Calvet

Calvet concentrates on the existence and art of painter Jean Marc Calvet. A Dominic Allen & Nicholas Allan, Funnel 4 Britdoc Foundation, Evolutions, Palma Professional Audio, One Hands Clapping Publish, Firewalk Films, L'ensemble des Films du Tambour p Soie production. (Worldwide sales: Cat & Paperwork, Paris.) Created by Dominic Allan. Executive producers, Nicholas Allan, Paul Raphael, Tom Roberts, Maxyne Franklin, Beadie Finzi, Jess Search, Alexandre Cornu, Muriel Sorbo, Flore Cosquer, Christine Tomas, Stephanie Cattiaux, Celine Lafontaine. Directed by Dominic Allan.With: Jean Marc Calvet. (French, The spanish language, British dialogue)French-born, Nicaraguan-based artist Jean Marc Calvet recounts a existence story as dramatic and colorful as his intense works of art, in Brit helmer Dominic Allan's crisply made docu "Calvet." Already well-travelled since its premiere in the Sheffield docu fest, pic should still accrue air miles with outings to help fests wherever there's curiosity about charming figures whose tales possess a happy ending. An ancillary afterlife, especially as fodder for niche cable stations, looks assured. An all natural raconteur who talks with machine-gun rapidity both in French and The spanish language, Calvet functions as guide on a holiday to revisit his old haunts. Born within the South of France, he would be a junkie runaway and rent-boy who eventually grew to become a crooked vice cop. Are a bodyguard introduced him to Miami to dedicate yourself a Mafioso, whom Calvet scammed to be able to fund a drug binge in Panama And Nicaragua , before he finally found a more healthy addiction -- to painting. Now a effective artist, Calvet returns to France to search for the boy he left out, resulting in a touching conclusion. Nice utilization of music and time-lapse lensing adds a glossy sheen.Camera (color, HD), Dewald Aukema editor, Paul Carlin music, Edith Progue. Examined on DVD, Hoveton, U.K., August. 29, 2011. (In Sheffield Documentary, Edinburgh, Locarno, Montreal World film festivals.) Running time: 83 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

