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Tinsel & Tine’s 5 QUESTION INTERVIEWS with FIRSTGLANCE FILM FESTIVAL FILMMAKERS 2018
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Photos from FirstGlance Film Festival 2018 Click HERE to see full size photos Click HERE for full list of Jury Winners The 21st Annual FirstGlance Film Festival in Philadelphia gets underway October 12-14, 2018. To further shine a spotlight on the talented filmmakers screening this year, I asked several of the directors and/or writers to answer the same 5 Questions, which resulted in varying and personal responses. I did the same thing for Philly’s BlackStar Film Festival. Hoping it can become a Tinsel & Tine signature. Please see filmmakers answers below: ZOMBIED Filmmaker/Actress: Juliana Forsberg-Lary Screening Date: Sat. Oct 13 7:00pm TRAILER Instagram | Instagram…
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An Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective at Lightbox Film Center
Tinsel & Tine Highlights INGMAR BERGMAN- CENTENNIAL RETROSPECTIVE 2018 marks the centennial of one of the most influential artists in film history. Lightbox Film Center will join in a global celebration (#Bergman100) September 6 through 21, with Autumn Sonata: An Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective, a three-week program exploring 10 titles from the legendary filmmaker’s extraordinary body of work. “Bergman has long been an important figure within our film program,” says Jesse Pires, Lightbox chief curator. “For many of our longtime members his films, like those of Fellini and Godard, were a gateway to European arthouse cinema. The stories are timeless and the films are meticulously crafted. It’s exciting to devote…
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PRETTY WOMAN MUSICAL vs. PRETTY WOMAN MOVIE
Tinsel & Tine’s Quick Look at PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor In March 2014, it was announced that a musical adaption of the 1990 movie which made Julia Roberts a household name, was being developed for the stage, with original screenwriter J.F. Lawton and director Garry Marshall attached to write the book. Marshall worked on the musical adaptation up until his death, July of 2016. Pretty Woman The Musical had its off Broadway premiere at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago in March 2018 and opened on Broadway August 16, 2018 – I got to see a Broadway matinee on Saturday August 18th – thanks to my…
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PUZZLE
I SO recommend this film. PUZZLE is one of those quiet films full of authenticity, great character development and fine layers. The surprising humor found in Kelly Macdonald & Irrfan Khan’s characters as they get to know one another while practicing for a doubles puzzle championship is completely winning. Will definitely be on my top 10 list for 2018. The director Marc Turtletaub was motivated to direct Puzzle for a personal reason… “It’s a story about a woman who’s a mother and a wife living in suburban Connecticut, doting on her husband and her sons. And I knew that woman – it was my mother. I grew up in suburban…
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CRAZY RICH ASIANS
Tinsel & Tine’s look at Jon M. Chu’s CRAZY RICH ASIANS By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Remember the first time you saw Pretty Woman and Vivienne (Julia Roberts) strolls back into the posh shop which had snubbed her on Rodeo drive, loaded with shopping bags, asking the sales person if she works on commission – “Big Mistake, Huge!” Well, there’s a similarly satisfying scene of judgement and retribution which opens the movie Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu, based on a bestselling 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan. Constance Wu plays Rachel Chou, a NYU Econ professor. For the last year she’s been dating Nick Young, a guy she assumes…
