 that it got word from the White House that the documents had been identified at the offices. Garland said that he appointed Chicago U.S. Attorney John Lausch to conduct an initial review of the matter.
In brief remarks, Garland said that on December 20, Biden’s personal attorney informed Lausch that additional documents were found in the...
- 1/12/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theory minion and ex-lawyer, received a grand jury subpoena asking him to hand over records related to Trump’s fundraising after the 2020 election, a person familiar with the subpoena told CNN.
The subpoena, which was issued in November, is part of an investigation into disbursements from the Save America Pac, Trump’s primary fundraising vehicle established after the 2020 election. The records requested in the inquiry include documents from Giuliani about payments he received when he filed numerous lawsuits on Trump’s behalf contesting the 2020 election results,...
The subpoena, which was issued in November, is part of an investigation into disbursements from the Save America Pac, Trump’s primary fundraising vehicle established after the 2020 election. The records requested in the inquiry include documents from Giuliani about payments he received when he filed numerous lawsuits on Trump’s behalf contesting the 2020 election results,...
- 1/10/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Strickland's Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) is now showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting December 7, 2022, in the series Brief Encounters.The DVD commentary is already becoming an antiquated supplement to home entertainment with the dominance of streaming, but during its brief few decades, the revelations and confessions from directors along with assorted colleagues unlocked a hitherto closed world for the majority of viewers. The director’s commentary not only functioned as a nuts-and-bolts technical and thematic dissection of what was on the screen, but more revealingly, it veered into the confessional. A lot of commentaries, especially when it comes to reissues/restorations, are recorded many years after filming, and directors no longer have to be in promotion mode, which usually involves pretending everyone got along and everything went perfectly. With the safety buffer of a few decades, mistakes that were made in any given film...
- 12/6/2022
- MUBI
In the “Morning Joe” studio Monday, former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal made clear that he believes former President Donald Trump will be indicted by this second special counsel investigation, which focuses on the classified documents found in his Mar-a-Lago house and role in inciting the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol.
“At the end of the day, I expect that Donald Trump will be indicted by the special counsel,” Katyal said, calling Mar-a-Lago an “open and shut investigation.”
This discussion comes after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to head the investigations surrounding former President Donald Trump on Friday. Smith’s appointment came just three days after Trump launched his third White House run.
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Katyal explained that in some ways, Smith’s role is similar to the role of former FBI Director Robert Mueller,...
“At the end of the day, I expect that Donald Trump will be indicted by the special counsel,” Katyal said, calling Mar-a-Lago an “open and shut investigation.”
This discussion comes after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped federal prosecutor Jack Smith as special counsel to head the investigations surrounding former President Donald Trump on Friday. Smith’s appointment came just three days after Trump launched his third White House run.
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Katyal explained that in some ways, Smith’s role is similar to the role of former FBI Director Robert Mueller,...
- 11/21/2022
- by Aarohi Sheth
- The Wrap
Updated with Jack Smith, Donald Trump statements: Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee investigations into former President Donald Trump.
Citing Trump’s recently announced presidential bid and Joe Biden’s intention to run for re-election, Garland said, “I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel.”
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“Such an appointment underscores the Department’s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters,” Garland said. “It also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work expeditiously, and to make decisions indisputably...
Citing Trump’s recently announced presidential bid and Joe Biden’s intention to run for re-election, Garland said, “I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel.”
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“Such an appointment underscores the Department’s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters,” Garland said. “It also allows prosecutors and agents to continue their work expeditiously, and to make decisions indisputably...
- 11/18/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed former Department of Justice Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith as special counsel to determine whether criminal charges stemming from Justice Department investigations should be brought against Donald Trump.
Garland announced in a Friday briefing that Smith will determine if “any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or with the certification of electoral college vote held on or about Jan. 6” and will “conduct the investigation involving classified documents and other presidential records as well as the possible obstruction of that investigation.
Garland announced in a Friday briefing that Smith will determine if “any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or with the certification of electoral college vote held on or about Jan. 6” and will “conduct the investigation involving classified documents and other presidential records as well as the possible obstruction of that investigation.
