Remember the Fallen

Angus O’Brien in Jack Fessenden’s FOXHOLE, unspooling Fall 2021. Photo by Bahram Foroughi

Preorder today! JAKOB’S WIFE out on Blu-ray July 20!

Cinema Paradiso looks to bring foreign and independent films to Avenue A

Cinema Paradiso is hoping to set up shop at 44 Avenue A in the East Village,
where the Pioneer Theatre once was.

The Pioneer Theatre unspooled many Glass Eye classics, such as
HABIT, SANTO DOMINGO BLUES, THE OFF SEASON, THE ROOST,
AUTOMATONS, I CAN SEE YOU, SATAN HATES YOU and more.

The Pioneer also made indy history in March 2002, when it began midnight screenings of
Donnie Darko that ran for 28 consecutive months.

EV Grieve has the scoop.

Adam Kritzer’s GOOD FUNK featuring Fessenden set to debut June 8 2021

Comingsoon.net has the scoop:

Exclusive Good Funk Trailer & Key Art From Adam Kritzer’s Drama

BY KYLIE HEMMERT

ON MAY 17, 2021

ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive trailer and key art from the drama movie Good Funk, written and directed by Adam Kritzer. The film is the product of an unprecedented film training and visual literacy program that recruited young Brooklynites to learn filmmaking craft, share their stories, and collaborate for pay on a feature film production. The result is a portrait of love enduring and a testament to discovering family in unexpected places.

Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, Good Funk tells the story of three generations of citizens, Afro-Caribbean immigrants, whose lives intersect through acts of kindness both big and small. The polyrhythmic narrative is as much a living, breathing document of a community as it is a touching collection of moments in the lives of its inhabitants—cinematic instances that may initially seem elusive in intent but coalesce into a poignant, meaningful cadence.

Check out the exclusive trailer below along with the key art:

Good Funk stars Leonay Shepherd, Kalae Nouveau, Larry Fessenden (Habit, Wendigo, The Dead Don’t Die), Brandy Burre (The Wire, Perfect Poison, Slash), Cedric Cannon (FBI, Moon and Sun), Dina Shihabi (Daredevil, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan), Sandra Reaves-Phillips (‘Round Midnight, Lean on Me, Law & Order), Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris (Sharp Objects, Room 104), and William Nadylam (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald).

The movie was produced by Kritzer (Lace Crater) and Harrison Atkins (Easy) and is the winner of the Harlem Spotlight for Best Feature at the 2016 Harlem International Film Festival.

Good Funk will be available to purchase or rent digitally on June 8, 2021 from 1091 Pictures. You can pre-order your copy here!

Saturday Matinee Film Discussion: CHINATOWN with Walter Chaw and Larry Fessenden

Fessenden joins film critic Walter Chaw to discuss Roman Polanski’s 1974 film, Chinatown.

Video is set to premiere on FRIDAY, May 14 at 9PM EST.

To attend these weekly discussions live, ask Walter or his filmmaker guests your own questions,
and receive a full recommended filmography list,
please register on Denver Public Library’s Event page.

Visit Spot On Colorado for more info HERE

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Fessenden interviewed on Monsters, Madness & Magic Podcast

Available on all podcast platforms: Spotify, YouTube, Patreon, Apple Podcasts
and iHeartRadio.

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NY Times: JAKOB’S WIFE one of “Five movies to Stream Now”

By Erik Piepenburg

April 30, 2021

‘Jakob’s Wife’

Rent or buy it on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Vudu.

When a mysterious figure attacks Anne (Barbara Crampton), the wife of a conservative small-town pastor (Larry Fessenden), it does more than turn her into a bloodsucking monster. The bite from the Master, as the Nosferatu-looking vampire is known, also awakens in Anne a thirst for the self-determination and sexual confidence she’s kept under wraps her entire marriage. Reinvented as a vamp (sorry), Anne is forced to question what it means to be a wife, a woman and a human.

Travis Stevens’s film layers feminism on top of comedy on top of vampire myth and gross-out splatter. It mostly clicks, and the reason is Crampton. With a decades-long career in out-there films including “Re-Animator,” she’s as close to acting royalty as horror gets. Here she is fearless as a woman discovering her powers within. (Stevens told the horror movie magazine Rue Morgue one of his goals was to give Crampton “her version” of Gena Rowlands’s harrowing performance in the John Cassavetes film “A Woman Under the Influence.”) Crampton’s chemistry with Fessenden, another horror vet, is the film’s activating element.

Read article in The New York Times

Fessenden talks JAKOB’S WIFE, horror films and GEP on The Movies That Made Me podcast

Fessenden chats with Joe Dante & Josh Olsen about some of his favorite movies on
THE MOVIES THAT MADE ME Podcast, presented by Trailer From Hell.

Listen on the Episode Page HERE

NEW in the CINEZONE: SEE SAW by Ben Duff

SEE SAW: writer/director Ben Duff. (2014, 9 mins)
Cinematography by Ben Duff.
Featuring Annabeth Faucher and Bryan Papciak.
G&E by Abbey Killheffer.

watch the teaser below
and join us in the CineZone to see the film

Director’s Statement:

This was my final project in my junior year video class in college. People always say that scent is the sense that is strongest tied to memory, but I think that sound is up there as well. I thought it might be interesting to compare the idea of a lost memory to the idea of a song being stuck in your head… a song you can’t quite place. I thought that might be similar to the idea of witnessing something horrible – not being able to remember but also not being able to forget. The idea was that the song would build as the memory progressed, until the memory became fully formed. It was also kind of an exploration of the idea called a “memory palace” – in which recollection is envisioned as exploring a physical space.