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At an early morning press conference on Wednesday September 21^st, at Bar Majestic in Downtown Jersey City, Bill Sorvino, Festival Director of the Golden Door Film Festival and organizers along with Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy in attendance announced to the public the three day event and all  films nominated at the first film festival to be held in Jersey City from October 13 to October 16^th, 2011

Read our River View Cover Story on Festival Here

 

Bill Sorvino  said “My goal is to get a lot of independent filmmakers a way to shine, and help the city’s huge renaissance and artistic community.”

41 films, will be featured and Sorvino who has worked hard for the past year and the half on organizing the festival is looking forward to the start of the festival but added in “these last weeks before the festival a lot has to be accomplished.”

The following films have been nominated within their perspective categories:

BEST FEATURE : 

·Nightclub  Victims

·Moment of Truth: The Andy Myers Story

·Life Camera Action

 BEST DIRECTOR OF A FEATURE

Sam Borowski -Nightclub

David Bryant -Victims

Steven Canfield Crowley -Moment of Truth:The Andy Meyers Story

Rohit Gupta- Life Camera Action

William Kely McClung -Kerberos

 

BEST MALE LEAD

 Ernest Borgnine -Nightclub

Rick Haymes,Andy Meyers, in Moment of Truth:The Andy Meyers Story

Shaheed K. Woods -Life Camera Action

William Keli McClung -Kerberos 

 BEST FEMALE LEAD

 Natasha Leone -Nightclub

Sarah Coyle -Victims

Whitney Sullins -Kerberos

Dipti Mehta -Life, Camera, Action

 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 Sally Kellerman- Nightclub

Will Keating- Echo 

Rob Pralgo- Kerberos

Brian Williams- Night Club

 BEST DOCUMENTARY

 The Secret Life of…My Small Urban Backyard -John Dunsten

Dams the Lethal Water Bombs -Sohan Roy

In the Footsteps of Willie Sutton -Rich Gold

Kevin Jay- Duplass

Street Corner Harmony -Abraham Santiago

 BEST SHORT

 Quirk of Fate

The Risen 

Bright 

Asbury Park  

Terms of Employment

Fatakra 

 BEST SHORT SHORT

 Another Day Another Life

In Transit

Business Is Dead

The Waking

Decent Men

 BEST JERSEY CITY FILM

 Business is Dead -Vito LaBruno

Secret Life in My Small Urban Backyard -John Dunsten

Another Day Another Life -Rohit Gupta

  Lifetime Achievement Awards -Paul Sorvino,-Leon Gast–Keys to the City

Sponsors of the Golden Door Film Festival

 -Norman And Bettina Robert’s Foundation

-Friends of the Loew’s

-Building Hosting.com

-Bar Majestic

-LITM

-Art House Productions by Christine Goodman

-Studio III VII I by Stephanie Panepinto

-The city of Jersey City- Chambers

-Five Corners Library- Mildred Hunke Theater

-Oakwood Dental Arts

-Mark Ruggeri DDS

-Rich Rodek Graphic Designs

-PATH

-NYC-JC

-Hudson Reporter

-HAIG graphics

-The CPA Firm of Carr, Dailey, Sullivan and Weir PC

-Ron Shaljian ESQ

-The Riverview Observer

 For More Festival Information Click Here

 Tickets— link on website brownpapertickets.com

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PLAYWRIGHT’S WORKSHOP III

will present workshop performances of short works by Polaris North member playwrights, directed by PN members, and performed by PN member actors and special guest.

Polaris North is located at 245 W. 29th Street, 4th Floor, between 7th and 8th  Avenues, NYC.  

This evening of One-Acts runs one weekend only:  March 11, 12, at 8:00pm and March 13 at 7:00pm. 

There will be a reception after each show. This is a free event but donations will be happily received at the door.

 The program will be: 

       The Sole Connection  by Walter Thinnes 

 Directed by Pamela Wilson

                 Featuring Carla Torgrimson and Bruce Barton

 

Darcey and Duke

by Gabriella Fox

Directed by Phillip Filiato

Featuring

                                 Donna Bostany and Thomas Moran                               

Frisky

By Walter Thinnes

Directed by Pamela Wilson

Featuring

Kaitlin Monte   Greg Cohan   Lena Gilbert

 

The Garden Club

by Philip Filiato

Directed by Pamela Wilson

Featuring

Nina Rochelle   Greg Cohan   Thomas Moran

 

 All about Evelyn

by Laurel Lockhart

Directed by Leslie Lynn Meeker

Featuring

Diane Tyler and Eve Sorel

 

For reservations please call 646.938.4538  Bring a friend!!!!

www.polarisnorth.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 by Sally Deering

Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe lit up the silver screen with her simmering sexuality, bootyliscious bod and a killer smile that warmed film-lovers hearts.  Playing the bubble-headed blonde roles producers cast her in, Monroe delivered sex-appeal by the D-cupful with an added twist of vulnerability, like her character Sugar Kane in “Some Like it Hot.”  When Sugar tells “girl musicians” Josephine and Daphne, (played Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon,)  “I’m tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop,” the chord strikes like an arrow threw the heart and although the line belongs to writer/director Billy Wilder and his co-writer I.A.L. Diamond, the delivery is all Marilyn.

