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Limelight opens in New York today
Playing exclusively at the Landmark Sunshine on Houston St between 1st and 2nd Ave. Get your tickets. New York Times: “Limelight” delivers the messed-up goods. New York Daily News: <3 stars>...
View ArticleFilm critic Jeannette Catsoulis loves to hate our films (and we love her for it)
New York Times and NPR film critic Jeannette Catsoulis penned one of my favorite reviews of Cocaine Cowboys, so when I heard she was reviewing Limelight for the paper, I knew we'd get a great pull...
View ArticleMiami screenings of Limelight
We just booked a screening for Soho Beach House members on Wednesday October 12th at 7pm and 9pm. Limelight opens at the O Cinema in Wynwood on Thursday October 13th. You can buy tickets now for the...
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Steve Jobs 1955-2011
We pay our respects to a man who changed our industry, our careers and our lives. Along with the rest of the world. Thank you. R.I.P.
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Our Scandinavian distributor nails Cocaine Cowboys 2
Most of the time our foreign distributors use the key art created by us or Magnolia for their posters and DVD boxes, mainly to save money and also to create a uniform identity for the movie in the...
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Limelight screenings this week: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Miami, Chicago
NEW YORK: Limelight continues its run at New York's Landmark Sunshine on Houston St through next week. We've just scheduled two midnight screenings on Friday 10/14 and Saturday 10/15 at the Nitehawk...
View ArticleLimelight opens tonight at Miami's O Cinema
"Interspersed with the interviews is fantastic, fuzzy video footage shot inside Gatien’s clubs at the height of their popularity. The partying is so intense, the atmosphere so wild, that the clips are...
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Maxim feature on our upcoming doc Dawg Fight
December 2011 issue of Maxim Dawg Fight on Facebook
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The Dawg Fight rough cut
I watched the rough cut of Dawg Fight yesterday. It's a totally different style for us, but works on so many levels. When Sam Rega finished editing Limelight in the spring, he got right to work on the...
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R.I.P. Hitch: Wish I Made it to Dinner
Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011 I found out on Twitter, just before midnight. I usually check Twitter right before I go to bed, and this is the third time this year that a death (the passing of Jobs,...
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Jon Roberts, smuggler featured in Cocaine Cowboys, passed away yesterday
Jon had been battling cancer for several years. He was 63. His autobiography, American Desperado, was published in November. He did an interview in October with NPR to promote the book: "I've talked...
View Articlerakontur in 2012
2011 was a big year for us. We released two feature docs, Square Grouper in April and Limelight in September (on DVD January 24th), and started work on a handful of new projects. In 2012 we plan to...
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Booty Call at Sundance
The Biscayne Times has a feature on The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, a short film we executive produced that premieres at Sundance on January 20th: The film was directed by Jillian Mayer, a...
View ArticleA Helping Hand: a short documentary about funeral home voodoo
Dave told me about a short documentary his friend Nathan Alexander worked on while attending the FSU Film School in 1998, that chronicled the bizarre shenanigans of a feud between rival funeral home...
View ArticlePeter Berg says "The U was my favorite" 30 for 30
Peter Berg had nice things to say about The U in a Sports Illustrated interview: SI.com: Besides Kings Ransom, your documentary about Wayne Gretzky's trade to the L.A. Kings, what were your favorite...
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"The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke" premieres tonight at Sundance
Uncle Luke arrived in Park City last night and will be attending the premiere tonight at the Redstone Cinema 8 at 9:30 pm. rakontur's Evans and Jenna Moshell, the Borscht crew and director Jillian...
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