#Domenica Cameron-Scorsese

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A Cinecittà World, fino a domenica 5 novembre 2023, va in scena l’Halloween più lungo d’Italia. Un giro sulle attrazioni regalerà dolcetti a tutti i bambini mentre fra zucche giganti, covoni di fieno, lapidi e bare del cinema, la Halloween Street si popola di fantasmi, streghe e scheletri pronti a infestare gli edifici della New York anni Venti. Cinecittà World, con sede a Castel Romano, è un parco divertimenti unico nel suo genere, in grado di far divertire piccoli e grandi con proposte sempre nuove. Ne parlo con Stefano Cigarini, Amministratore Delegato di Cinecittà World. Attrazioni all’avanguardia vivono accanto alla storia del nostro cinema, con nomi importanti che firmano allestimenti e scenografie che ci ricordano esperienze cinematografiche premiate e conosciute nel mondo. Cosa è Cinecittà World e quale il segreto del suo successo? Cinecittà World è il parco divertimenti del cinema e della televisione. Fondato da Cinecittà, ospita in oltre trenta ettari di superficie quaranta attrazioni, sette aree tematiche dedicate ai principali generi cinematografici e sei spettacoli al giorno. Le scenografie sono firmate da Dante Ferretti, tre volte premio Oscar, in un mix di set originali e ricostruiti. Fra i principali l’Ingresso del Parco con il grande Moloch di Cabiria, primo kolossal italiano mai realizzato, il set di Gangs of New York, per la regia di Martin Scorsese, con protagonisti Leonardo Di Caprio, Cameron Diaz e Daniel Day Lewis, set dell’antica Roma - fra cui la maestosa arena di Ben Hur - un intero villaggio del Far West, ambienti e memorabilia di Fellini, oltre ad altri venti set cinematografici e televisivi. Accanto alla storia del cinema sono presenti attrazioni innovative e uniche in Italia quali Volarium – Il cinema volante, Jurassic War - che ci porta nell’isola dei dinosauri, indietro nel tempo di sessanta milioni di anni, montagne russe uniche come Inferno o Altair e tante attrazioni immersive/multimediali di ultima generazione. Nelle ultime edizioni si è registrato un successo sempre maggiore di pubblico. Quali gli obiettivi raggiunti e quali i progetti in cantiere?  Cinecittà World è l’ultimo nato dei grandi parchi tematici esistenti in Italia. Operativo dal 2015 è cresciuto negli anni fino a diventare il quarto parco italiano, primo del centro Italia. Ad oggi con oltre il 90% di vendite online il parco più “digital” e avanzato del Belpaese. Da questa stagione ha preso il via un grande piano di sviluppo che prevede la costruzione di un resort che ospiti tre parchi: il già operativo Cinecittà World, il parco del cinema, Roma World il parco dedicato all’antica Roma, dove gli ospiti vivono una giornata da antico Romano e, Aqua World, che vedrà la luce nel 2024, il parco acquatico di Cinecittà. Quale il messaggio principale rivolto alle famiglie?  I parchi divertimenti sono uno dei (pochi) luoghi rimasti per condividere emozioni dal vivo insieme ai propri figli, genitori, parenti. Momenti di gioia non filtrati o mediati da cellulari ed altri device tecnologici, che normalmente ci isolano dal resto del mondo. È una maniera per riconnettersi, in un contesto felice, tra generazioni. Un’opportunità di vivere giornata all’aria aperta e di sfidare le proprie paure ed i propri limiti. Inoltre, pur trovandosi all’interno di un grande parco, si possono lasciare liberi i bambini di scorrazzare, poiché si tratta di un ambiente controllato e protetto. Questo incrementa la loro autostima, il senso di divertimento e di avventura, in sintesi la loro crescita emotiva e cognitiva. Il valore aggiunto è offrire un intrattenimento per tutte le età, con giochi e spettacoli dal vivo, proposte per un pubblico variegato, ricordando la grandezza della città eterna che ha ospitato set di capolavori del cinema mondiale.    La proposta di Cinecittà World è unica nel panorama italiano, poiché nel parco si rivivono ottant’anni di storia del cinema passata, presente e futura. Roma è una delle capitali