- 11/18/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film Forum
One of the most exciting series of 2022 is a study of the Taiwanese New Wave that goes beyond Hou, Yang, and Tsai—included though they are—while a print of Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc? plays Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Documentary filmmaker Noriaki Tsuchimoto is given his first-ever U.S. retrospective, while the director’s cut of Donnie Darko screens on Friday and Home for the Holidays shows this Saturday.
Anthology Film Archives
Films by Jim McBride are highlighted, while “Trans Film” returns.
Roxy Cinema
The Rapture and Eve’s Bayou play on 35mm this weekend; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday; Jack Smith’s Normal Love has a 16mm screening this Sunday
Museum of Modern Art
A series on Filipino filmmaker Mike De Leon continues.
IFC Center
Cronenberg’s Rabid, Night of the Living Dead,...
Film Forum
One of the most exciting series of 2022 is a study of the Taiwanese New Wave that goes beyond Hou, Yang, and Tsai—included though they are—while a print of Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc? plays Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Documentary filmmaker Noriaki Tsuchimoto is given his first-ever U.S. retrospective, while the director’s cut of Donnie Darko screens on Friday and Home for the Holidays shows this Saturday.
Anthology Film Archives
Films by Jim McBride are highlighted, while “Trans Film” returns.
Roxy Cinema
The Rapture and Eve’s Bayou play on 35mm this weekend; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday; Jack Smith’s Normal Love has a 16mm screening this Sunday
Museum of Modern Art
A series on Filipino filmmaker Mike De Leon continues.
IFC Center
Cronenberg’s Rabid, Night of the Living Dead,...
- 11/18/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Bhubaneswar, Nov 4 (Ians) India scored six goals in a row from the start of the second quarter to midway through the fourth to storm brilliantly back from a 1-3 deficit to overpower New Zealand 7-4 in a thrilling encounter in the Men’s Fih Pro League Season Four cluster at the Kalinga Stadium here on Friday.
Having opened their Fih Pro League 2022-23 campaign with a 4-3 win against the same New Zealand squad, scored twice through drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh and Karthi Selvam while Raj Kumar Pal, Sukhjeet Singh, and Jugraj Singh contributed one goal each to India’s score. Simon Child, Sam Lane, Jack Smith and Nic Woods scored for New Zealand in the 11-goal thriller.
New Zealand, who had lost 3-2 to Spain, started their second match against India with more purpose and determination but the final outcome of the match left their coach Greg Nicol with a...
Having opened their Fih Pro League 2022-23 campaign with a 4-3 win against the same New Zealand squad, scored twice through drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh and Karthi Selvam while Raj Kumar Pal, Sukhjeet Singh, and Jugraj Singh contributed one goal each to India’s score. Simon Child, Sam Lane, Jack Smith and Nic Woods scored for New Zealand in the 11-goal thriller.
New Zealand, who had lost 3-2 to Spain, started their second match against India with more purpose and determination but the final outcome of the match left their coach Greg Nicol with a...
- 11/4/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
From the soul-searching of “My Winnipeg” to reimagining Bram Stoker as a dance movie for “Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary,” Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin has singularly made the movies he’s wanted to make for nearly four decades. There’s no one else quite like the cult director, who deploys tropes of Old Hollywood, from silent films to the talkies, in a language utterly his own. His first feature, “Tales from the Gimli Hospital,” had a midnight movie run after premiering in 1988 but has proven a rare find — until now, as Zeitgeist Films is releasing a new 4K restoration of the black-and-white, hour-long feature.
It’s one of Maddin’s nuttiest experiments and a blueprint for the sort of stories he’d go on to tell. Set in the eponymous unincorporated village in Manitoba, “Gimli” centers on a fisherman who brings a smallpox epidemic to his community. The...
It’s one of Maddin’s nuttiest experiments and a blueprint for the sort of stories he’d go on to tell. Set in the eponymous unincorporated village in Manitoba, “Gimli” centers on a fisherman who brings a smallpox epidemic to his community. The...
