The first time Stephanie Brinkerhoff tried psilocybin, she was a Mormon mother of three and desperate for help. She was struggling with migraines and chronic fatigue, and the antidepressants she had been on for years weren’t working, she felt. After listening to a series of podcasts about psychedelics, and learning about their reported mental health benefits, she presented her research to her Bishop, who didn’t dissuade her.
“He was just kind of like, ‘Ok, like, I trust you,’” says Brinkerhoff, who looks a lot like Sally Draper from Mad Men,...
“He was just kind of like, ‘Ok, like, I trust you,’” says Brinkerhoff, who looks a lot like Sally Draper from Mad Men,...
- 8/18/2024
- by Cassady Rosenblum
- Rollingstone.com
His Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc exposed the horrors of industrial agriculture in the US. Now, a sequel shows that the corporate behemoths have no intention of loosening their grip
In the middle of Food, Inc 2 – the follow-up documentary to 2008’s Food, Inc, narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser – scientists share what they have recently discovered about ultra-processed foods (UPFs). They are not just bad for you in a trashy, empty-calories kind of way; they interfere with the brain and the body’s ability to process food; they mess with you on a cellular level. Whole populations are seeing health deteriorate, profoundly, for no purpose beyond profit. It must be annoying, I suggest to Pollan, 69, to hear scientists deliver this as a discovery. He been warning against processed food for decades.
Pollan’s mantra – “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants” – was immortalised in his 2008 book In Defence of Food.
In the middle of Food, Inc 2 – the follow-up documentary to 2008’s Food, Inc, narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser – scientists share what they have recently discovered about ultra-processed foods (UPFs). They are not just bad for you in a trashy, empty-calories kind of way; they interfere with the brain and the body’s ability to process food; they mess with you on a cellular level. Whole populations are seeing health deteriorate, profoundly, for no purpose beyond profit. It must be annoying, I suggest to Pollan, 69, to hear scientists deliver this as a discovery. He been warning against processed food for decades.
Pollan’s mantra – “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants” – was immortalised in his 2008 book In Defence of Food.
- 6/6/2024
- by Zoe Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Food, Inc. 2 follows the golden rule of Hollywood sequels: The second time around, the villain must be scarier and the death count higher. Directors Melissa Robledo and Robert Kenner’s 2008 documentary Food, Inc. helped spark a national conversation about the devastating economic, environmental and health effects of our industrialized food system, and built momentum for serious reform. They never intended to direct a follow-up. But since then, Big Ag has fought back, and by some measures the problems caused by corporate consolidation have only gotten worse.
Journalists Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), who co-narrated the first film, became famous for exposing the deep dysfunction of America’s food industry. They’ve since followed their curiosity to other realms — psychedelics for Pollan, for example, and nuclear warfare for Schlosser. But 16 years after the release of Food Inc., they’ve reteamed with the directors for the sequel,...
Journalists Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), who co-narrated the first film, became famous for exposing the deep dysfunction of America’s food industry. They’ve since followed their curiosity to other realms — psychedelics for Pollan, for example, and nuclear warfare for Schlosser. But 16 years after the release of Food Inc., they’ve reteamed with the directors for the sequel,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Julian Sancton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Food, Inc. 2,” the follow-up to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary on the effects of agribusiness on American consumers, is set for a special screening event from Magnolia Pictures on April 9. The feature documentary will be released on digital platforms on April 12.
Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo direct the film from Participant and River Road, which reunites the directors with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at how corporate consolidation has left the food system vulnerable.
“When the pandemic hit, the curtain was pulled back. There were whole crops being buried,” Pollan says in the trailer. “At the same time, there were shortages in the supermarket.”
In a quest for solutions, the film looks at innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists and legislators including senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are working to create a sustainable future.
“I sure as hell don’t want my...
Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo direct the film from Participant and River Road, which reunites the directors with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at how corporate consolidation has left the food system vulnerable.
“When the pandemic hit, the curtain was pulled back. There were whole crops being buried,” Pollan says in the trailer. “At the same time, there were shortages in the supermarket.”
In a quest for solutions, the film looks at innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists and legislators including senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are working to create a sustainable future.
“I sure as hell don’t want my...
- 3/14/2024
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
More than a decade after the first film, Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for Food, Inc. 2, a sequel to their critically acclaimed 2008 documentary, Food, Inc.
The film “is a timely and urgent follow-up” to the original, according to a release. The first installment earned an Oscar nomination and still holds a 95 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
In the sequel, directors Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) for another look at the country’s food system.
“There’s a lot at stake when you sit down to eat,” Pollan says in the trailer. “When the pandemic hit, the curtain was peeled back.”
Schlosser adds, “There were whole crops being buried, and at the same time there were shortages in the supermarket.”
In another scene, an activist asks: “How can I go to work for these...
The film “is a timely and urgent follow-up” to the original, according to a release. The first installment earned an Oscar nomination and still holds a 95 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
In the sequel, directors Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) for another look at the country’s food system.
“There’s a lot at stake when you sit down to eat,” Pollan says in the trailer. “When the pandemic hit, the curtain was peeled back.”
Schlosser adds, “There were whole crops being buried, and at the same time there were shortages in the supermarket.”
In another scene, an activist asks: “How can I go to work for these...
- 3/14/2024
- by Zoe G Phillips
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dogwoof boards international sales.
Magnolia Pictures has picked up US rights to Participant and River Road’s Food, Inc. 2, the follow-up to Robert Kenner’s Oscar-nominated documentary.
Kenner co-directed with Melissa Robledo on the Telluride world premiere in which investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) take a fresh look at the nation’s food system.
Magnolia Pictures will release the film in the spring in the US. while Dogwoof has come on board to represent international sales.
While Food, Inc. fuelled a cultural conversation about the multinational corporations that control the food...
Magnolia Pictures has picked up US rights to Participant and River Road’s Food, Inc. 2, the follow-up to Robert Kenner’s Oscar-nominated documentary.
Kenner co-directed with Melissa Robledo on the Telluride world premiere in which investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) take a fresh look at the nation’s food system.
Magnolia Pictures will release the film in the spring in the US. while Dogwoof has come on board to represent international sales.
While Food, Inc. fuelled a cultural conversation about the multinational corporations that control the food...
- 11/9/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: After serving as the distributor for Participant and River Road’s Academy Award-nominated 2008 documentary Food, Inc., Magnolia Pictures has taken U.S. rights to the sequel, with Dogwoof coming aboard to rep international sales. An urgent continuation of the original film’s story, the doc is slated to premiere in the spring.
In the sequel, which world premiered at Telluride, directors Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at food in the U.S. The film reveals how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked by our government, leaving us with a highly efficient yet shockingly vulnerable food system dedicated only towards increasing profits. Seeking solutions, it introduces innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists, and prominent legislators such as U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are facing these...
In the sequel, which world premiered at Telluride, directors Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at food in the U.S. The film reveals how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked by our government, leaving us with a highly efficient yet shockingly vulnerable food system dedicated only towards increasing profits. Seeking solutions, it introduces innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists, and prominent legislators such as U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are facing these...