del cinema mondiale; pensate che a Cinecittà sono stati girati oltre tremila film, con cinquantaquattro Oscar vinti da queste pellicole. L’alternanza di attrazioni e spettacoli al parco permette di godersi la giornata sia ai cacciatori di emozioni forti sia a chi vuole rilassarsi comodamente seduto tra gli show ed i ristoranti tematici del parco. In effetti Cinecittà World è un parco per tutte le età e con diversi livelli di lettura, dai giochi per bambini ai pezzi storici del cinema che datano dal 1940 in poi. Spazio al divertimento e non solo. Anche momenti per riflettere sui tempi che cambiano, tenendo sempre d’occhio il passato che ci ha resi famosi nel mondo.  Il parco è ricco di tecnologie innovative: dalla realtà virtuale di Assassin’s Creed o Guerra dei Mondi ai simulatori di Jurassic War, dallo spettacolare schermo concavo - alto come un palazzo di quattro piani - di Volarium agli effetti speciali contenuti nella montagna russa “Inferno”, che sfreccia tra i gironi danteschi, dal film su Leonardo da Vinci alle esperienze con la realtà aumentata all’interno della Cinecittà Street, l’ospite si trova immerso in un gioco continuo di rimandi fra passato e futuro. Perché Halloween va festeggiato a Cinecittà World?  Perché è uno degli Halloween più lunghi e più grandi d’Italia: oltre centomila persone nel mese e, fino al 5 novembre, tredici attrazioni da paura - da quelle per bambini alle esperienze per temerari dal cuore forte - e un grande immaginario cinematografico horror che prende vita e si dispiega tutti i giorni nel parco. Solo qui si possono vivere esperienze come l’Horror Hotel, Manikomio, Il Cinema dei morti viventi o la Zombie Walk, eventi come la Cinefiera Horror Show il 21-22 ottobre, prima fiera in Italia dedicata al mondo di Halloween, o feste serali come quelle previste nelle tre grandi Halloween Nights del 28 e 31 ottobre, e 4 novembre. Sia che la vostra idea di paura si limiti ad un innocuo “Dolcetto Scherzetto” sia che siate pronti a farvi svegliare di notte (nell’Ostello Maledetto) da mostri sanguinanti ed inquietanti… Cinecittà World è il posto dove vivere l’Halloween più divertente d’Italia! www.cinecittaworld.it

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EVIL Watches from the Shadows. "The Lurker" reviewed! (Indican Pictures / Screener)

EVIL Watches from the Shadows. “The Lurker” reviewed! (Indican Pictures / Screener)

A gruesome murder has brought a looming shadow over a high school. However, the shadow is not great enough to thwart the spirits of a group of thespian high school seniors in the throes of their last Shakespearian performances of the year of Romeo and Juliet. Determined to excel, the peer admired Taylor Wilson keeps her college acceptance hopes high on her well-received nightly performances as…

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January 2018 U.S. Theatrical Film Releases Directed By Women

January 5 Blame dir Quinn Shephard (LIMITED + VOD) The Strange Ones dir. Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein (LIMITED) In the Land of Pomegranates dir. Hava Kohav Beller (LIMITED)

January 9 Almost Paris dir.  Domenica Cameron-Scorsese  (LIMITED)

January 12 My Art dir. Laurie Simmons (LIMITED) Vazante dir. Daniela Thomas (LIMITED) Freak Show dir. Trudie Styler  (LIMITED)

January 19 Forever My Girl dir. Bethany Ashton Wolf (WIDE)

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Sean Astin plays the lead as Senator Bennett Wilde in the political thriller “A Social Contract,” which explores  the dynamics and social constructs of power, relationships and government. A political dinner turns deadly when a group of power-starved politicians fight for a seat of survival on a helicopter at the onset of a nuclear war.

Craig Parker, the elf Haldir in the Lord of the Rings, also stars. Details on his role have not yet been announced.

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So I'm super happy to see people finally talking about #Goncharov but I'm sad we still aren't giving it's sequel the same treatment

Andrey's Legacy (2005) was the actual directorial debut of Scorsese's daughter Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, who made the bold choice to set the film in Iraq and continue Goncahrov's mafioso themes through the lens of American warcrimes.

It ended up going straight to DVD and was largely black-listed, but it's incredible

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The Lurker will be released on DVD and Digital on April 14 via Indican Pictures. The 2019 independent slasher marks the feature directorial debut of Eric Liberacki.

Genre favorites Scout Taylor-Compton, Naomi Grossman, and Ari Lehman star with Adam Huss, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Rikki Lee Travolta, Michael Emery, and Casey Tutton.

Read on for the trailer and synopsis.

A group of high school students, celebrating their final performance of Romeo and Juliet, begin to slowly disappear one at a time. As students and faculty begin to die at the hands of a savage killer, it’s a race against time for the cast to find the killer and escape with their lives or face their final curtain call.