We lost Marilyn Monroe in 1962 to a pill overdose, but her memory lives on in her films and the merchandizing of her image stamped on everything from pocketbooks to postage stamps. You can’t pass a souvenir shop without seeing Monroe’s heavy-lidded eyes and ruby red pucker plastered on T-shirts, pocketbooks, pens, lighters, even coffee mugs – ah, the price of fame.

But Marilyn Monroe was more than just an icon of sexuality. Underneath her platinum-blonde persona, she was a thinker, a smart sugar cookie who took the craft of acting seriously, moving to New York to study “The Method” with Lee Strasberg and challenging herself in complicated film roles. She was intelligent and curious and according to several biographers, Monroe was an avid reader and nourished her mind with good literature.  Writer Joyce Carol Oates even penned a piece about a chance encounter with Marilyn Monroe in the Strand bookstore in New York City back in the 1950s.  In her short-story collection, “I Am No One You Know,” Oates – a college-student at NYU at the time – observed the star poring over book stacks and aware of her fear of being noticed as Marilyn Monroe, Oates’ character offers to handle Monroe’s cash transaction at the register and hands the star her book purchases outside the store.
 
Just recently, Monroe’s love of books and the merchandizing of her image have melded together for a good cause thanks to Tony Lambiase of Jersey City, who recently donated his collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia to the Jersey City free Public Library at a time when New Jersey libraries face budget cuts and capital improvement projects need funding.  Lambiase’s donation includes a life-sized statue of Monroe picked up in a store in Pennsylvania – a gift to him from friends; a sign discovered on a deserted building;  and a framed grouping of  Marilyn Monroe postage stamps circa 1995 issued by the U.S. Post Office. 
 
“I’ve been collecting Marilyn Monroe items since 1990,” Lambiase says. “It started when my sister-in-law bought me a cigarette lighter with Marilyn Monroe’s picture on it.”

The Jersey City Library, like libraries across the state, has been facing budget cuts in a measure to reduce New Jersey’s deficit.  Employees may be laid-off or given work furloughs – unpaid days off – and if the state does any more downsizing in its effort to slim down spending, some branches may even close.

A recent grassroots effort led by state librarians, library workers and supporters helped restore $4.2 million to the New Jersey budget for library programs. According to a post on savemynjlibrary.org, “delivery of materials between libraries will continue for this budget year.  Also, access to the EBSCO databases that many residents and students rely on will continue. In the proposed New Jersey FY 2011 Budget, state aid for municipalities is being reduced in a time when tax revenues are also decreasing.   Although municipal library funding is a small percentage of a municipality’s budget, typically less than 3%, many towns are feeling pressures with shrinking tax revenues and are looking to reduce library funding to find relief.”

With foresight and sound-decision making, Jersey City Library Director Priscilla Gardner started the Jersey City Library Foundation in 2004 as a safety-net to fund capital improvement projects for the library. The Foundation’s last fundraising campaign brought in $222,000 for a bookmobile and their latest project is the installation of security cameras in all Jersey City library branches for employee and patron safety. The money raised from the Marilyn Monroe memorabilia will help support this project.
 
“Along with Cynthia Harris of the New Jersey Room, we are working on determining the best way to market the material,” Gardner, who also serves as the Library Foundation’s executive director says. “In that way, the Lambiase Marilyn Monroe Collection is properly presented and his interest in helping the Jersey City Free Public Library is full executed.”

Cynthia Harris, manager of the New Jersey Room – a repository of papers and photographs documenting the history of Jersey City and all the towns in Hudson County – is curator of the Marilyn Monroe memorabilia, researching its value, which at this point is at the early stage.
 “I wouldn’t begin to guess on the value,” Harris says, “but anyone who’s a fan of Marilyn will find something to catch their heart. I’m intrigued by that life-sized statue of Marilyn in her white dress from ‘The Seven Year Itch.’ I think it’s very cool and some of the pictures are really nice. There’s enough variety that anybody who’s a fan will find something to tickle their fancy or something that will add to their collection.”
 
Lambiase’s Marilyn Monroe collection – 20 pieces in all — will be featured at the Library Foundation’s annual Fall fundraiser where guests will be able to bid on the items in a silent auction with all proceeds going to the capital improvements project.
 
And one can just imagine somewhere in the universe, where stars burn their brightest, Marilyn Monroe – the sexy, dazzling and bubbly-blonde who indeed had a brain – smiles that killer smile,  thrilled that her image will help nourish people’s minds and not just hold their coffee.

