Tag: Charles Baker

Toll Booth: Rosenberg’s “Approaching The Unknown” Finds Docking Station at Paramount & Vertical Ent.

A project we've been tracking for the better part of half a decade when it was known as "Ad Inexplorata" and was part of...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Elijah Rosenberg’s Ad Inexplorata

Naturally the post production process can be a lengthier one when latticeworking critical sci-fi elements with technical aspects. As is the nature with our set of...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win

Films gods be damned. After guesstimating its eventual arrival on the film fest circuit and tracking it since it first went into production back...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Elijah Rosenberg’s Ad Inexplorata: Toward the Unknown

An instrumental and influential American independent film promoter/curator/supporter/taste-maker in the business, Rooftop Films creator and artistic director Mark Elijah Rosenberg (pictured above) moves from...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #59. Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win

You Can't Win Director: Robinson Devor Writers: Robinson Devor, Michael Pitt, Barry Gifford and Charles Mudede Producers: Robert Scarff, Zach Sebastian, Michael Pitt U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Jeremy...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #57. David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints Director/Writer: David Lowery Producer(s): Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen, Primary Productions’ Amy Kaufman, Sailor Bear’s Toby Halbrook, Evolution...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.