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Mys hrůzy - další vynikající film od Martina Scorseseho

Max Cady (Robert De Niro) opouští vězení, kam byl před čtrnácti lety odsouzen za znásilnění. Je odhodlán pomstít se svému tehdejšímu obhájci Samu Bowdenovi (Nick Nolte), který ve snaze potrestat zločin, zatajil soudu důležitý důkaz svědčící v Maxův prospěch. Jeho plán je nelítostný a promyšlený. Nejprve Samovi, jeho ženě Leigh (Jessica Lange) a patnáctileté dceři…- Více na https://www.kritiky.cz/mys-hruzy-dalsi-vynikajici-film-od-martina-scorseseho/

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Review: The Lurker (2019)

The Lurkeris a slasher thriller film starring scream queen Scout Taylor Compton as high school senior Taylor, who seems to be at the epicentre of a series of killings at her high school. This film is interesting, to say the least. The performances were for the most part pretty good. Nothing groundbreaking, but serviceable for a high school slasher story. My personal favourite was the creepy drama…

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The Lurker

A group of theatre students, celebrating their final show, begin to slowly disappear one at a time.

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HOLY SHIT!!

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The New York Times

The Queen of Change

With “The Artist’s Way,” Julia Cameron invented the way people renovate the creative soul.

By Penelope Green

Feb. 2, 2019

SANTA FE, N.M. — On any given day, someone somewhere is likely leading an Artist’s Way group, gamely knocking back the exercises of “The Artist’s Way” book, the quasi-spiritual manual for “creative recovery,” as its author Julia Cameron puts it, that has been a lodestar to blocked writers and other artistic hopefuls for more than a quarter of a century. There have been Artist’s Way clusters in the Australian outback and the Panamanian jungle; in Brazil, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan; and also, as a cursory scan of Artist’s Way Meetups reveals, in Des Moines and Toronto. It has been taught in prisons and sober communities, at spiritual retreats and New Age centers, from Esalen to Sedona, from the Omega Institute to the Open Center, where Ms. Cameron will appear in late March, as she does most years. Adherents of “The Artist’s Way” include the authors Patricia Cornwell and Sarah Ban Breathnach. Pete Townshend, Alicia Keys and Helmut Newton have all noted its influence on their work.

So has Tim Ferriss, the hyperactive productivity guru behind “The Four Hour Workweek,” though to save time he didn’t actually read the book, “which was recommended to me by many megaselling authors,” he writes. He just did the “Morning Pages,” one of the book’s central exercises. It requires you write three pages, by hand, first thing in the morning, about whatever comes to mind. (Fortunes would seem to have been made on the journals printed to support this effort.) The book’s other main dictum is the “Artist’s Date” — two hours of alone time each week to be spent at a gallery, say, or any place where a new experience might be possible.

Elizabeth Gilbert, who has “done” the book three times, said there would be no “Eat, Pray, Love,” without “The Artist’s Way.” Without it, there might be no adult coloring books, no journaling fever. “Creativity” would not have its own publishing niche or have become a ubiquitous buzzword — the “fat-free” of the self-help world — and business pundits would not deploy it as a specious organizing principle.

The book’s enduring success — over 4 million copies have been sold since its publication in 1992 — have made its author, a shy Midwesterner who had a bit of early fame in the 1970s for practicing lively New Journalism at the Washington Post and Rolling Stone, among other publications, and for being married, briefly, to Martin Scorsese, with whom she has a daughter, Domenica — an unlikely celebrity. With its gentle affirmations, inspirational quotes, fill-in-the-blank lists and tasks — write yourself a thank-you letter, describe yourself at 80, for example — “The Artist’s Way” proposes an egalitarian view of creativity: Everyone’s got it.

The book promises to free up that inner artist in 12 weeks. It’s a template that would seem to reflect the practices of 12-step programs, particularly its invocations to a higher power. But according to Ms. Cameron, who has been sober since she was 29, “12 weeks is how long it takes for people to cook.”

Now 70, she lives in a spare adobe house in Santa Fe, overlooking an acre of scrub and the Sangre de Cristo mountain range. She moved a few years ago from Manhattan, following an exercise from her book to list 25 things you love. As she recalled, “I wrote juniper, sage brush, chili, mountains and sky and I said, ‘This is not the Chrysler Building.’” On a recent snowy afternoon, Ms. Cameron, who has enormous blue eyes and a nimbus of blonde hair, admitted to the jitters before this interview. “I asked three friends to pray for me,” she said. “I also wrote a note to myself to be funny.”