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Fans have waited a long time to buy a boxed set of Clint Eastwood’s early spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone. featuring Clint as the iconic loner with no name. The wait is over. The boxed set, officially titled Clint, available June 1, 2010, Eastwood in The Man With No Name Trilogy hits a bullseye.

This collection belongs in every home film library. Leone’s trilogy of lowbudget, high-impact films, set in the American West (but filmed in Spain and directed by an Italian), made Eastwood a major movie star with a following that forced Hollywood to sit up and take notice. Up until that time he was known only for his roles on TV, most notably as Rowdy Yates in the series, Rawhide.

I interviewed Eastwood before the Academy Awards in 2005 when he had been nominated for Best Director and Best Picture for Million Dollar.  I asked how important to his films was the music in each. “Very Baby important,” he told me, holding me with that famous Eastwood gaze that says, “Nothing matters right now except our conversation.” He went on to explain that he wrote the music himself. “I was very careful not to allow the music to overwhelm the visuals but to support them,” he said, adding, “I learned that from Ennio Morricone.”

When I recalled that Eastwood had made a name for himself with the Sergio Leone films, Eastwood brightened. “It was Morricone who wrote the music for the three spaghetti westerns,” Eastwood said. “If you’ve seen them you know the music.”

The first in the series, A Fistful of Dollars, hit U.S. movie houses in 1964. The stage was set for the former television actor to become an international sensation as the rough-hewn, silent Man with No Name.

The footloose renegade with a wacky sense of humor, a cheroot clenched in his teeth, and a squint that made villains squirm, caught the fancy of moviegoers and they became his fans for life. Those fans are now graybeards, and they’re still loyal. They, and anybody else who likes movies with Clint Eastwood, are in for a treat.

writer/director Akiro Kurosawa’s film, Yojimbo.” That cynical samurai tale, in the hands of Sergio Leone, gets a different setting, the American West. The tale, which maintains the inner stuff of legend and iconic characters, works on a visceral level.

The follow-up film, For a Few Dollars More, teams Eastwood with Lee, who played the villain opposite Gary Cooper in High Noon.

In Dollars, Leone’s classic tale of revenge, Van Cleef again plays the villain to perfection.

The third film, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, is set in the American Civil War where violence is a given. Added to that conflict is buried gold, and classic criminals in a conspiracy that involves double-crosses and trayals that play out in a tension-filled finale with enough gun fights to satisfy any action fan.

(Catalog # M121526)

● The Christopher Frayling Archives: A Fistful of Dollars

● Commentary by Film Historian Christopher Frayling

● A New Kind of Hero

● A Few Weeks in Spain: Clint Eastwood on the Experience of Making the Film ● Tre Voci: A Fistful of Dollars

● Not Ready for Primetime: Renowned Filmmaker Monte Hellman discusses the Television Broadcast ● The Network Prologue with Actor Harry Dean Stanton

● Location Comparisons: Then to Now ● 10 Radio Spots ● Double Bill Trailer ● Theatrical Trailer

(Catalog # M121528)

● The Christopher Frayling Archives: For A Few Dollars More

● Commentary by Film Historian Christopher Frayling

● A New Standard: Frayling on For A Few Dollars More

● Back for More: Clint Eastwood Remembers For A Few Dollars More

● Tre Voci: For A Few Dollars More

● For A Few Dollars More: The Original American Release Version

● Location Comparisons

● 12 Radio Spots

● Theatrical Trailer 1

● Theatrical Trailer 2

(Catalog # M121527)

● Commentary by Film Historian Richard Schickel

● Commentary by Film Historian Christopher Frayling

● Leone’s West

● The Leone Style

● The Man Who Lost the Civil War

● Reconstructing The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

● IL Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – Part One

● IL Maestro: Part Two

● Deleted Scenes

â—‹ Extended Tuco Torture Scene

â—‹ The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction

● Easter Egg #1 Uno, Due, Tre

● Easter Egg #2 Italian Lunch

● Easter Egg #3 New York Actor

● Easter Egg #4 Gun in Holster

● Theatrical Trailer

● French Trailer

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 Taylor Purzycki, Horace Mann and Marc Wright, School 14 students have had the chance to personally experience and perform Johnny Mercer’s music this week at Carnegie Hall. The Mercer concert is the latest event celebrating the late, great lyricist and composer.

     Conductor Steven Reineke of The New York Pops Orchestra led the concert with guest artists Ann Hampton Calloway, James T. Lane, N’ Kenge and the Camp Broadway Kids. The Camp Broadway Kids opened the show with Just too Marvelous For Words and also performed several of Mercer’s treasured compositions including Moon River, Dream, Accentuate the positive, and The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. All in all, what a terrific program!

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