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My Fairytale

Hans Christian Andersen, played by Kevin Cahoon, must choose to be serious or whimsical in My Fairytale. A PCPA Theaterfest presentation of a musical in two acts with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Original idea and concept by Flemming Enevold. Book by Philip LaZebnik with Enevold, Schwartz, Adam Price and Pierre Westerdahl. Additional music and lyrics, James and Adam Price and the Safri Duo. Directed by Scott Schwartz. Choreography, Michael Jenkinson. Musical director, Callum Morris. Hans Christian Andersen - Kevin Cahoon Jenny Lind - Lesley McKinnell The Boy - Marisa Dinsmoor Shadow - Erik SteinThe Hans Christian Andersen tuner "My Fairytale" distills the kidlit genius' oeuvre into a satisfying narrative brimming with style and color, puppetry and pageant. Appealing songs by Stephen Schwartz -- in his mellow-"Godspell" rather than bravura-"Wicked" mode -- are wrapped around a familiar but workable Dorothy-in-Oz framing device, the woodsmoke flavor of Andersen's darker tales coming through in Scott Schwartz' staging for PCPA. If there's room in the marketplace for a midsized musical extravaganza appealing to moppets and grownups alike, "My Fairytale" could fit the bill. The tuner was originally conceived in Denmark by impresario Flemming Enevold to celebrate the author's 2005 bicentennial, and is now tied to the centennial of California's Danish-American settlement Solvang. In this telling, Andersen (Kevin Cahoon) is poised between an ambition to write serious opera libretti and his whimsical fancies, a readily dramatizable conflict with the added benefit of fidelity to his life's known facts. Offered a late-night challenge at Copenhagen's Royal National Theater to adapt weighty myth "Atalante" for visiting diva Jenny Lind (Lesley McKinnell), Andersen falls through the looking glass -- actually into the briefcase, a nice piece of legerdemain -- into a magical land inhabited by the characters and creatures he will eventually pen, from the Ugly Duckling to the emperors who, respectively, pine for a nightingale and wear no clothes. He can't just click his Red Shoes together three times to get home, but keeps stumbling into adventures inspired by the passionate, even erotically-tinged tales yet to come. The pining Little Mermaid and icy Snow Queen are authentic products of Andersen's psyche, granting a strange dramatic integrity to the journey. Emotional underpinnings are provided by songwriter Schwartz's ecstatic "On the Wings of a Swan" and two of his most stirring ensemble numbers in years, "Stay with Us" and "Can You Imagine That?" While id bubbles beneath the stories' surface, there's also much eye-popping fun, Alejo Vietti's lavish costumes set against Tom Buderwitz's parchment-paper floor and backdrop. Sequences are pleasingly color-coded -- a ravishing blue-green wash for "The Little Mermaid"; Halloween orange and black for marauding robbers -- and puppet designer Emily DeCola provides outsized poultry who menace the Ugly Duckling in a calico-infused barnyard, and a darling saucer-eyed pooch. At this juncture, the spectacle works better than the story. By introducing Andersen as a goofy, screeching child-man already besotted by fables, and having the Lind commission foisted on him rather than its being a personal project, chief librettist Philip LaZebnik undercuts the fundamental premise of a creator genuinely torn between artistic poles. Andersen needs to find his mission en route, but as yet that arc is cloudy. Moreover, LaZebnik hasn't granted enough personality to the grim Shadow (Erik Stein) and peasant Boy (Marisa Dinsmoor) who dog Andersen's steps representing the yin-and-yang of his aesthetic bent. Saddled with Schwartz's unpleasant "Fellow Traveler," they are never less than creepy; one keeps hoping they'll step aside to let us watch the fairy-tale folk, and happily they consistently oblige. Once he sets aside his overaggressive Tommy Steele quality, Cahoon proves a likeable, versatile leading man. And McKinnell's remarkable ability to move from poignant romance to knockabout comedy, as the incarnation of all of Andersen's feminine fantasies, is no fairy tale.Sets, Tom Buderwitz; costumes, Alejo Vietti; lighting, Jennifer "Z" Zornow; sound, Walter T.J. Clissen; puppets, Emily DeCola; musical coordinator, Andrew Fox. Opened, reviewed Aug. 26, 2011. Runs through Sept. 25. Running time: 2 HOURS. Musical Numbers: "Aria," "Andersen's Shadow," "Stay With Us," "Father You Were Weary," "The Emperor of China's Court," "Your Fellow Traveler," "Your Fellow Traveler" (reprise), "Stay With Me," "The Royal Guest Room," "The Dream Waltz," "Bro Bro Brille/Robber's Dance," "On the Wings of a Swan," "Come Drown in My Love," "Conversation," "Atalante of Arcady," "Poor Andersen," "Save Us," "My Fellow Traveler," "Can You Imagine That?," "Finale."With: Andrew Philpot, Sam Zeller, Karin Hendricks, Natasha Harris, Jacqueline Hildebrand, Jillian Van Niel, Sarah Girard, Tracy Leigh Freeman, Layli Kayhani, John Keating, George Walker, Daniel J. Self, Glenn M. Snellgrose II, Nikko Kimzin, Zachary Bukarev-Padlo. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Film Clip Shoots For Type Of Sight

He's focusing on the thrillerHe's only now shooting his latest film - real-existence hostage drama Argo - however it seems Film Clip has already been arranging a potential future gig, entering foretells star in, direct and producer the thriller Type of Sight for Warner Bros. Joel Silver is backing the brand new film, that was initially written like a spec by F Scott Frazier. The plot follows a top-notch commando squad who're moving cargo while handling a huge global threat. To date, so standard thriller pitch, however the hook for that one, and what we should assume Silver and co hope is a strong feature, would be that the story is basically told from the purpose of look at among the figures, similar to an initial-person shooter. It's really no surprise to understand the script has lately seen some fine-tuning from Peter O'Brien, who authored Halo: Achieve for that Xbox 360. We have only one slight concern: does anybody remember Disaster? Which was recommended because of its first-person shooter section, which switched to be really, really annoying. Obviously, the film itself wasn't great, but when the FPS position is not drawn off correctly, we predict it'll just turn many of the audience off. Still, Affleck has demonstrated he is able to handle action using the Town and Silver's no stranger to may be either. Therefore if it comes down together, Type of Sight could be either different things and fun or perhaps a large old mistake...

