Author Archive: Leonard Zelig
Limited Box Office Weekend for USA 25-27 July 2008
The French film Tell no one remains at the top of the Limited Box Office Chart, the only Guerrilla film on the chart, Baghead managed to get a boost out of its micro expansion to 7 theaters in LA and NY ramping up to the position number 12th. Lw Tw Title [...]
Netflix close down Red Envelope Entertainment, its Theatrical Acquisitions and Production Division
…via indiewire In its short life ( 3 years), Red Envelope acquired 126 films, including the Golden Globe nominated Sherrybaby, co-produced a slate of movies for IFC TV (including Kirby Dick’s This Film is Not Yet Rated) and partnered on theatrical distribution for such micro-hits as 2 Days in Paris with Samuel Goldwyn, No End [...]
BAGHEAD Premieres today in NY and LA
Trailer Last Friday I got the chance to meet the Duplass Brothers, after their success with the The Puffy Chair, my natural question was, Are you living out of this? Their answer; Actually yes dude! Since 2005 they had been working in different projects in development with different studios and they even moved to LA, [...]
Dogme 95 and the Vow of Chastity
Dogme 95 used to be an avant-garde filmmaking movement. Started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg with the signing of the Dogme 95 Manifesto and the Vow of Chastity. They were later joined by fellow Danish directors Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, to form a group sometimes known as [...]
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Leonard Zelig is an award-winning film and theater director with more than 15 years of experience in the industry. Recent awards include – the prestigious Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors Award as Best Director for the play "An Empty Shoebox", where he shared the stage with Alfonso Cuaron and Alfred Molina (2004) and the International [...]
The beginning: The French New Wave Movement
In January of 1954 François Truffaut publishes his essay "Une Certaine Tendance of Cinema Francaise" in Cahiers du Cinema in which he stated that the director was the "author" of his work; that great directors such as Renoir, or Hitchcock, have distinct styles and themes that permeate all of their films.This article originate the French [...]
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