- 10/14/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Netflix has debuted the trailer for the upcoming animation ‘My Father’s Dragon’ which premiere’s at the BFI London Film Festival on October 8th.
From five-time Academy Award®-nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon and Academy Award®-nominated director Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner), comes an exquisite film inspired by the Newbery-honored children’s book from author Ruth Stiles Gannett. Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
The film features the vocal talent of Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Mary Kay Place, Leighton Meester, Spence Moore II, Adam Brody, Charlyne Yi, Maggie Lincoln, Jack Smith, Whoopi Goldberg,...
From five-time Academy Award®-nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon and Academy Award®-nominated director Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner), comes an exquisite film inspired by the Newbery-honored children’s book from author Ruth Stiles Gannett. Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
The film features the vocal talent of Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dianne Wiest, Rita Moreno, Chris O’Dowd, Judy Greer, Alan Cumming, Yara Shahidi, Jackie Earle Haley, Mary Kay Place, Leighton Meester, Spence Moore II, Adam Brody, Charlyne Yi, Maggie Lincoln, Jack Smith, Whoopi Goldberg,...
- 9/29/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Don't worry, because I'm coming with you - we're going to do it together." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for My Father's Dragon, the latest film made by the outstanding animation studio Cartoon Saloon - creators of The Secret of Kells, The Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner, and Wolfwalkers. This premieres at the 2022 London Film Festival before it lands of Netflix in November this fall. My Father’s Dragon adapts the eponymous Newbery-honored children's book from author Ruth Stiles Gannett. The story centers on a young boy who is struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother. In his frustration, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon waiting to be rescued. The boy's adventures see him experience encounters with ferocious beasts, a mysterious island, and an enduring friendship. With a huge voice cast featuring Jacob Tremblay, Gaten Matarazzo, Golshifteh Farahani,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Some called him the godfather of underground film.” “My guest tonight is Jonas Mekas, who was first of all a poet before he was a filmmaker.” “His name is Jonas Mekas, a man who I think more than almost anybody in the world epitomizes the meaning and significance of independent filmmaking.”
Those are some of the TV news voiceover soundbites that open Kd Davison’s documentary about the great ringleader of American avant-garde cinema. It’s not an auspicious beginning. How can a doc about someone who championed pushing the boundaries of filmmaking to their limit get such a prosaic and obvious introduction for a film about his life? Certainly his 96 years were more than a sum of media reports from broadcasters who barely grasped his work. Not to mention, if you’re devoting the time to watch a documentary about the Lithuanian-born curator, poet, and filmmaker, you probably already know the basics about him,...
Those are some of the TV news voiceover soundbites that open Kd Davison’s documentary about the great ringleader of American avant-garde cinema. It’s not an auspicious beginning. How can a doc about someone who championed pushing the boundaries of filmmaking to their limit get such a prosaic and obvious introduction for a film about his life? Certainly his 96 years were more than a sum of media reports from broadcasters who barely grasped his work. Not to mention, if you’re devoting the time to watch a documentary about the Lithuanian-born curator, poet, and filmmaker, you probably already know the basics about him,...
- 9/2/2022
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
The Three Colors: Red restoration debuts as Three Colors: Blue and Three Colors: White continue.
Paris Theater
Prints of High and Low, The Haunting, and The World According to Garp play in a “Directors Selects” series, which also offers Coppola’s Dracula.
Film Forum
To mark the great Alain Resnias’ centennial, a massive retrospective continues with Marienbad, Hiroshima, Je t’aime, je t’aime, and some of his lesser-seen (but no less great) features—The War Is Over and Stavisky—while Dr. Strangelove plays.
Bam
Obayashi’s Anti-War Trilogy—Hanagatami, Seven Weeks, and Casting Blossoms to the Sky—has screenings this weekend.
Museum of the Moving Image
Tron and Sleeping Beauty play on 70mm this weekend, while a series of zombie films screen.
Roxy Cinema
The series “Woman as Witch” offers 35mm prints of Bitter Moon,...
Film at Lincoln Center
The Three Colors: Red restoration debuts as Three Colors: Blue and Three Colors: White continue.
