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FirstGlance Film Festival Coverage 2019 – Including 5 Questions for Filmmakers
I met an awesome number of filmmakers and actors etc.. over this weekend 🤩 there's many films that deserve a spotlight but that's why I try to interview the filmmakers leading up to the festival - see below 5 Questions for #FirstGlance Filmmakers.
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THE IRISHMAN
Marking Martin Scorsese’s 60th directorial effort. Based on Charles Brandt’s book I Heard You Paint Houses, (screenplay Steven Zaillian) a non-fiction account detailing the life of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) a soldier in WWII, who returns to his Philadelphia roots to become a truck driver, but eventually is lucky or unlucky enough to meet mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) who measures Sheeran up to be mob material, despite not being Italian or connected to any families. And thus, begins the 210 minute story leading up to the 1970 disappearance of Teamsters union figure Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). Sheeran may have left the war, but the soldier mentality has…
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HARRIET
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AMC Dine-In Fashion District 8, opens for business
PhillyVoice toured the new theater Wednesday, and spoke with an AMC representative about what moviegoers can expect. “The (Fashion District) development had a lot to do with it,” Ryan Noonan, AMC’s director of corporate communications said, explaining why AMC is entering the Center City market now. “We don’t build that many new (buildings) anymore … we’ve been really focused on renovating the existing theaters in our circuit, including in the Philadelphia area… The theater has eight screens, two of which – the Prime and Dolby theaters – are “premium” experiences with larger auditoriums and screens. The Dolby theater features state-of-the-art projection and sound, as well as seats that pulsate. A…
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HARRIET Kasi Lemmons Interview Philadelphia
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Harriet Tubman, the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad as a superhero. Not in a Marvel sense of course, however an intention to show a woman of extraordinary courage & heroism is behind director Kasi Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard’s script – as we see Tubman jump off a bridge to elude captors, travel hundreds of miles alone on foot to free herself, then risking that freedom to return again and again to free others, brandishing pistols, wading through deep waters and basically exhibiting the kind of physical & mental strength usually reserved for male super or action heroes. We begin on a plantation,…
