Abel Ferrara On Making ‘Sportin’ Life’ Documentary During Lockdown – Venice

Ben Croll World premiering this week at NewImages Festival in Paris before playing at the London Film Festival in early October, the Franco-British-Taiwanese co-production “Missing Pictures Ep.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThere is no writing credit for “Sportin’ Life,” which feels like an omission, but an apt one. On the one hand, this documentary self-portrait by rogue auteur Abel Ferrara feels wholly the product of his eccentric imagination, colored by his voice from beginning to hasty end.

Marc Anthony has had a lot to celebrate this week, as the dad-of-six has gone and made history in the music industry. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Marc revealed that his album, 3.0, has reached Diamond Status, and is the first-ever salsa album to be given this accolade.MORE: Marc Anthony's surprise visitor inside his ranch sparks reaction Alongside a photo of himself clutching his award, Marc wrote: "Wow.

Linkin Park‘s ‘A Thousand Suns’ album celebrated its 10th birthday yesterday (September 14), and the band have shared a new documentary to mark the occasion.Meeting Of A Thousand Suns is a half-hour film documenting how the band created the 2010 album. It was originally shared on DVD, and has now been released for the first time on YouTube.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorWhen ChiChi Anyanwu launched her new company Chi Talent Management, a couple of things made her new shingle stand out. For one thing: She launched it in the middle of a pandemic, when most of the news coming out of the theater business, and the entertainment industry in general, was (and remains) pretty grim.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmNetflix has closed a worldwide rights deal for the Kornél Mundruczó-directed drama Pieces Of A Woman. The film made its World Premiere at Venice and its Toronto premiere comes today at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Bronx-born, Italian-based filmmaker Abel Ferrara is a character and so is Cypriot independent movie theater owner Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou. “I do it cause it combines two things I like to do,” Nicolaou says in Ferrara’s new documentary “The Projectionist.” “Make money and keep neighborhood theaters alive.

Miriam O’Callaghan on her RTE Radio One show over the weekend, he revealed that the current climate hadn’t been as stressful for him as he met US reality star Hannah Berner and the two hit it off.Des followed Hannah on Instagram and when he saw that they were isolating in the same area, he plucked up the courage to ask her out for a coffee.He said: ‘Despite the fact that all these memes are saying, “I can’t wait for 2020 to be over”, 2020 will be the year that changed my life.‘We clicked

Over a year after Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant loosed each other’s corsets and fell in love in a French Cannes film, and less than a week before Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are due to do the same in coastal England at TIFF, Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby play American, mid-19th century secret lesbian lovers in Mona Fastvold‘s Venice competition title “The World to Come,” a beautiful and quiet, seasons-spanning tale of poetry and pining pioneerwomen.

A birthday spent during lockdown was bound to be relatively lack-lustre. With no bars, clubs or restaurants open, and no friends to see, it was most-likely a bit of a non-event.

“The documentary on the act of making documentaries.” Filmmaker Abel Ferrara perfectly sums up the crux of his new film in the opening seconds of the trailer for “Sportin’ Life.” His succinct description would only be better if he was able to somehow weave in that Willem Dafoe is featured throughout.