- 11/9/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2009, I wrote a book about James Cameron called The Futurist, in which I detailed the Avatar and Titanic filmmaker’s complicated relationship with technology. Cameron has spent his career on the bleeding edge of science, from the visual effects he helped pioneer to the submersibles he designed and rode to the deepest points in the world’s oceans. But much of Cameron’s storytelling has been devoted to warning against technology’s dark potential, starting with 1984’s The Terminator, in which an artificially intelligent defense network known as Skynet becomes sentient and starts a war between humans and machines.
“It’s not the machines that will destroy us, it is ourselves,” Cameron told me when I interviewed him for The Futurist. “However, we will use the machines to do it.”
I couldn’t help but think of this conversation when I learned this week, thanks to a remarkable piece...
“It’s not the machines that will destroy us, it is ourselves,” Cameron told me when I interviewed him for The Futurist. “However, we will use the machines to do it.”
I couldn’t help but think of this conversation when I learned this week, thanks to a remarkable piece...
- 9/29/2023
- by Rebecca Keegan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For 24 years, The New Yorker has leaned on the talents of actors, writers, and others from the world of Hollywood to be a part of its annual New Yorker Festival, which will be held this year Oct. 6-8.
The ongoing Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes have thrown a wrench in many plans that have traditionally relied on Hollywood talent, but the festival will go on, New Yorker editor David Remnick tells The Hollywood Reporter. And there will still be plenty of star power.
The New Yorker, of course, is not owned by a struck company, but SAG has advised its members not to promote projects from studios that have not signed interim agreements, and the Condé Nast-owned publication has had to adapt accordingly: “We faced a challenge or two,” Remnick says.
“I think a lot of the navigation is on the side of the talent, and what they...
The ongoing Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes have thrown a wrench in many plans that have traditionally relied on Hollywood talent, but the festival will go on, New Yorker editor David Remnick tells The Hollywood Reporter. And there will still be plenty of star power.
The New Yorker, of course, is not owned by a struck company, but SAG has advised its members not to promote projects from studios that have not signed interim agreements, and the Condé Nast-owned publication has had to adapt accordingly: “We faced a challenge or two,” Remnick says.
“I think a lot of the navigation is on the side of the talent, and what they...
- 9/6/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood loves sequels, but in the nonfiction space it’s rare for a documentary to get a follow up. However, 15 years after Food, Inc. landed with huge impact, the sequel Food, Inc. 2 premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, bringing a fresh perspective on America’s spoiled food system.
“All of us swore we would never go to this area again,” said Robert Kenner, director of the original Food, Inc. He co-directed Participant’s Food, Inc. 2 with Melissa Robledo, a co-producer on the first film. “But I think on some levels this became such an important story to go tell that we all felt we needed to come back and we could talk about it in sort of stronger terms than we did [before].”
The catalyst for the sequel became the pandemic, which exposed the vulnerabilities of a food system dominated by a handful of massive agribusiness companies including Cargill,...
“All of us swore we would never go to this area again,” said Robert Kenner, director of the original Food, Inc. He co-directed Participant’s Food, Inc. 2 with Melissa Robledo, a co-producer on the first film. “But I think on some levels this became such an important story to go tell that we all felt we needed to come back and we could talk about it in sort of stronger terms than we did [before].”
The catalyst for the sequel became the pandemic, which exposed the vulnerabilities of a food system dominated by a handful of massive agribusiness companies including Cargill,...
- 9/4/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s an unintentionally surreal moment in “Food Inc. 2.” Eric Schlosser, the journalist who wrote “Fast Food Nation,” is talking about how the rise of our corporatized, centralized, industrialized food system stifles the very kind of competition that could pose a challenge to it. He reaches back, with a level-headed liberal boomer nostalgia comparable to that of Michael Moore, to talk about the growth of the middle class in the ’50s and ’60s, and how that was a period of rising wages for American workers, all of which has faded away.
Here’s the surreal part. To illustrate this postwar reverie, the movie accompanies it with a 60-year-old documentary film clip presenting the wonder of supermarkets, with the camera lingering on stacks of Campbell’s Soup cans and products like Minute Rice, Ritz Crackers, and Van Camp’s Original Baked Beans. Watching the clip, though, all I could think was:...
Here’s the surreal part. To illustrate this postwar reverie, the movie accompanies it with a 60-year-old documentary film clip presenting the wonder of supermarkets, with the camera lingering on stacks of Campbell’s Soup cans and products like Minute Rice, Ritz Crackers, and Van Camp’s Original Baked Beans. Watching the clip, though, all I could think was:...
- 9/2/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Acast, the world’s largest independent podcast company, today announced that “Your Mama’s Kitchen,” a new podcast from Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Michele Norris, is now available across the entire open ecosystem of podcasts. The weekly podcast launched earlier this month exclusively on Audible will now be available to listeners wherever they get their podcasts through Acast’s partnership with Higher Ground and for advertisers to reach those listeners wherever they are consuming podcasts.
On Your Mama’s Kitchen, Norris and her guests explore the complexities of family life and how their earliest culinary experiences helped shape their personal and professional lives. Each guest brings a recipe of a favorite dish from their youth, so listeners can taste a bit of their story. With a delicious buffet of actors, authors, chefs, musicians, and more, the rich conversations that flow from that initial, simple prompt reveal the histories, memories,...
On Your Mama’s Kitchen, Norris and her guests explore the complexities of family life and how their earliest culinary experiences helped shape their personal and professional lives. Each guest brings a recipe of a favorite dish from their youth, so listeners can taste a bit of their story. With a delicious buffet of actors, authors, chefs, musicians, and more, the rich conversations that flow from that initial, simple prompt reveal the histories, memories,...
- 8/30/2023
- Podnews.net
Exclusive: Lucy Walker, the British filmmaker behind Oscar-nominated docs Waste Land and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, has lined up her latest feature doc.
Walker is directing Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine and the film has landed a secret slot at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine tells the astounding unknown story of what might be the aha scientific breakthrough moment of our generation.
Back in 1962 a teenage psychonaut in New York City named Howard Lotsof experimented with an obscure psychedelic from the root bark of a West African shrub and recognized its unique therapeutic potential. Together with his African-American wife Norma, a pair of outsider NYU film students, they dedicated their lives to getting science and government to research it, convinced that it would be of great medicinal benefit, despite it sounding too good to be true,...
Walker is directing Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine and the film has landed a secret slot at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine tells the astounding unknown story of what might be the aha scientific breakthrough moment of our generation.
Back in 1962 a teenage psychonaut in New York City named Howard Lotsof experimented with an obscure psychedelic from the root bark of a West African shrub and recognized its unique therapeutic potential. Together with his African-American wife Norma, a pair of outsider NYU film students, they dedicated their lives to getting science and government to research it, convinced that it would be of great medicinal benefit, despite it sounding too good to be true,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Participant has announced that it is producing Food, Inc. 2 — a sequel to its Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc., to be released later this year.
The original film directed by Robert Kenner offered an unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry — spotlighting the harm this system has inflicted on animals, as well as its consumers and laborers. Robert Kenner directed from a script written with Elise Pearlstein and Kim Roberts. Kenner also produced alongside Pearlstein, with Bill Pohlad, Robin Schorr, Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann serving as exec producers.