In the early 1970s, Ms. Cameron, who is the second oldest of seven children and grew up just north of Chicago, was making $67 a week working in the mail room of the Washington Post. At the same time, she was writing deft lifestyle pieces for the paper — like an East Coast Eve Babitz. “With a byline, no one knows you’re just a gofer,” she said.

In her reporting, Ms. Cameron observed an epidemic of green nail polish and other “Cabaret”-inspired behaviors in Beltway bars, and slyly reviewed a new party drug, methaqualone. She was also, by her own admission, a blackout drunk. “I thought drinking was something you did and your friends told you about it later,” she said. “In retrospect, in cozy retrospect, I was in trouble from my first drink.”

She met Mr. Scorsese on assignment for Oui magazine and fell hard for him. She did a bit of script-doctoring on “Taxi Driver,” and followed the director to Los Angeles. “I got pregnant on our wedding night,” she said. “Like a good Catholic girl.” When Mr. Scorsese took up with Liza Minnelli while all three were working on “New York, New York,” the marriage was done. (She recently made a painting depicting herself as a white horse and Mr. Scorsese as a lily. “I wanted to make a picture about me and Marty,” she said. “He was magical-seeming to me and when I look at it I think, ‘Oh, she’s fascinated, but she doesn’t understand.’”)

In her memoir, “Floor Sample,” published in 2006, Ms. Cameron recounts the brutality of Hollywood, of her life there as a screenwriter and a drunk. Pauline Kael, she writes, described her as a “pornographic Victorian valentine, like a young Angela Lansbury.” Don’t marry her for tax reasons, Ms. Kael warns Mr. Scorsese. Andy Warhol, who escorts her to the premiere of “New York, New York,” inscribes her into his diary as a “lush.” A cocaine dealer soothes her — “You have a tiny little wife’s habit” — and a doctor shoos her away from his hospital when she asks for help, telling her she’s no alcoholic, just a “sensitive young woman.” She goes into labor in full makeup and a Chinese dressing gown, vowing to be “no trouble.”

“I think it’s fair to say that drinking and drugs stopped looking like a path to success,” she said. “So I luckily stopped. I had a couple of sober friends and they said, ‘Try and let the higher power write through you.’ And I said, What if he doesn’t want to?’ They said, ‘Just try it.’”

So she did. She wrote novels and screenplays. She wrote poems and musicals. She wasn’t always well-reviewed, but she took the knocks with typical grit, and she schooled others to do so as well. “I have unblocked poets, lawyers and painters,” she said. She taught her tools in living rooms and classrooms — “if someone was dumb enough to lend us one,” she said — and back in New York, at the Feminist Art Institute. Over the years, she refined her tools, typed them up, and sold Xeroxed copies in local bookstores for $20. It was her second husband, Mark Bryan, a writer, who needled her into making the pages into a proper book.

The first printing was about 9,000 copies, said Joel Fotinos, formerly the publisher at Tarcher/Penguin, which published the book in 1992. There was concern that it wouldn’t sell. “Part of the reason,” Mr. Fotinos said, “was that this was a book that wasn’t like anything else. We didn’t know where to put it on the shelves — did it go in religion or self-help? Eventually there was a category called ‘creativity,’ and ‘The Artist’s Way’ launched it.” Now an editorial director at St. Martin’s Press, Mr. Fotinos said he is deluged with pitches from authors claiming they’ve written “the new Artist’s Way.”

“But for Julia, creativity was a tool for survival,” he said. “It was literally her medicine and that’s why the book is so authentic, and resonates with so many people.”

“I am my tool kits,” Ms. Cameron said.

And, indeed, “The Artist’s Way” is stuffed with tools: worksheets to be filled with thoughts about money, childhood games, old hurts; wish lists and exercises, many of which seem exhaustive and exhausting — “Write down any resistance, angers and fears,” e.g. — and others that are more practical: “Take a 20 minutes walk,” “Mend any mending” and “repot any pinched and languishing plants.” It anticipates the work of the indefatigable Gretchen Rubin, the happiness maven, if Ms. Rubin were a bit kinder but less Type-A.

“When I teach, it’s like watching the lights come on,” said Ms. Cameron. “My students don’t get lectured to. I think they feel safe. Rather than try and fix themselves, they learn to accept themselves. I think my work makes people autonomous. I feel like people fall in love with themselves.”

