QPORIT

GATZ is an amazing adaptation of an old American Classic book. The tremendous Scott Shepherd is reprising GATZ, the "Elevator Repair Service" performance of a word for word "reading" and on-stage becoming of THE GREAT GATSBY.

>>"One morning in the shabby office of a mysterious small business, an employee (Scott Shepherd) finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter on his desk. He starts to read it out loud and doesn't stop. At first his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences, it's no longer clear whether he's reading the book, or the book is transforming him into its narrator. "

It's about six hours long, (plus about 90 min to go out for dinner at an intermission), at the NYU Skirball Center (nyuskirball.org) . The almost 8 hour immersion in this interpretation and this story and this performance is a powerful, unforgettable and uniquely affecting audience experience.

If you've ever wondered what THE GREAT GATSBY is really about, check out this theater treasure.


THE GREAT GATSBY - WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby


SCOTT SHEPHERD - IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791864/


NYU SKIRBALL CENTER
nyuskirball.org


ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE - WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Repair_Service


ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE - HOME PAGE
https://www.elevator.org/


GATZ TICKETS
https://nyuskirball.org/events/elevator-repair-service-gatz/

Labels: adaptation, classic novel, Elevator Repair Service, GATZ, Scott Shepherd, Skirball Center, THE GREAT GATSBY, theater

Peter Masterson was one of the nicest people I ever interviewed. I am sorry he is gone.  He was intelligent, friendly, encouraging, and skilled as an actor, director and writer.  

He was married to the actress Carlin Glynn. The cinematographer Peter Masterson is his son, and the actress Mary Stuart Masterson is his daughter.  I interviewed Mary Stuart when her fine film, The Cake Eaters, was shown at the Stony Brook Film Festival. I was glad, at the time, to be able to tell her how much I liked her father.

Peter Masterson was best known for his Tony nominated adaptation and direction of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. (He won the Drama Desk Award for Best Director. Carlin Glynn won both the Tony and Theater World Awards for Featured Actress.) He also directed the film Trip To Bountiful, which won an Oscar for Geraldine Page, which was adapted by his cousin, Horton Foote, who had written the original stage play. Peter played Katharine Ross' husband in the original adaptation of Stepford Wives. Mary Stuart, then just 10, made her film debut as his daughter in that film.



PETER MASTERSON - WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Masterson


PETER MASTERSON - IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557751/


QPORIT: MARY STUART MASTERSON AND THE CAKE EATERS
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2008/07/mary-stuart-masterson-and-cake-eaters.html

Labels: broadway, Carlin Glynn, Drama Desk Award, Mary Stuart Masterson, Oscar, Peter Masterson, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Cake Eaters, Tony Award, Trip to Bountiful

Film Comment has just announced its selections for best films of the year! 

Surprisingly, perhaps, ROMA, which has received a lot of attention and praise from many sources (and will be available on NETFLIX shortly), was only number 4 on their list.

As a magazine for international(!)  film lovers, it is not surprising that many of the films on the Film Comment list are indie and foreign films.

Interestingly, looking forward to the future, there is a second list: the best films that have appeared in film festivals this year, but that have not yet been released.

The following comes from Film Comment's FSLC Press release today:

Film Comment’s Top 20 Films Released in 2018:

1. Zama Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Brazil/Spain
2. Burning Lee Chang-dong, South Korea
3. First Reformed Paul Schrader, USA
4. ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico
5. Western Valeska Grisebach, Germany/Bulgaria
6. Shoplifters Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
7. Let the Sunshine In Claire Denis, France
8. The Other Side of the Wind Orson Welles, USA
9. Happy as Lazzaro Alice Rohrwacher, Italy
10. Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross, USA
11. Sorry to Bother You Boots Riley, USA
12. If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins, USA
13. The Rider Chloé Zhao, USA
14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Joel & Ethan Coen, USA
15. Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski, USA
16. You Were Never Really Here Lynne Ramsay, UK/France/USA
17. Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman, USA
18. Personal Problems Bill Gunn, USA
19. The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK/USA
20. BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee, USA


Film Comment’s Top 20 Unreleased Films of 2018:

1. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? Roberto Minervini, Italy/USA/France
2. La Flor Mariano Llinás, Argentina
3. Black Mother Khalik Allah, USA
4. A Family Tour Ying Liang, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia
5. Feast of the Epiphany Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA
6. América Claus Drexel, France
7. Donbass Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania
8. The Grand Bizarre Jodie Mack, USA
9. Your Face Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan
10. Casanova Gene Luise Donschen, Germany
11. Shakedown Leilah Weinraub, USA
12. The Task Leigh Ledare, USA
13. Sophia Antipolis Virgil Vernier, France
14. Second Time Around Dora García, Belgium/Norway
15. Manta Ray Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, Thailand/France/China
16. Flight of a Bullet Beata Bubenets, Russia/Latvia
17. Our Time Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Germany/Denmark/Sweden
18. Reason Anand Patwardhan, India
19. Season of the Devil Lav Diaz, Philippines
20. A Wild Stream Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda, Mexico


The nearly 100 poll participants are all Film Comment contributors from the past year and include: 

• Ina Diane Archer (The Smithsonian), 
• Ela Bittencourt (Brazil-based programmer), 
• Andrew Chan (The Criterion Collection), 
• Justin Chang (Los Angeles Times), 
• K. Austin Collins (Vanity Fair), 
• Nick Davis (FC contributing editor, Northwestern University), 
• Nicholas Elliott (Cahiers du Cinéma, BOMB), 
• Molly Haskell, 
• J. Hoberman (The New York Times), 
• Eric Hynes (FC columnist and Museum of the Moving Image curator), 
• Kristin M. Jones (The Wall Street Journal), 
• Nellie Killian (programmer and FC contributing editor), 
• Violet Lucca (Harper’s), 
• Aliza Ma (Metrograph), 
• Farran Smith Nehme (Self-Styled Siren), 
• Christina Newland, 
• Sheila O’Malley (RogerEbert.com), 
• Nick Pinkerton, 
• Jonathan Romney (FCcontributing editor), 
• Girish Shambu, 
• Imogen Sara Smith (FC columnist), 
• Amy Taubin (FC and Artforumcontributing editor), 
• Ella Taylor (NPR), 
• Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan (curator and critic), and 
• Manu Yáñez Murillo (Otros Cines Europa).

FILM COMMENT

Film Comment magazine features in-depth reviews, critical analysis, and feature coverage of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. In its bimonthly print edition, vibrant website, and popular podcast, Film Comment is at the center of film culture, and has been since 1962, when it was founded by Gordon Hitchens. Its subsequent editors include Richard Corliss, Harlan Jacobson, Richard Jameson, Gavin Smith, and, today, Nicolas Rapold. 





FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER (FSLC)

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is devoted to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema. The only branch of the world-renowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film with year-round programming and discussions; its annual New York Film Festival; and its publications, including Film Comment.


For more information, visit filmlinc.org and follow @filmlinc on Twitter.

Labels: best films 2018, Film Comment, film society of lincoln center, Films, FSLC

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born







Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Rosamund Pike (A Private War)

Labels: Golden Globes

Our first group of videos we call



More videos, including a new VR narrative short video are coming...  here to webVR!


We've been developing a webVR site to display 3D 360 VR videos: This is a BETA! (maybe even alpha and a half). 

3D 360 - These videos  should work in 3D 360 using the Oculus or Samsung browser on Oculus Go. (They will not work using the Firefox Reality browser). It may require a click with the TRACKPAD (and possibly the trigger) and a refresh to start playing. 

2D 360 - They will most likely work as 2D 360 videos with Chrome or Firefox on a desktop.  They may not work using Edge. 




FILM:
Here's a BETA! version of my{*} HIFF 2017 interview with Alison Chernick, director of last year's terrific opening night film ITZHAK! in 3D 360 VR on BETA! webVR. 




THEATER:
Here's a BETA! version of my 2018 interview with Gene Fisch, Jr,  director of the New York New Works Theatre Festival on BETA! webVR. 

Labels: 3D 360 VR Videos, Alison Chernick, Emily Penick, Gene Fisch, HIFF, INTERVUZE, ITZHAK!. interview, Jim Malcolm, Jr, New York New Works Theatre Festival, NYVR EXPO, webVR

Labels: Hampton's International Film Festival, HIFF