Food, Inc. was released by Magnolia Pictures in 2009 after world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, going on to claim not only an Academy Award nom for Best Documentary, Features, but a Cinema Eye Honors Award, a Gotham Award, a News & Documentary Emmy Award and numerous other accolades, as well.
Specifics as to Food, Inc. 2‘s focus are under wraps,...
The original film directed by Robert Kenner offered an unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry — spotlighting the harm this system has inflicted on animals, as well as its consumers and laborers. Robert Kenner directed from a script written with Elise Pearlstein and Kim Roberts. Kenner also produced alongside Pearlstein, with Bill Pohlad, Robin Schorr, Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann serving as exec producers.
Food, Inc. was released by Magnolia Pictures in 2009 after world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, going on to claim not only an Academy Award nom for Best Documentary, Features, but a Cinema Eye Honors Award, a Gotham Award, a News & Documentary Emmy Award and numerous other accolades, as well.
Specifics as to Food, Inc. 2‘s focus are under wraps,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
There was a time when psychedelics such as LSD, mushrooms, and mescaline were primarily relegated to those who were wild and weird enough to brave the legal and social throes imposed by the War on Drugs. But those days are ending — if they haven’t already slipped into the past. Today these substances are increasingly embraced for their therapeutic, spiritual, and recreational value, and journalist Michael Pollan has emerged as arguably the most prominent champion of their kaleidoscopic rewards.
“It’s for spiritual experience,” he explained to Rolling Stone. “It’s for self-exploration.
“It’s for spiritual experience,” he explained to Rolling Stone. “It’s for self-exploration.
- 7/3/2022
- by Nick Hilden
- Rollingstone.com
"Just think how much human suffering could be relieved." Netflix has unveiled a trailer for the fascinating doc series titled How to Change Your Mind - which has a double meaning. First, this series explores the power of psychedelics and hallucinogenic substances to help with depression and Ptsd. Second, this series might change your mind or the mind of others when it comes to being afraid of these "drugs" and the stigma that comes with them. They can help. And they should be legal! Acclaimed doc filmmaker Alex Gibney and best-selling author Michael Pollan present this documentary series event in four parts, each focused on one mind-altering substance: LSD (aka acid), psilocybin (aka magic mushrooms), Mdma (aka ecstasy), and mescaline (aka peyote). With Pollan as our guide, we journey to the frontiers of the new psychedelic renaissance – and look back at almost-forgotten historical context – to explore the great potential of...
- 6/16/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Alex Gibney is adapting Michael Pollan’s mind-altering substance book How To Change Your Mind for Netflix.
Gibney is exec producing the four-part docuseries, which is based on The New York Times best-selling author’s book, which looks at what the science of psychedelics teaches people about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression and transcendence.
How To Change Your Mind is presented in four parts, each focused on a different mind-altering substance: LSD, psilocybin, Mdma, and mescaline.
With Pollan as guide, viewers will journey to the frontiers of the new psychedelic renaissance – and look back at almost-forgotten historical context – to explore the potential of these substances to heal and change minds as well as culture.
The docuseries launches on July 12.
The series is directed by Emmy-nominated Alison Ellwood, who has directed films such as Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, History of the Eagles, and Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search...
Gibney is exec producing the four-part docuseries, which is based on The New York Times best-selling author’s book, which looks at what the science of psychedelics teaches people about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression and transcendence.
How To Change Your Mind is presented in four parts, each focused on a different mind-altering substance: LSD, psilocybin, Mdma, and mescaline.
With Pollan as guide, viewers will journey to the frontiers of the new psychedelic renaissance – and look back at almost-forgotten historical context – to explore the potential of these substances to heal and change minds as well as culture.
The docuseries launches on July 12.
The series is directed by Emmy-nominated Alison Ellwood, who has directed films such as Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, History of the Eagles, and Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search...
- 6/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Documentary filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, who released the Brie Larson-narrated documentary Fantastic Fungi in 2019, has announced a virtual event dedicated to the complexity and multitude of medical uses within the fungi kingdom.
Dubbed the Fantastic Fungi Global Summit, the event will be hosted from October 15th through 17th and will feature speakers like alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra, renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, celebrity chef Rick Bayless, and author Michael Pollan.
“We’re in the midst of a full cultural ‘shroom boom’ and the Fantastic Fungi Summit is at the forefront of the movement,...
Dubbed the Fantastic Fungi Global Summit, the event will be hosted from October 15th through 17th and will feature speakers like alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra, renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, celebrity chef Rick Bayless, and author Michael Pollan.
“We’re in the midst of a full cultural ‘shroom boom’ and the Fantastic Fungi Summit is at the forefront of the movement,...
- 8/2/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
He's her husband of seven years, he's the father of her children... and he's her babysitter while she does drugs. It seems like Kristen Bell spent her last birthday in the good place, thanks to her husband Dax Shepard. The Frozen star revealed that she experimented with psychedelic mushrooms last year to try to help with her depression and anxiety, and she shared her experience on Sean Hayes' podcast HypochondriActor on May 12. She said that she read Michael Pollan's book How to Change Your Mind, explaining, "He really goes into detail about this underground academic community that has continued to study the effects of LSD and...
- 5/19/2021
- E! Online
Topic, First Look Media’s new streaming service, has acquired the North American streaming rights to “Meats,” Ashley Williams’ short film that made its world premiere in the shorts program at the Sundance Film Festival, Topic announced Wednesday.
Topic also acquired a first look opportunity for any projects based on or related to “Meats.”
“How I Met Your Mother Actress” Williams starred in and directed “Meats,” which looks at how a pregnant vegan struggles with her newfound craving to eat meat. The story was inspired by the ideas of the ethics of eating food as posed by writers like Michael Pollan, Camas Davis and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Williams stars in “Meats” alongside a real-life master butcher named Giancarlo Sbarbaro. She also produced with Neal Dodson.
Also Read: Sundance 2020: Streamers Spent Big and Documentaries Are All the Rage
“There were many incredible shorts that premiered at Sundance this year, and...
Topic also acquired a first look opportunity for any projects based on or related to “Meats.”
“How I Met Your Mother Actress” Williams starred in and directed “Meats,” which looks at how a pregnant vegan struggles with her newfound craving to eat meat. The story was inspired by the ideas of the ethics of eating food as posed by writers like Michael Pollan, Camas Davis and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Williams stars in “Meats” alongside a real-life master butcher named Giancarlo Sbarbaro. She also produced with Neal Dodson.
Also Read: Sundance 2020: Streamers Spent Big and Documentaries Are All the Rage
“There were many incredible shorts that premiered at Sundance this year, and...
- 2/5/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
"Under every footstep you take... and that's all over the world." Moving Art has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary called Fantastic Fungi, which is indeed a movie about fungi - mushrooms and other fascinating underground networkers in the fungi kingdom. This doc film is described as "a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet." Featuring scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil, and others, the film shows us "the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom" may provide humanity - the potential to save our planet. Which does indeed sound fascinating. It's "directed by the pioneer of time-lapse photography", Louie Schwartzberg, and it has plenty of stunning growth time-lapse shots. With narration by Brie Larson. Here's the official trailer...
- 8/15/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
At the big Time 100 gala, “Salt Fat Acid Heat” host and chef Samin Nosrat wasn’t wowed by the celebrities, but instead by the other Most Influential People honorees that aren’t household names.