Time Warner Cable buying Insight for $3B in cash

Time Warner Cable will buy Insight Communications Co. for $3 billion in cash as it bolsters its presence in the Midwest, the company said Monday.The privately held cable operator serves more than 750,000 customers in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. It has about 537,000 high-speed data subscribers, 679,000 video subscribers and 297,000 voice subscribers.Insight is owned by The Carlyle Group, Crestview Partners, MidOcean Partners, members of Insight management and others.''We believe in our business and its long-term prospects and have long thought that Insight's well-run, technologically advanced systems would fit well with our Midwest operations,'' Time Warner Cable Chairman and CEO Glenn Britt said in a statement.Time Warner Cable Inc., based in New York, said that it expects the deal to create annual cost savings of about $100 million, with the majority of those savings coming within two years of the deal closing.Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable company in the U.S. behind Comcast Corp. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Warrior: Film Review

With a fractured nuclear family that Eugene O'Neill would embrace and electrifying fight scenes in the not-quite-mainstream sport of mixed martial arts, Gavin O'Connor's Warrior makes for a sturdy, visceral entertainment. It's a long movie that feels short: It grabs you in early scenes, intense though low-key before all hell breaks loose, then keeps you riveted to its mostly male characters - a father, two sons, a trainer and, yes, a wife who gets left out of key decisions - as members of a blue-collar family head for a winner-takes-all tournament in Atlantic City. Each role is a meaty one for the movie's highly watchable actors while O'Connor's crew, especially cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi and no less than four editors, has carefully constructed an atmosphere in which the implausible might flourish. Superior to last year lionized The Fighter, Warrior may go several rounds starting in early September. Lionsgate needs to put some muscle into its marketing campaign though, and word of mouth will have to energize the fight film's male demographic. O'Connor, who previously helmed the sports movie Miracle, about the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, and Pride and Glory, a multi-generational police family saga, more or less combines these themes within two sets of highly contrasted worlds. There is the darkly shot, working-class neighborhoods of Pittsburgh where a despised pater familias, Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte), sober for nearly 1,000 days following a lifetime of drunken abuse, hangs out, and the sunny suburbs where his high school teacher-son, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), lives with his wife Tess (Jennifer Morrison) and two youngsters. A further contrast comes from that city's sweaty, dirty gyms and a temporary tent in a strip joint parking lot where local punks beat each other into raw meat versus a "World Series" of mixed martial arts staged within the neon glitz of Atlantic City. The movie begins in Pittsburgh where a wary ceasefire between Paddy and his son's family, with everyone refusing to acknowledge the other's existence, gets disrupted by the abrupt re-appearance of Brendan's brother, Tommy (Tom Hardy). He is a ghost from the dead as no one has seen him in 14 years. A back story gradually materializes: Neither brother could stand their dad but Tommy chose to head west with their mother, where she died a painful death from cancer, while Brendan opted to stay in Pittsburgh to be near his sweetheart, whom he eventually married. Tommy resents his brother's "betrayal" almost as much as he does his father's abuse but, oddly, it's his father he chooses to look up: Once a talented amateur wrestler trained by his dad, Tommy wants the old man to train him once again so he can enter the mixed martial-arts event. In a coincidence, of which the film abounds, Brendan also wants to enter that contest as his house is headed for foreclosure and he sees no other option. So the brothers are on a collision course, and the film blithely assumes one can willy-nilly enter this contest despite having no recent experience. A video showing Tommy taking apart a champion while sparing gets posted on the Internet, which partially explains why Tommy is able to enter the tournament. This is the same video that leads to the revelation of Tommy's heroic rescue of fellow Marines while stationed in Iraq, which makes this dark-horse combatant a popular favorite. O'Connor and fellow writers Anthony Tambakis and Cliff Dorfman concentrate on their characters, giving you enough information but leaving plenty of room for these most capable actors to fill in the idiosyncratic derails. Surly and brooding about wrongs, real and imagined, Hardy's thickly muscled, highly tattooed ex-soldier is a ticking bomb. Emotionally, he is in a permanent fighter's crouch, in constant vigilance for the next punch fate will throw his way while looking to do damage to any and all foes. Edgerton is a more nuanced character. Backed into a corner financially, he has no choice, or at least thinks he doesn't, but to fight. His childhood has taught him the need of a strong family so he pores his affection and devotion into his own. Yet, shades of his dad, his decision to re-enter the ring is a selfish one that he shares with his wife only after he's made it. Like many ex-alkies, Nolte's Paddy wraps himself in blandness as a kind of disguise. He's hiding from his former self, even to the point that Tommy says, more than once, he prefers the drunk to this dull and weak person. The "normal" characters in the screenplay help to balance the three Old Testament types. This would include Frank Grillo, who plays Brendan's trainer, dubious about his client but too much of a friend to say no, and Morrison as the wife whom the script shortchanges. The voice of reason is too muted here. For the footage of extended fights over a two-day tournament, whether shooting from the rafters or up close in the feral ring itself, Takayanagi's cameras dart and weave just like fighters. Sometimes they may even miss a punch and instead come to rest on an anxious corner man or a screaming face in the crowd. The excitement of these matches is brilliantly captured, almost horrifyingly so. Did a chiropractor invent this sport? Being slammed on your back or neck repeatedly is a tough way to earn a buck - or even five million. For an "entertainment," Warrior accomplishes a lot. The family drama resonates strongly with a resolution that, in retrospect, seems like the only way the brothers could have rediscovered blood ties. Meanwhile their fights are downright compelling. Instead of interrupting the drama, the story continues in the ring as the two fighters drag a lifetime of emotional torment in with them. They're fighting their demons as much as their opponents. Warrioris one of the few fight films in which winning or losing is notthe key factor. Opens: Friday, Sept. 9 (Lionsgate) Production companies: Lionsgate and Mimran Schur Pictures present a Lionsgate / Mimran Schur Pictures, Solaris Entertainment and Filmtribe production. Cast: Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Nick Nolte, Denzel Whitaker, Bryan Callen, Kevin Dunn Director: Gavin O'Connor Screenwriters: Gavin O'Connor, Anthony Tambakis, Cliff Dorfman Story by: Gavin O'Connor, Cliff Dorfman Producer: Gavin O'Connor, Greg O'Connor Executive producer: Michael Paseornek, Lisa Ellzey, David Mimran, Jordan Schur, John J. Kelly Director of photography: Masanobu Takayanagi Production designer: Don Leigh Music: Mark Isham Costume designer: Abigail Murray Editor: John Gilroy, Sean Albertson, Matt Cheesé, Aaron Marshall PG-13 rating, 139 minutes Joel Edgerton Tom Hardy Nick Nolte Jennifer Morrison