Paris Theater
Prints of High and Low, The Haunting, and The World According to Garp play in a “Directors Selects” series, which also offers Coppola’s Dracula.
Film Forum
To mark the great Alain Resnias’ centennial, a massive retrospective continues with Marienbad, Hiroshima, Je t’aime, je t’aime, and some of his lesser-seen (but no less great) features—The War Is Over and Stavisky—while Dr. Strangelove plays.
Bam
Obayashi’s Anti-War Trilogy—Hanagatami, Seven Weeks, and Casting Blossoms to the Sky—has screenings this weekend.
Museum of the Moving Image
Tron and Sleeping Beauty play on 70mm this weekend, while a series of zombie films screen.
Roxy Cinema
The series “Woman as Witch” offers 35mm prints of Bitter Moon,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Pink Flamingos
Blu ray
Criterion
1972 / 1:66:1 / 93 Min.
Starring Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
Written by John Waters
Directed by John Waters
In 1980, J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum began an exploration into those elusive films that could only be seen at the witching hour—a time when most theaters were closed and, it was implied, most decent people were home in bed. Published in 1983, their book was a catalogue of curios that defied categorization until Rosenbaum and Hoberman named them: Midnight Movies. But even alongside renegade efforts like Jodorowsky’s El Topo and Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures, John Waters’ Pink Flamingos stood out as the tarnished gold standard for transgressive entertainment; it felt then, and it feels now, like a genuinely lawless movie—as of this writing, it remains banned in the town of Hicksville, New York.
A gender-bending satire of a great republic’s rush to the bottom,...
Blu ray
Criterion
1972 / 1:66:1 / 93 Min.
Starring Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
Written by John Waters
Directed by John Waters
In 1980, J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum began an exploration into those elusive films that could only be seen at the witching hour—a time when most theaters were closed and, it was implied, most decent people were home in bed. Published in 1983, their book was a catalogue of curios that defied categorization until Rosenbaum and Hoberman named them: Midnight Movies. But even alongside renegade efforts like Jodorowsky’s El Topo and Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures, John Waters’ Pink Flamingos stood out as the tarnished gold standard for transgressive entertainment; it felt then, and it feels now, like a genuinely lawless movie—as of this writing, it remains banned in the town of Hicksville, New York.
A gender-bending satire of a great republic’s rush to the bottom,...
- 7/16/2022
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Trixi (1971).“When I first saw Steve’s films, I actually very often had to leave the cinema,” Laura Mulvey once recalled. Dwoskin’s shorts and early features, shown in alternative venues around London in the late 1960s and early ’70s, tended to show a woman alone in a room, often naked, responding to the camera, sometimes seducing it: Alone (1964), Soliloquy (1964/7), Take Me (1969), Moment (1969), and Girl (1971)... At the time she saw them, Mulvey was working on what became her famous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” published in 1975. Having been repelled at first, she began to find that Dwoskin’s films “opened a completely new perspective for me on cinematic voyeurism.” The first draft included a section discussing them, particularly the half-hour Trixi (1971), an “overtly ‘voyeuristic’ film” in which the seduction is consummated. In Mulvey’s words, Dwoskin’s handheld camera facilitated his “intimate involvement as an equal participant in the erotic drama,...
- 6/16/2022
- MUBI
By Giacomo Selloni
If you are like me, you probably have a nostalgic heart. The fact that you read Cinema Retro is a major clue. Have you ever yearned to spend an evening in the past, a la Gil (Owen Wilson) in Woody Allen's “Midnight in Paris?” What if I told you how to experience an evening with Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Marion Davies, Will Rogers and Florenz Ziegfeld for a show at his famous theater that is hosted by Eddie Cantor? Would you go?
While real life can not actually bring you back in time to do so, Cynthia Von Buhler can, and has, with her new iTheater production “Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic” current running on Friday and Saturday evenings at the Liberty Theater on 42nd Street in NYC. Cynthia's previous interactive and immersive shows “The Bloody Beginning” and “The Brothers Booth” were wonderful productions that brought audience members...