“There were these two amazing female lawyers from India who were the ones who had overturned the anti-gay legislation there,” Nosrat said in an interview with IndieWire. “And there were these women from Ireland who had really spearheaded the abortion referendum. Those people were by far, by and large, the most inspirational, the most amazing for me to get to interact with.”
It’s this genuine enthusiasm and curiosity about other people that serves Nosrat so well in Netflix’s series “Salt Fat Acid Heat,” which puts a spin on the usual food show. Mixing travel and instruction, the four-part series is unlike any cooking show on TV. This is in large part due to Nosrat’s warmth and spirit,...
“There were these two amazing female lawyers from India who were the ones who had overturned the anti-gay legislation there,” Nosrat said in an interview with IndieWire. “And there were these women from Ireland who had really spearheaded the abortion referendum. Those people were by far, by and large, the most inspirational, the most amazing for me to get to interact with.”
It’s this genuine enthusiasm and curiosity about other people that serves Nosrat so well in Netflix’s series “Salt Fat Acid Heat,” which puts a spin on the usual food show. Mixing travel and instruction, the four-part series is unlike any cooking show on TV. This is in large part due to Nosrat’s warmth and spirit,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
In 2007, when Dieter Kosslick launched the Berlinale’s inventive Culinary Cinema section, it had been simmering in the back of his mind for decades.
A foodie since way before it became fashionable, Kosslick, who is a former film critic and journalist, in the early 1980s had a monthly column in German magazine Konkret in which he wrote about “the organic world” and “the terrible treatment of animals,” he recalls.
Kosslick is being honored at the Berlin festival with Variety‘s Achievement in International Film Award.
Kosslick says the two most formative experiences in his “food life” are being taken to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse by his then-girlfriend, Ifp founder Sandra Schulberg, who introduced him to eminent chef and activist Alice Waters, and going to restaurants with late great German food critic Wolfram Siebeck, whom met while at college in Munich.
Culinary Cinema, which tapped into the Slow Food movement zeitgeist,...
A foodie since way before it became fashionable, Kosslick, who is a former film critic and journalist, in the early 1980s had a monthly column in German magazine Konkret in which he wrote about “the organic world” and “the terrible treatment of animals,” he recalls.
Kosslick is being honored at the Berlin festival with Variety‘s Achievement in International Film Award.
Kosslick says the two most formative experiences in his “food life” are being taken to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse by his then-girlfriend, Ifp founder Sandra Schulberg, who introduced him to eminent chef and activist Alice Waters, and going to restaurants with late great German food critic Wolfram Siebeck, whom met while at college in Munich.
Culinary Cinema, which tapped into the Slow Food movement zeitgeist,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
This week on Shark Tank, viewers will get to meet a mother-daughter duo from Washington, D.C. that run a business called Soupergirl. These two are passionate about healthy vegan soups and providing nutrition for the nation. The company is founded by Soupergirl Sara Polon, a former stand up comedian turned soup-maker. The company’s website explains that Sara was inspired by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. She decided to get involved in the food movement, turning her passion for food into a soup company. She’s joined by her mom, Soupermom, Marilyn Polon. She has experience in the kitchen, cooking fresh and delicious foods. “Our food […]
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- 10/21/2018
- by Mary Jane
- Monsters and Critics
Samin Nosrat grew up in San Diego in an Iranian family before cooking at Berkeley’s famed Chez Panisse, the birthplace of the local food movement. All of those elements, combined with her natural ability for teaching cooking, influenced her award-winning book “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking,” which has become a four-part Netflix series that premieres Thursday.
It’s Nosrat’s first show, although she previously appeared on “Cooked,” from food activist Michael Pollan, and both series were directed by Caroline Suh for Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.
“Salt Fat Acid Heat” is neither an instructional cooking show or a travel show, but a sort of organic ratatouille of the two. Nosrat travels to Italy, where she studied cooking, to talk about the importance of fat in making food delicious. To illustrate the crucial role salt plays in balancing a dish, she observes miso making and kelp harvesting in Japan.
It’s Nosrat’s first show, although she previously appeared on “Cooked,” from food activist Michael Pollan, and both series were directed by Caroline Suh for Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.
“Salt Fat Acid Heat” is neither an instructional cooking show or a travel show, but a sort of organic ratatouille of the two. Nosrat travels to Italy, where she studied cooking, to talk about the importance of fat in making food delicious. To illustrate the crucial role salt plays in balancing a dish, she observes miso making and kelp harvesting in Japan.
- 10/11/2018
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Garbage’s Shirley Manson and Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry will unite at the South by Southwest 2019 conference to deliver a joint keynote speech, a conversation with Prs Foundation’s Keychange program. Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom and writer-director Marti Noxon (Sharp Objects) will also speak at the event, set for March 8th through 17th in Austin, Texas.
The featured speakers for SXSW 2019 include Jason Blum in conversation with John Pierson; 2017 Time Person of the Year Susan Fowler; musician Amanda Palmer; author Michael Pollan; and media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff,...
The featured speakers for SXSW 2019 include Jason Blum in conversation with John Pierson; 2017 Time Person of the Year Susan Fowler; musician Amanda Palmer; author Michael Pollan; and media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
The initial slate of Keynotes and Featured Speakers for 2019’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festival have been announced and they include Academy Award-nominated Jason Blum, Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson as well as Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom. The fest kicks off March 8 and continues through March 17, 2019.
Known for its diverse, collaborative and inventive community, SXSW presents ideas that encourage and empower its audience of creative professionals to achieve their goals. Other speakers announced include 2017 Time Person of the Year Susan Fowler; world-renowned architect Bjarke Ingels; artist and musician Amanda Palmer; co-founder of Upworthy and Fellow at the New America Foundation Eli Pariser; New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan; media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff; Benevolent AI CEO Joanna Shields; futurist and author Amy Webb; and more.
SXSW Conference programming is organized into 25 tracks divided between Interactive, Film, Music, and Convergence, presented in a variety of session formats.
Known for its diverse, collaborative and inventive community, SXSW presents ideas that encourage and empower its audience of creative professionals to achieve their goals. Other speakers announced include 2017 Time Person of the Year Susan Fowler; world-renowned architect Bjarke Ingels; artist and musician Amanda Palmer; co-founder of Upworthy and Fellow at the New America Foundation Eli Pariser; New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan; media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff; Benevolent AI CEO Joanna Shields; futurist and author Amy Webb; and more.
SXSW Conference programming is organized into 25 tracks divided between Interactive, Film, Music, and Convergence, presented in a variety of session formats.
- 9/10/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Jason Blum, Marti Noxon, Kevin Systrom and Shirley Manson have been selected as speakers at next year’s South by Southwest Conference.
The quartet were among the high-profile name announced Monday in the first wave of keynote and featured speakers for the 2019 conference, running concurrently with the SXSW Film Festival on March 8-17 in Austin, Texas.
Keynotes announced include Instagram CEO Systrom, interviewed by TechCrunch editor-at-large Josh Constine, and a keynote conversation between Shirley Manson, lead vocalist of the rock band Garbage, singer-songwriter Lauren Mayberry of the Scottish electronic pop band Chvrches, and writer, producer, and director Marti Noxon.
