According to author Raymond Benson, no less than Sean “007” Connery had to secure his role as James Bond by agreeing to be tutored in “the ways of being dapper, witty, and above all, cool.” Coolness is a synonym for effortlessness,and if they can see you sweat the battle is lost. It’s accepted as gospel among independents that a feature film is... “The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe... It’s a glorious time to be a horror fan and a horror moviemaker. “Cool” for some is simply something new to their experience, like a quiet, unassuming doc festival in a former Soviet Bloc country. For all his smooth talking and flamboyant wardrobe, Raji finds himself in a firework conflagration which roasts him live on camera. The site's critical consensus reads: "Be Cool is tepid, square, and lukewarm; as a parody of the music business, it has two left feet. Based on Linda's success in that concert, Chili assuages LaSalle by making him her producer. Your email address will not be published. [4], In an August 2015 interview with Deadline, director F. Gary Gray discussed the failure of the film, stating: "With Be Cool, I made some assumptions in thinking that movie was going to work. George Kennedy also deserved his Oscar and Strother Martin makes for one great villain. I'd just made a successful PG-13 movie [The Italian Job], and when I walked into Be Cool, it was rated R and then at the last minute in preproduction I was told, 'Well, you have to make this PG-13.' - Deuxième film au box-office mondial après Autant emporte le vent, Avatar est l'autre succès interplanétaire du réalisateur de Titanic. Sandi Tan is a moviemaker, writer, and critic known for her 2018 documentary Shirkers, which debuted at Sundance 2018 and won a directing award. During her acceptance speech, she thanks Edie, Sin and Chili. Plus, see what some of your favorite '90s stars look like now. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. Previously, she was the Senior Programmer at the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Montclair Film Festival, and the Sarasota Film Festival. The film opened in March 2005 and was … Cool Runnings is a 1993 American comedy sports film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, Malik Yoba, and John Candy. The film's soundtrack was released on March 1, 2005. I walked in thinking I was going to make one movie and then it changed. Written by Let the cool-hunting commence. A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform. Raji and Elliott set up LaSalle by making him believe that Carr tricked Chili in giving him the $300,000 to get Linda's contract. She’s working with Animal Kingdom and Cinereach to write and direct an adaptation of Elif Batuman’s autobiographical 2017 novel The Idiot. In most cases these impresarios would prefer to remain Oz-like, behind the curtain, and allow you, the patron, to feel like the gamma rays of pure cinema pulsing through your body at their event sprang up as naturally as a Brooklyn block party. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? [5], https://deadline.com/2015/08/f-gary-gray-straight-outta-compton-q-and-a-1201498938/, High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Be_Cool&oldid=982198987, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Chattanooga Choo Choo" – Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, "(Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone" – Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, "Short Pimp" – Noah Lifschey and Dylan Berry, "Travel Russia #2" – The Dollhouse Players, This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 18:35. In film cooling, cool air is bled from the compressor stage, ducted to the internal chambers of the turbine blades, and discharged through small holes in the blade walls. A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit. David Ninh is the Director of Press and Publicity at arthouse distributor Kino Lorber, Inc. overseeing press outreach for theatrical, home video, and streaming. Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50... You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. He calls Brooklyn, NY home. Bing Liu is a Chicago-based director and cinematographer named by Variety as one of 10 documentary filmmakers to watch in 2018. There are countless great scenes including the legendary egg eating contest but one of my favorites has always been the ending with Newman talking to God inside the church. For others, coolness is inseparable from conscience in these times, and a festival’s merits are bound up in its progressive bona fides—the causes it’s endorsing or illuminating. Some have called it a prison movie but I think that's really an insult because the film is so much more than that including one of the best character studies out there. Chili offers to help Tommy's widow, Edie Athens, manage the failing business, which owes $300,000 to hip-hop producer Sin LaSalle. Liu was also a segment director on America to Me, a 10-hour doc series spotlighting inequities in America’s education system. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" This is certainly without question one of my favorite movies and it certainly had a large impact on my life when I watched it as a teenager. Jillian Mayer is a Miami-based visual performance artist and moviemaker whose work has been featured at SXSW and Sundance. Carr is furious about the mistake and demands that Raji talks to Loop at once. Chili is impressed by singer Linda Moon and helps free her from contractual obligations to Nick Carr and Raji, who has a gay Samoan bodyguard named Elliott, an aspiring actor and the butt of Carr and Raji's homophobic jokes. Ina has served on over a dozen festival juries and is regularly invited to speak at festivals, conferences, and universities about film festivals, online curation, and digital distribution. Adventure.