Steven Shainberg News

Steven Shainberg News

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The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) announced the selection of five film projects to receive financial and creative support from its inaugural TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, supported by the Alfred P. ... Full Article

Steven Shainberg Diane Arbus was an American photographer of the late '60s who is considered by some to be one of the greatest artistes of the 20th century. ... Full Article

Movies that take liberties with well-known characters--real or imaginary--are always asking for trouble.So director Steven Shainberg and writer Erin Cressida Wilson, who dreamed up "Fur," should probably be suiting up in armor. ... Full Article

It had to happen, sooner or later: a bio-pic of Diane Arbus, photographer goddess of the alternate America, doyenne of the somber freakout, selfless voyager into the unorthodox. ... Full Article

"Fur has little interest in making the normal seem freakish; unlike Arbus, the movie benignly does the opposite," writes J Hoberman in the Voice . "The photographer suggested that the camera gave her permission to transgress. Kidman's choice of roles ... Full Article

Does the world really need another film festival?By various counts, there are 500 to 2,000 festivals all over the globe, spanning venues, themes and philosophies. ... Full Article

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ew.com2006-09-11
Fur (Nov. 10) So the good news is that this ''imaginary portrait'' of Diane Arbus doesn't cough up the typical "brilliant hero fights childhood demons and then triumphs/self-destructs" biopic hairball. Maybe because it's not really a biopic at all, but ... Full Article

Fur (2006)
ew.com2006-03-10
It's been a while since we saw a truly boggling sophomore slump, one of those infamous second-act follies, like Steven Soderbergh's Kafka , made by a director blinded with ego and overreach. ... Full Article

Up to this point, 39-year-old actor Ty Burrell has had one thing over his Fur costars Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. We had no idea who the hell he was. ... Full Article

Film Row Cinema The South Loop's last two commercial movie venues-the Fine Arts, on Michigan near the Auditorium Building, and Burnham Plaza, on Wabash north of Ninth Street-bit the dust in 2000 and 2005 respectively. ... Full Article

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