Among the featured speakers revealed are Jason Blum in conversation with John Pierson; writer and 2017 Time Person of the Year Susan Fowler; architect Bjarke Ingels; artist and musician Amanda Palmer; co-founder of Upworthy and Fellow at the New America Foundation Eli Pariser; New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan; media theorist...
The quartet were among the high-profile name announced Monday in the first wave of keynote and featured speakers for the 2019 conference, running concurrently with the SXSW Film Festival on March 8-17 in Austin, Texas.
Keynotes announced include Instagram CEO Systrom, interviewed by TechCrunch editor-at-large Josh Constine, and a keynote conversation between Shirley Manson, lead vocalist of the rock band Garbage, singer-songwriter Lauren Mayberry of the Scottish electronic pop band Chvrches, and writer, producer, and director Marti Noxon.
Among the featured speakers revealed are Jason Blum in conversation with John Pierson; writer and 2017 Time Person of the Year Susan Fowler; architect Bjarke Ingels; artist and musician Amanda Palmer; co-founder of Upworthy and Fellow at the New America Foundation Eli Pariser; New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan; media theorist...
- 9/10/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
With all due respect to former Vice President Al Gore, here is an inconvenient truth about most environmental documentaries: No matter how important the message, it’s kind of a drag to sit through so many alarmist lectures about how the world is going to end and what humans are doing to speed along its destruction. That’s what makes “The Biggest Little Farm” feel like fresh air for the soul — figuratively, of course, although audiences will almost surely breathe a little easier after tuning in to this inspirational story of one couple who made an impact by entirely rethinking their ecological footprint.
The inspirational story of how a Los Angeles couple quit the city, moved an hour north of one of the most polluted metropolitan centers on Earth, and pursued their dream of growing every ingredient she could possibly want to cook with, this lead-by-example change-the-world doc is perhaps...
The inspirational story of how a Los Angeles couple quit the city, moved an hour north of one of the most polluted metropolitan centers on Earth, and pursued their dream of growing every ingredient she could possibly want to cook with, this lead-by-example change-the-world doc is perhaps...
- 9/1/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
This week’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO will likely cover the ongoing refugee and immigration crisis at the southern USA and Mexico border. The finger pointing and lack of action from Potus who blames the Democratic party and Congress will most definitely be a focal subject. Up first with Maher is NRA (National Rifle Association) television host Colion Noir booked as the top-of-show interview guest. Collins Idehen Jr. goes by the name Colion Noir on the air, and he has issues with media revealing the names of shooters. In a video interview, he said: “These kids aren’t being […]
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- 6/22/2018
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
A friend of mine who’s a devoted carnivore told me that he had no interest in seeing the food documentary “Eating Animals,” because “when I hear that title, it makes my mouth water.” He is, in other words, not the target viewer for a lesson in vegetarian fortitude. Actually, though, he’s got the movie all wrong. If the phrase “eating animals” makes your mouth water, then you are, in fact, the ideal audience for this documentary investigation into where our meat comes from. The movie, loosely adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2009 memoir and narrated by Natalie Portman (who is one of its producers), isn’t a sanctimonious veggie harangue. Directed by Christopher Quinn, it is, at certain moments, almost a love letter to the time-honored splendor of the carnivorous impulse.
Enlightened eaters know that there’s a school of thought — a powerful and convincing one — that says...
Enlightened eaters know that there’s a school of thought — a powerful and convincing one — that says...
- 6/15/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The Academy will announce its list of Oscar-eligible documentaries this week, a field that counted just 82 entries in 2005; last year, there were 124. And along with this growth comes a new attribute for the much-admired/often ignored genre: Power.
Under Sheila Nevins, HBO led the way in showing how documentaries could draw audiences with nonfiction programming that’s skillful, dynamic, and relevant. Under Lisa Nishimura, Netflix upped the ante with deep-pocketed algorithms that not only proved audiences craved this content (after all, documentaries are the original reality TV), but also guided exactly where those viewers could be found, and what they wanted to see. And while social justice has always been the bailiwick of documentary filmmakers, Diane Weyermann at Participant has given that niche the financing and clout it deserves.
While their business models differ, they’re all producing documentaries that might not otherwise exist, making them better and getting them seen.
Under Sheila Nevins, HBO led the way in showing how documentaries could draw audiences with nonfiction programming that’s skillful, dynamic, and relevant. Under Lisa Nishimura, Netflix upped the ante with deep-pocketed algorithms that not only proved audiences craved this content (after all, documentaries are the original reality TV), but also guided exactly where those viewers could be found, and what they wanted to see. And while social justice has always been the bailiwick of documentary filmmakers, Diane Weyermann at Participant has given that niche the financing and clout it deserves.
While their business models differ, they’re all producing documentaries that might not otherwise exist, making them better and getting them seen.
- 10/24/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Academy will announce its list of Oscar-eligible documentaries this week, a field that counted just 82 entries in 2005; last year, there were 124. And along with this growth comes a new attribute for the much-admired/often ignored genre: Power.
Under Sheila Nevins, HBO led the way in showing how documentaries could draw audiences with nonfiction programming that’s skillful, dynamic, and relevant. Under Lisa Nishimura, Netflix upped the ante with deep-pocketed algorithms that not only proved audiences craved this content (after all, documentaries are the original reality TV), but also guided exactly where those viewers could be found, and what they wanted to see. And while social justice has always been the balliwick of documentary filmmakers, Diane Weyermann at Participant has given that niche the financing and clout it deserves.
While their business models differ, they’re all producing documentaries that might not otherwise exist, making them better and getting them seen.
Under Sheila Nevins, HBO led the way in showing how documentaries could draw audiences with nonfiction programming that’s skillful, dynamic, and relevant. Under Lisa Nishimura, Netflix upped the ante with deep-pocketed algorithms that not only proved audiences craved this content (after all, documentaries are the original reality TV), but also guided exactly where those viewers could be found, and what they wanted to see. And while social justice has always been the balliwick of documentary filmmakers, Diane Weyermann at Participant has given that niche the financing and clout it deserves.
While their business models differ, they’re all producing documentaries that might not otherwise exist, making them better and getting them seen.
- 10/24/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Climate change is a topic many documentaries have covered and it is easy to feel hopeless or frustrated about it. Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson, whose previous documentaries include Inside Job and No End In Sight, takes a different approach with Time To Choose, tying the problem to other global issues, ranging from jobs, poverty, war, pollution, and mass extinction, and pointing to solutions to all through individual choice and market forces.
Beautifully photographed, with polished production values and narrated by actor Oscar Isaac, Time To Choose is a different kind of climate change documentary. It does the near-impossible, crisply summarizing the problem and rationally presenting practical solutions that focus on the power of individual choice to move corporations, and wrapping all that up in a visually lush film that is as compelling to watch as any winning nature documentary.
This handsome, compelling documentary features intelligent, persuasive arguments for action, beautiful...
Beautifully photographed, with polished production values and narrated by actor Oscar Isaac, Time To Choose is a different kind of climate change documentary. It does the near-impossible, crisply summarizing the problem and rationally presenting practical solutions that focus on the power of individual choice to move corporations, and wrapping all that up in a visually lush film that is as compelling to watch as any winning nature documentary.
This handsome, compelling documentary features intelligent, persuasive arguments for action, beautiful...