Anne Lamott, the inspirational writer and novelist, said that when she was teaching writing full-time, her own students swore by “The Artist’s Way.” “That exercise — three pages of automatic writing — was a sacrament for people,” Ms. Lamott wrote in a recent email. “They could plug into something bigger than the rat exercise wheel of self-loathing and grandiosity that every writer experiences: ‘This could very easily end up being an Oprah Book,’ or ‘Who do I think I’m fooling? I’m a subhuman blowhard.’”

“She’s given you an assignment that is doable, and I think it’s kind of a cognitive centering device. Like scribbly meditation,” Ms. Lamott wrote. “It’s sort of like how manicurists put smooth pebbles in the warm soaking water, so your fingers have something to do, and you don’t climb the walls.”

In the wild.CreditRamsay de Give for The New York Times

Ms. Cameron continues to write her Morning Pages every day, even though she continues, as she said, to be grouchy upon awakening. She eats oatmeal at a local cafe and walks Lily, an eager white Westie. She reads no newspapers, or social media (perhaps the most grueling tenet of “The Artist’s Way” is a week of “reading deprivation”), though an assistant runs a Twitter and Instagram account on her behalf. She writes for hours, mostly musicals, collaborating with her daughter, a film director, and others.

Ms. Cameron may be a veteran of the modern self-care movement but her life has not been all moonbeams and rainbows, and it shows. She was candid in conversation, if not quite at ease. “So I haven’t proven myself to be hilarious,” she said with a flash of dry humor, adding that even after so many years, she still gets stage-fright before beginning a workshop.

She has written about her own internal critic, imagining a gay British interior designer she calls Nigel. “And nothing is ever good enough for Nigel,” she said. But she soldiers on.

She will tell you that she has good boundaries. But like many successful women, she brushes off her achievements, attributing her unlooked-for wins to luck.

“If you have to learn how to do a movie, you might learn from Martin Scorsese. If you have to learn about entrepreneurship, you might learn from Mark” — her second husband. “So I’m very lucky,” she said. “If I have a hard time blowing my own horn, I’ve been attracted to people who blew it for me.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/style/julia-cameron-the-artists-way.html

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The Lurker - USA, 2019 - reviews

The Lurker – USA, 2019 – reviews

The Lurker is a 2019 American horror feature film about a group of theatre students, celebrating their final show, that begins to disappear one at a time.

Directed by Eric Liberacki from a screenplay written by John Lerchen, the movie stars Scout Taylor-Compton, Naomi Grossman, Ari Lehman and Domenica Cameron-Scorsese.

Reviews:

“Even when it fails in several technical and narrative aspects, it…

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The Show Must Go On: Shakespearean Slasher THE LURKER Begins Filming

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The Show Must Go On: Shakespearean Slasher THE LURKER Begins Filming

Filming has begun on a new theatrical – in every sense of the word – horror slasher, The Lurker.

The film stars Scout Taylor-Compton, who’s proven herself an emerging genre actress thanks to turns in the surprisingly-capable Halloween and Halloween II remakes. The rest of the cast is a varied sprinkle of genre mainstays, including Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story: Freak Show), Adam Huss (Power), and even the legendary Ari Lehman, who played the very first Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th. The cast also includes Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, whose father Martin you may have heard of (and who had a small role in 1991’s Cape Feare). Also stars is Rikki Lee Travolta, who is not related to John, but thought he was (it’s a fascinating story. Do a Google).

The Lurker centers around on a high school production of Romeo and Juliet. When students and faculty alike are hunted down by a savage killer, it’s up to the cast to find out who’s forcing them to make their final curtain call. We can only hope the film is better than 2015’s high school play horror The Gallows, but the genre pedigree of its actors (and its neat, Shakespearean paperback-inspired poster, below) is something to be optimistic about.

The Lurker is directed by Eric Liberacki as his first feature, and written and produced by John Lerchen of Forever Safe Productions. Other producers include; Wynona Ying Li, Jake Bloom, Silva Shots’ Nicolas Silva, and FFIILLMM’s Michael Monachos.

Prinicipal photography began November 28th and is taking place in or around the Chicago area, shot dual-cam with Arri Digital Cinema Cameras. |No release date as of yet. Break a leg, guys!

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03-29 NEW YORK CITY, NY - JANUARY 15: (L-R) Oriana Varqas, Carla de la Mora, Bianca Pratt, Victoria Febrer, Mencia Figueroa and Domenica Cameron-Scorsese attend THE HISPANIC SOCIETY of AMERICA ... http://dlvr.it/NlXQtr