Nick Lachey Recounts Watching His Wedding On Tv

La, Calif. -- Nick Lachey did what countless other People in america did on Saturday he viewed his wedding screen on TLC because the network broadcast the Nick & Vanessas Wedding special. Just us. [We] opened up a wine bottle and plopped lower about the couch and viewed it Saturday evening, Nick told AccessHollywood.coms Laura Saltman in the NBC Television Experts Association session on Monday, of catching the show together with his new bride, Vanessa Minnillo. It had been pretty awesome, Nick stated of watching the footage from his recent wedding on tv. There have been a few things i didnt even remember happening. It had been type of neat to sit down lower and type of experience again it. Nick says watching the special was really the very first time hed seen footage from his large day which happened in mid This summer on Necker Island, within the British Virgin Islands, a locale possessed by Virgin boss Richard Branson. Clearly its most likely the very best wedding video you can actually aspire to have, something we are able to show the children eventually, Nick stated. As the couple loved the special, you will find no intends to show their newbie of marriage about the small screen. Weve already made the decision that certain, Nick chuckled concerning the couples intends to keep cameras from their marriage. The one thing which was appealing relating to this particular special is there is a obvious beginning and finish to [it] and it is not happening, and thus thats the main reason we could type of wrap our heads around it. When Laura told Nick that numerous writers recommended Vanessa known as Jessica Simpson an elephant, once the actress and new Wipeout host really recommended Jessicas own approaching wedding (to former National football league star Eric Manley) by calling it the elephant within the room, Nick didnt softball bat a watch. That seems like probably the most absurd factor, he stated, mentioning towards the writers presumptions. Beyond talk of his TLC wedding special, Nick was marketing the return of NBCs The Sing-Off, that they returns to as host because it begins a long run this fall. Weve seen the talent on the program explode, Nick stated from the show getting good episodes and much more a capella groups this year. Were looking forward to the chance to really make it bigger and. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.