- 6/10/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In Netflix's "Cooked," from the ever-prolific Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, bestselling author Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma," "In Defense of Food") travels the globe in search of the nourishing, soulful cuisine that's been lost in the age of mass-produced food. From Western Australia to Pollan's Berkeley, Calif. kitchen, the four-part docuseries — arranged around the themes of fire, water, air, and earth — covers as much ground as the streaming service's terrific "Chef's Table," which recounts the careers of six world-renowned chefs. But "Cooked" is more interested in homemade food than haute cuisine, focusing on techniques and practices that utilize local, fresh, unprocessed ingredients. "When you let a corporation cook your food," Pollan warns, "they cook differently than people do." With roasted lizards and cheesemaking nuns, Pollan drives home the surprising pleasures that coexist with his...
- 2/4/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Godfather of eat-what-your-great-grandmother-ate thinking Michael Pollan joins Going Clear documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney for a new Netflix docuseries called Cooked. Similar to his book and subsequent PBS movie The Botany of Desire, which looked at food and food history through the lens of four plants, Cooked will be split into four sections along the elements fire, water, air, and earth. If the good Planeteer inside of you is screaming, Where's the heart? Pollan has that running throughout: "Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something delicious for the people you love?" Cooked will be available for streaming on Netflix February 19.
- 2/4/2016
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
What’s new on Netflix February 2016 is Judd Apatow’s new comedy series Love; a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel film; the long-awaited debut of Fuller House; a new Hannibal Buress special and more! Here’s what is new on Netflix February 2016, and what is leaving the streaming service. New On Netflix February 2016 Netflix Originals Hannibal Buress: Comedy Camisado — Available Feb. 5 Cooked — Available Feb. 19. Author Michael Pollan and filmmaker Alex Gibney, and an all-star cast of directors and cinematographers, bring us this documentary miniseries that examines the primal human need to cook. Love Season 1 — Available Feb. 19. Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley … Continue reading →
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- 1/29/2016
- by Jeff Pfeiffer
- ChannelGuideMag
From best-selling author Michael Pollan (*The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore’s Dilemma*, *In Defense of Food), *Oscar-winning filmmake*r *Alex Gibney *(**Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine*, *Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief**, **Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room*), and an all-star cast of directors and cinematographers comes the Netflix Original Documentary Series *Cooked*, which examines the primal human need to cook and issues a clarion call for a return to the kitchen in order to reclaim lost traditions and restore balance to our lives. Each of the series’ four episodes examines one of the physical elements used throughout the ages to transform raw ingredients into delicious dishes: fire, water, air, and earth. *Cooked* takes viewers on a visually stunning journey to meet, among others: an Aboriginal tribe in Western Australia that fire-roasts Australian monitor lizards, a Connecticut Benedictine nun and microbiologist who makes.
- 1/26/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Netflix has another original series on the way sure to make subscribers’ mouths water. The streaming video provider will release the four-part documentary series Cooked on February 19, 2016,
Cooked takes a look at how the four physical elements used in the history of cooking -- earth, fire, water, and air -- have helped humans fulfill their base desire to cook. For example, the food-centric series will show how Aboriginal natives in Western Australia fire-roast monitor lizards, as well as a Benedictine nun and microbiologist from Connecticut who makes traditional French cheese. Cooked’s main message is to encourage viewers to take control of their own health by rediscovering the joys of cooking at home.
The upcoming Netflix docu-series hails from The Botany of Desire and In Defense of Food author Michael Pollan and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief filmmaker Alex Gibney (both pictured above). Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions produced Cooked alongside Netflix.
Cooked takes a look at how the four physical elements used in the history of cooking -- earth, fire, water, and air -- have helped humans fulfill their base desire to cook. For example, the food-centric series will show how Aboriginal natives in Western Australia fire-roast monitor lizards, as well as a Benedictine nun and microbiologist from Connecticut who makes traditional French cheese. Cooked’s main message is to encourage viewers to take control of their own health by rediscovering the joys of cooking at home.
The upcoming Netflix docu-series hails from The Botany of Desire and In Defense of Food author Michael Pollan and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief filmmaker Alex Gibney (both pictured above). Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions produced Cooked alongside Netflix.
- 1/15/2016
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
At The Kering Foundation’s conference ‘Women in Motion’ in Cannes this year, Frances McDormand sat down on the stage to speak with The Hollywood Reporter’s deputy editorial director Alison Brower.
She began by changing her flat shoes to heels which matched the print of her dress. I wish I had been able to film her giving her version of a ‘Woman in Motion’. “Just like Ginger Rogers knew with Fred Astaire, you have to do it backwards and in heels,” she joked about the famous adage that women have to work harder and smarter to be seen as achieving the same level of success as men.
You can see her and hear the full 40 minute version of the talk: https://vimeo.com/129555924
She dissed “waiting for someone to give you a role. A woman in motion does not wait for a role.” She herself has created a new HBO series “ Olive Kitteridge” and is working on another based upon Michael Pollan’s best selling book The Omnivore’s Adventure. Focusing on the politics of food, she will zero in on the story in the second half of the book about a seasoned and a new hunter.
“A man goes on a hunt with another man, butchers that animal with his own hands and then eats that animal, knowing full well what he’s done. And for me that is the most cinematically interesting part. I’m going to be one of those people. I’m going to be the guide of the other person taking him on that journey,” she said, finishing: “I’m going to be the man.”
Frances acknowledged that women are most often shown in relationship to the male protagonists: as the mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives, etc. of the male protagonist. She has made a specialty of this sort of supporting role very consciously and she knows she is good in these sorts of supporting roles.
See Frances explain the difference between movie stars and actors, female action heroes in franchises and equal pay, backend and upfront deals.
Frances always wanted an actor’s life: to have that, you need a script, you need to meet someone who will give you a role. You get a script and you can act. When she was not getting roles, she optioned Every Secret Thing, a novel with many unredeemable women protagonists. It was not a great production, but it was a great effort. It was released a week ago. She finds women do better in longer scenes.
She read the novel just after seeing “The Wire” which transformed how she (and the world) perceived TV. Admittedly, she said, she does not watch TV. This comes not as a snobbish admission but from her inability to use the remote controls to turn the TV on and choose channels.
However she does see an answer to women’s productions in cable television.
Watch her explain that and that “money is what females in film need”.
Weighing in on the so-called “flatgate” issue roiling Cannes all week, she said, “I’m much more of a sneaker person, but I think they think that flats are the road to ruin.” For 30 years she has been coming to Cannes and wearing high heels on the red carpet. “But we all know that Roger Vivier makes a beautiful flat that is more more elegant than some of ... these shoes women are wearing now.” She also remarked that most women can’t walk in high platform stiletto shoes. “I say flats.”
In a similar vein, McDormand felt that the red carpet ceremony has changed, with “a lot of people stepping on trains [of dresses] as they try to find the best angle for the shot”. She also believes it's got tackier and tackier, with more nakedness, “more see-through”, and that it's less about “what suits you”. She admitted she buys her own garments, “because I can't fit into the free clothes”.
McDormand talked of the intersection of fashion, branding and money: “We're all in bed together but none of it's quite working”. She went on to say that she loves fashion, pointing to her matching shoes and skirt and pronouncing: “Come on: this is not a mistake!”