If you are like me, you probably have a nostalgic heart. The fact that you read Cinema Retro is a major clue. Have you ever yearned to spend an evening in the past, a la Gil (Owen Wilson) in Woody Allen's “Midnight in Paris?” What if I told you how to experience an evening with Josephine Baker, Fanny Brice, Marion Davies, Will Rogers and Florenz Ziegfeld for a show at his famous theater that is hosted by Eddie Cantor? Would you go?
While real life can not actually bring you back in time to do so, Cynthia Von Buhler can, and has, with her new iTheater production “Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic” current running on Friday and Saturday evenings at the Liberty Theater on 42nd Street in NYC. Cynthia's previous interactive and immersive shows “The Bloody Beginning” and “The Brothers Booth” were wonderful productions that brought audience members...
- 6/15/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
As previously reported, the musical Ghostlight, by Tim Realbuto and Matthew Martin, which had two starry backer's auditions on December 2nd at the The New 42nd Street Studios in NYC, has added a 29- hour industry reading next month due to popular demand. This is one of the first times a new musical has added another presentation nearly a month after its first one. The December 2nd evening was directed by Martin and Realbuto and featured an all-star cast which included 'That's So Raven's' Anneliese van der Pol as Olive Thomas, Three-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello as Billie Burke, Tony nominee Robert Cuccioli as Ziegfeld, 'Pippin' star Rachel Bay Jones as Molly Cook, Kimberly Faye Greenberg as Fanny Brice, and Trevor McQueen as Jack Pickford.
- 12/16/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Robert Cuccioli, the Tony nominated star of Jekyll and Hyde, will play Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. in an upcoming industry reading of the musical Ghostlight. Ghostlight, which has book, music and lyrics by Matthew Martin and Tim Realbuto, tells the true story of Ziegfeld Follies girl and silent film star Olive Thomas, her rise to fame in the Follies alongside Fanny Brice, her affair with a married Ziegfeld, her Hollywood marriage to movie star Jack Pickford, and ultimately her tragic downfall which led to her mysterious death at age 25 in Paris.
- 8/30/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Goose Woman (1925), directed by Clarence Brown, just screened at the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, accompanied by one of the finest and most remarkable live scores it's ever been my privilege to experience. Jane Gardner's soundtrack, incorporating piano, violin and drums, but also baby cries and a musical saw, was so good I wondered if it might be causing me to overrate the movie, in essence a moderately soapy melodrama, but the fact that no less a figure than Kevin Brownlow, who rediscovered and restored the lost film and supplied the print for the screening, considers it one of his very favorites, reassures me that I haven't taken leave of my critical faculties in a musical rapture.
The plot derives from a true-life murder case, still unsolved, but such open-ended stories have never been Hollywood's bag so this Universal production wraps things up neatly by the end. Part...
The plot derives from a true-life murder case, still unsolved, but such open-ended stories have never been Hollywood's bag so this Universal production wraps things up neatly by the end. Part...
- 3/21/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Nick Zedd, founder of the Cinema of Transgression, is currently raising funds for his latest feature film, Love Spasm, a drama about wayward young adults trying to get by in Berlin.
For the past few years, Zedd had been focusing on his public access superhero show The Adventures of Electra Elf and Fluffer and working on his painting career. So, this is a highly anticipated return to longform filmmaking. If you’d like to contribute, please visit the Love Spasm fundraising page on Kickstarter.
Zedd describes the film as being primarily about an artist named Eric who is involved in a variety of unfulfilling sexual relationships with women. Eric’s main squeeze is a heroin-addicted peep show worker, but he also regularly visits several other lovers.
The way Zedd describes the film is particularly interesting as it seems, in part, to channel his one-time mentor, Jack Smith, especially in the...
For the past few years, Zedd had been focusing on his public access superhero show The Adventures of Electra Elf and Fluffer and working on his painting career. So, this is a highly anticipated return to longform filmmaking. If you’d like to contribute, please visit the Love Spasm fundraising page on Kickstarter.
Zedd describes the film as being primarily about an artist named Eric who is involved in a variety of unfulfilling sexual relationships with women. Eric’s main squeeze is a heroin-addicted peep show worker, but he also regularly visits several other lovers.