On the subject of feminism, she noted that the word “got branded a little bit askew.” And “having it all” also was taken out of context. Women never wanted to have it all. They wanted to be able to experience whatever they chose, but they never did want all of it. Feminism, then as now, was primarily about equal pay for equal work, commensurate with what males were paid.
“I haven’t been given that,” she said. In answer to her question about what female actor got paid equally to men, an audience member named Meryl Streep as an actress that can command a male-sized salary. McDormand responded: “I doubt that she has ever been paid commensurately with the male movie stars she’s worked with." She also noted that as an actor, she has received her going quote only once, on “Transformers 3”, and even that was only for a short time and less than a male actor of similar status’ rate.
“I worked very hard for that money, I’m very proud of my work. I’m glad I did that film and I’m proud that I finally got paid what I was told I was worth by the industry," she said. "But that is nothing. That is a tenth of what most males my age, with my experience and my reputation as a film actor make. We’ve never been paid commensurately and that has to change.”
“We’re keeping the conversation back a little bit by saying we need help. We don’t need help, we need money. We need platforms, we need voices, but we don’t need help,” she said.
“We don't need more initiatives; we need money”. “We're keeping the world back; we don't need help; we need money”, she repeated.
McDormand quoted some statistics that prove films about women can be popular and profitable. “Pitch Perfect 2”, directed by a woman and starring mostly women, cost $29 million to make and grossed $70.3 million the first weekend. “Mad Max Fury Road” cost a lot more, $150m, and grossed a lot less, $44.4m, on its opening.
You can watch all the speakers live on The Kering Group videos here: https://vimeo.com/keringgroup/videos...
She began by changing her flat shoes to heels which matched the print of her dress. I wish I had been able to film her giving her version of a ‘Woman in Motion’. “Just like Ginger Rogers knew with Fred Astaire, you have to do it backwards and in heels,” she joked about the famous adage that women have to work harder and smarter to be seen as achieving the same level of success as men.
You can see her and hear the full 40 minute version of the talk: https://vimeo.com/129555924
She dissed “waiting for someone to give you a role. A woman in motion does not wait for a role.” She herself has created a new HBO series “ Olive Kitteridge” and is working on another based upon Michael Pollan’s best selling book The Omnivore’s Adventure. Focusing on the politics of food, she will zero in on the story in the second half of the book about a seasoned and a new hunter.
“A man goes on a hunt with another man, butchers that animal with his own hands and then eats that animal, knowing full well what he’s done. And for me that is the most cinematically interesting part. I’m going to be one of those people. I’m going to be the guide of the other person taking him on that journey,” she said, finishing: “I’m going to be the man.”
Frances acknowledged that women are most often shown in relationship to the male protagonists: as the mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives, etc. of the male protagonist. She has made a specialty of this sort of supporting role very consciously and she knows she is good in these sorts of supporting roles.
See Frances explain the difference between movie stars and actors, female action heroes in franchises and equal pay, backend and upfront deals.
Frances always wanted an actor’s life: to have that, you need a script, you need to meet someone who will give you a role. You get a script and you can act. When she was not getting roles, she optioned Every Secret Thing, a novel with many unredeemable women protagonists. It was not a great production, but it was a great effort. It was released a week ago. She finds women do better in longer scenes.
She read the novel just after seeing “The Wire” which transformed how she (and the world) perceived TV. Admittedly, she said, she does not watch TV. This comes not as a snobbish admission but from her inability to use the remote controls to turn the TV on and choose channels.
However she does see an answer to women’s productions in cable television.
Watch her explain that and that “money is what females in film need”.
Weighing in on the so-called “flatgate” issue roiling Cannes all week, she said, “I’m much more of a sneaker person, but I think they think that flats are the road to ruin.” For 30 years she has been coming to Cannes and wearing high heels on the red carpet. “But we all know that Roger Vivier makes a beautiful flat that is more more elegant than some of ... these shoes women are wearing now.” She also remarked that most women can’t walk in high platform stiletto shoes. “I say flats.”
In a similar vein, McDormand felt that the red carpet ceremony has changed, with “a lot of people stepping on trains [of dresses] as they try to find the best angle for the shot”. She also believes it's got tackier and tackier, with more nakedness, “more see-through”, and that it's less about “what suits you”. She admitted she buys her own garments, “because I can't fit into the free clothes”.
McDormand talked of the intersection of fashion, branding and money: “We're all in bed together but none of it's quite working”. She went on to say that she loves fashion, pointing to her matching shoes and skirt and pronouncing: “Come on: this is not a mistake!”
On the subject of feminism, she noted that the word “got branded a little bit askew.” And “having it all” also was taken out of context. Women never wanted to have it all. They wanted to be able to experience whatever they chose, but they never did want all of it. Feminism, then as now, was primarily about equal pay for equal work, commensurate with what males were paid.
“I haven’t been given that,” she said. In answer to her question about what female actor got paid equally to men, an audience member named Meryl Streep as an actress that can command a male-sized salary. McDormand responded: “I doubt that she has ever been paid commensurately with the male movie stars she’s worked with." She also noted that as an actor, she has received her going quote only once, on “Transformers 3”, and even that was only for a short time and less than a male actor of similar status’ rate.
“I worked very hard for that money, I’m very proud of my work. I’m glad I did that film and I’m proud that I finally got paid what I was told I was worth by the industry," she said. "But that is nothing. That is a tenth of what most males my age, with my experience and my reputation as a film actor make. We’ve never been paid commensurately and that has to change.”
“We’re keeping the conversation back a little bit by saying we need help. We don’t need help, we need money. We need platforms, we need voices, but we don’t need help,” she said.
“We don't need more initiatives; we need money”. “We're keeping the world back; we don't need help; we need money”, she repeated.
McDormand quoted some statistics that prove films about women can be popular and profitable. “Pitch Perfect 2”, directed by a woman and starring mostly women, cost $29 million to make and grossed $70.3 million the first weekend. “Mad Max Fury Road” cost a lot more, $150m, and grossed a lot less, $44.4m, on its opening.
You can watch all the speakers live on The Kering Group videos here: https://vimeo.com/keringgroup/videos...
- 6/18/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
It’s no secret that in the last couple decades the number of overweight children in the United States has grown at an alarming rate. The statistics are shocking. Not long ago, one in twenty kids may have had an issue with weight, but now, one in every five faces obesity and the long list of unpleasant consequences that come with it. With the rise of personal fitness and calorie cutting processed foods, how could this be? As the question ominously looms over the American public at large, famed television journalist Katie Couric and seasoned issue-doc director Stephanie Soechtig have teamed up, put together an all-star cast and crew of medical and political experts who aim to expose the ugly truths within the answer. Bolstered by the presence of producer Laurie David on board, Fed Up aims to be the food industry equivalent to what An Inconvenient Truth was to the environmental movement.
- 9/9/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
David vs. Goliath: Soechtig Takes on the Food Industry with Child Obesity Exposé that Begs to Differ on the Pizza as Vegetable Issue
It’s no secret that in the last couple decades the number of overweight children in the United States has grown at an alarming rate. The statistics are shocking. Not long ago, one in twenty kids may have had an issue with weight, but now, one in every five faces obesity and the long list of unpleasant consequences that come with it. With the rise of personal fitness and calorie cutting processed foods, how could this be? As the question ominously looms over the American public at large, famed television journalist Katie Couric and seasoned issue-doc director Stephanie Soechtig have teamed up, put together an all-star cast and crew of medical and political experts who aim to expose the ugly truths within the answer. Bolstered by the...
It’s no secret that in the last couple decades the number of overweight children in the United States has grown at an alarming rate. The statistics are shocking. Not long ago, one in twenty kids may have had an issue with weight, but now, one in every five faces obesity and the long list of unpleasant consequences that come with it. With the rise of personal fitness and calorie cutting processed foods, how could this be? As the question ominously looms over the American public at large, famed television journalist Katie Couric and seasoned issue-doc director Stephanie Soechtig have teamed up, put together an all-star cast and crew of medical and political experts who aim to expose the ugly truths within the answer. Bolstered by the...
- 5/9/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
The latest documentary to tackle the tangle of American food politics, Fed Up focuses its lens on one specific aspect of the you-are-what-you-eat battle: childhood obesity rates. Directed by Stephanie Soechtig and produced by Katie Couric and Laurie David (An Inconvenient Truth), the film follows four overweight teens to their doctor's appointments, sports practices, and home kitchens, in an attempt to answer the question of why these children can't seem to lose weight.
Is 'Fed Up' the Next 'Inconvenient Truth and Other Sundance 2014 Questions
"The solution is eating...
Is 'Fed Up' the Next 'Inconvenient Truth and Other Sundance 2014 Questions
"The solution is eating...
- 5/9/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Title: Fed Up Radius-twc Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: B+ Director: Stephanie Soechtig Screenplay: Mark Monroe, Stephanie Soechtig Cast: Bill Clinton, Tom Harkin, Kelly Brownell, Robert Lustig, Michael Pollan, Katie Couric Screened at: Dolby24, NYC, 4/10/14 Opens: May 9, 2014 If you’ve been keeping up with the tsunami of books, articles and movies about America’s onward rush to obesity and diabetes, you won’t find anything new in Stephanie Soechtig’s documentary. (Soechtig’s previous feature, “Tapped,” deals with America’s love of bottled water.) Nonetheless, “Fed Up” deserves accolades for the stunning graphics (you’ll see labels stating 25g of sugar converted instantly to percentage of sugar in [ Read More ]
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- 5/6/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Today was determinedly eclectic, the kind of cinephile's dream that you can only put together in a festival as inclusive as Telluride. As I walked briskly toward the Sheridan Opera House to catch a tripartite program -- a screening of "Slow Food Story," a documentary about its founder, the charismatic Carlo Petrini, followed by the awarding of the inaugural Food, Inc. Movement Award to Alice Waters, and a lively and emotional panel discussion among Alice, the film's director, Stefano Sardo, Michael Pollan, and Berlinale head Dieter Kosslick -- I run into Davia Nelson, one of the Kitchen Sisters, walking briskly in the opposite direction. "Not going to Alice's program?!," I ask, surprised. "No, I wish I could, but I'm doing the Q & A with Nicolas Philibert, who I love," she says. Oof, I really wanted to see "La Maison de la Radio," Philibert's documentary about Radio France, having twice spent...
- 9/1/2013
- by Meredith Brody
- Thompson on Hollywood
While the Kickstarter goal for Angelo Garro's Omnivore Salt, "a family recipe that makes food taste better," has not yet been raised, its campaign has made half its goal in just three days, with thirty-six days to go. Garro is looking to market his spiced salt, which we can only be sure includes sodium chloride and fennel, and needs some funds to get going. What better way to get your product off the ground than with some endorsements from serious foodies? Chez Panisse Alice Walker says, "This salt is so indispensable, I bring a bag everywhere I go!" "The Omnivore's Dilemma" author Michael Pollan says, "Angelo Garro has been one of my most influential teachers, in the kitchen as well as in the fields and woods. As a rule I don’t do product endorsements, but my debt to Angelo is so deep, and his salt so special, that I have no choice.
- 8/2/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
HBO's whip smart salon Friday night is "Real Time with Bill Maher." This week's lineup includes film director Haifaa Al Mansour as the top-of-show interview guest. Journalist Michael Pollan is the mid-show interview guest. The roundtable guests are correspondent Joshua Green, journalist Bob Herbert and food columnist Julia Reed. Haifaa Al-Mansour.s film "Wadjda", recently screened at the London Film Festival, is reportedly the first film to be shot entirely within Saudi Arabia and it's the first internationally screened Saudi film by a female director. Al-Mansour earned international acclaim for her award-winning 2005 documentary .Women Without Shadows.. Her work has influenced a whole new wave of Saudi filmmakers in a country that banned them in the 1980s. Al-Mansour.s work addresses the...
- 6/20/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
At Any Price is the story of Henry Whipple (Quaid), a family man running a large farming empire in Iowa corn country. He faces direct competition against Jim Johnson (Clancy Brown), along with opposition to continuing the family legacy from one of his sons, (played by Zac Efron). At Any Price is the story of an American salesman trying to survive brutal competition, especially when “Expand or Die” has become the mantra of all farmers.
Director Bahrani had been a top favorite director of late critic Roger Ebert, and previously has made films like Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, and Man Push Cart. He co-wrote At Any Price with Hallie Elizabeth Newton.
I sat down with Quaid and Rahmani in a roundtable interview to discuss At Any Price, its relevancy to the nation’s economic crisis, Quaid’s goals as an actor, and more.
At Any Price opens in Chicago on May 3.
Dennis,...
Director Bahrani had been a top favorite director of late critic Roger Ebert, and previously has made films like Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, and Man Push Cart. He co-wrote At Any Price with Hallie Elizabeth Newton.
I sat down with Quaid and Rahmani in a roundtable interview to discuss At Any Price, its relevancy to the nation’s economic crisis, Quaid’s goals as an actor, and more.
At Any Price opens in Chicago on May 3.
Dennis,...
- 5/1/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
When Michael Pollan first issued his seven-word eating mantra—“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”—it must have sounded strange to those reared in a world of only iceberg and romaine lettuce. Indeed, I must confess it took moving to California for me to discover the varying tastes and textures of collard greens, kale and mustard greens. But turn to the world of meat, and you still find limited choices for wedding-reception menus: beef, chicken or fish. The only real variation in meat depends on cut. Or does it? Enter the kitchen of Brooklyn-based hunter Steven Rinella, and one can suddenly...
- 9/18/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
No, I’m not talking about Seth McFarlane’s new movie about a foul-mouthed teddy bear. What we’re seeing today is how much influence Ted the popular lecture series behind the YouTube channel TEDTalks is having on a corner of the Web. It’s cited as the inspiration for another YouTube channel that launched today: Thnkr, from @radical.media — a firm best known for its work in commercials and music videos. the company says that it will tap people including authors Walter Isaacson and Michael Pollan, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, and Talking Heads singer David Byrne to provide “extraordinary access to the people, stories, and ideas that are transforming our world.” The Ted lectures “blazed a path by answering the desire of a mass audience to have intelligent conversations online,” says @radical.media CEO Jon Kamen. Thnkr “extends that concept” via narrative storytelling. Initial series include Bookd (discussions about...
- 7/2/2012
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
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