The way Zedd describes the film is particularly interesting as it seems, in part, to channel his one-time mentor, Jack Smith, especially in the...
- 10/5/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Paramount Pictures has acquired a spec script from Andrew Burg (Bedtime Stories, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) called Huck and Finn. The studio is planning to take Mark Twain's two classic literary characters, and give them a 21st century modern day makeover, which seems ridiculous, but could end up being cool. You never know with these kinds of films.
The only information we have to go off of is that it's a reimagining of these classic characters in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, and it will focus on the pair as adults. THR also says that there are supernatural elements in the story as well.
I love these 19th century characters that were created by Twain. Growing up I would read those books over and over again. It was amazing fun reading about the adventures that they lived in these novels. I related more to Huck Finn than I did Tom Sawyer,...
The only information we have to go off of is that it's a reimagining of these classic characters in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, and it will focus on the pair as adults. THR also says that there are supernatural elements in the story as well.
I love these 19th century characters that were created by Twain. Growing up I would read those books over and over again. It was amazing fun reading about the adventures that they lived in these novels. I related more to Huck Finn than I did Tom Sawyer,...
- 3/21/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The Goose Woman (1925) Direction: Clarence Brown Cast: Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, Constance Bennett, Marc McDermott, George Nichols, Gustav von Seyffertitz Screenplay: Melville W. Brown, titles by Dwinelle Benthall; from Rex Beach's story Highly Recommended Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford, The Goose Woman At the 2011 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the Clarence Brown-directed 1925 Universal release The Goose Woman was introduced by author and film historian Kevin Brownlow. For me, Brown's family drama was the best film I saw at this year's festival. [Spoilers ahead.] Based on a Rex Beach story (itself inspired by a real-life murder trial), The Goose Woman stars future Best Actress Academy Award nominee Louise Dresser as Mary Holmes, a former opera star known as Marie de Nardi. Once the toast of Paris, Mary is now a drunken slattern, living in an old farmhouse where she raises geese. She openly resents her son, Gerald (Jack Pickford), whom she bitterly...
- 9/9/2011
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
Today's generation is surrounded by technology. Rapidly-advancing tools of all sorts are so prevalent in every aspect of our lives that we depend on them, nay, expect them to make our lives easier, more enjoyable, and more interesting. Multi-billion dollar industries such as cinema are in no way immune from the public's desire for bigger and better things. Moviegoers have the options of watching films in a variety of locales, in IMAX or 3D, via regular projection screens or the latest in digital picture. For those who prefer to stay close to home, the options multiply. Satellite TV, cable TV, Redbox, a widespread availability of DVDs, and even the disappearing neighborhood rental store all combine to contain every movie that the discerning film aficionado could ever hope to watch, available at the push of a button or a short drive up the street.
Well... almost every movie. It may seem...
Well... almost every movie. It may seem...
- 1/21/2011
- Shadowlocked
So, I’ve been thinking a lot about that Douglas Rushkoff video interview I embedded the other day, the one in which he counters the myth that all online content is “free.” However, prior to discussing the issue of “free,” Rushkoff also mentioned how the Internet has evolved over the past 20 years or so from a free-form place of personal expression to a highly-structured, commodified marketplace.
In many ways, Bad Lit follows exactly the evolution that Rushkoff maps out, from being a goofy HTML-based hobby of self-expression to a very rigid website that delivers advertising to its visitors. (And by “rigid” I mean in navigational structure and in that I only write about one topic anymore.)
But, on the other hand, as Internet technology has improved over the years, the ability for underground filmmakers to share their works of personal expression with a large and nearly infinite audience has increased dramatically.
In many ways, Bad Lit follows exactly the evolution that Rushkoff maps out, from being a goofy HTML-based hobby of self-expression to a very rigid website that delivers advertising to its visitors. (And by “rigid” I mean in navigational structure and in that I only write about one topic anymore.)
But, on the other hand, as Internet technology has improved over the years, the ability for underground filmmakers to share their works of personal expression with a large and nearly infinite audience has increased dramatically.
- 3/2/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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