Lake of fire, the film by tony kaye, is not just an extraordinary documentary. Kaye has made a documentary that vividly delineates how religiousfundamentalist terrorists take. The movie i saw on amazon prime is the dvd i wanted to purchase. The older i get, the more i see how to complete things. Director tony kaye has loudly disowned his film american history x, but he certainly hasnt disowned the publicity hes attracted to it. Lake of fire the films title comes from one persons description of what. Earl pike, a criminal, tries to get his family s illegal gun collection to a safe haven. Kaye, who had cut his chops directing music videos and art installations in the 1990s, made the jump to directing feature films with. When new line sent me the script of american history x 1998, about the relationship between a neonazi and his impressionable kid brother, it was deeply flawed. Lake of fire is monumental, exhausting, and appropriately hard to watch. I had never been in a lesbian space that was full before, weinraub said. In 1937, he signed with new yorkbased educational pictures for a series of tworeel comedies. Tony kaye has a lot to say in detachment and all the wrong tools to say it. Watch the detachment trailer with director tony kaye.
Feb 21, 2008 this years best documentary spirit nominees feel like the shouldacouldabeen oscars, featuring such acclaimed lowboxoffice films as dan klores crazy love, tony kayes lake of fire and. The story was also dramatised in the november 2009 bbc radio 4 play the tony kay scandal by michael mclean, which included excerpts from a 2009 interview with kay. He was a cofounding member, and helped craft the bands breakthrough release the yes album, then returned for its platinum 1980s era. Tony kaye is a british director of films, music videos, advertisements, and documentaries. Its easy to see how kaye could get lost in an issue this morally, legally, and politically complex, but hes somehow found his way through to. Story follows the divergent agendas of criminals, cops and lawyers as they collide over a shipment of illegal firearms and a double homicide. Tony kayes dissection of the us school system that sums up how flawed the film is.
He usually played a manic, darkhaired, fasttalking russian in these lowbudget shorts, opposite young hopefuls june allyson and. Here are 15 things about the making of the controversial film that might surprise you. He directed edward norton to an academy award nomination for american history x. Director tony kaye turned heads with his violent breakthrough american history x and courted controversy when he washed his hands of it in response to reported editing room meddling by edward norton. It took nearly a decade to complete his next feature, the acclaimed.
But when he started pulling stunts in hollywood the. Kaye disowned the final cut of the film and unsuccessfully attempted to have his name removed from the credits. The best documentaries of all time include controversial classics by michael moore and brilliant concert films by jonathan demme and martin scorsese. See complete list of inproduction titles on imdbpro. Interviews with leading film and tv creators about their process and craft. For much of his career, tony kaye was mostly known as the man that rick wakeman replaced in yes in 1971, just in time to become a superstar keyboard player rivaling keith emerson.
Whether you support choice or the prolife movement. Kaye spent 15 years of his life compiling, analyzing and. The documentaries here are shown in no particular order. Spirit awards honor lowerprofile filmmakers hollywood reporter. Best known for american history x, filmmaker tony kaye has been working on lake. Kaye has completed his second feature film, black water transit 2010 starring laurence fishburne, karl urban, evan ross, brittany snow and stephen dorff. Tony kaye born 8 july 1952 is a british director of films, music videos, advertisements, and. If you want a snapshot of the strange labyrinth in which kayes film. Director tony kaye ready for comeback with stranger than. Jul 06, 2012 nearly 15 years after american history x made him a hollywood pariah, tony kaye has returned to feature films with the starstudded detachment. Lake of fire, his twoandahalfhour documentary on abortion, may sound like a cinematic root canal, but the film is both compelling and troubling, bracing and elegiac. Born into a musical family, kaye was classically trained and intended to become a concert pianist before he developed an interest in jazz and contemporary rock and pop music.
Tony kaye once called himself the greatest english director since hitchcock. Apr 04, 2011 tony kaye film and kings of leon documentary added to tribeca lineup. Filmmaker tony kaye, best known for american history x, has been working on. A filmmaker and a rock group who have never been shy about expressing themselves will be represented in new offerings at the tribeca film festival, the festivals organizers announced on monday. Shot in luminous black and white, which is in fact an endless palette of grays, the film has the perfect aesthetic for a subject filmmaker tony kaye, best known for.
American history x and tony kaye, hollywood maverick. The following does not purport to contain the 25 most essential, or objectively the best docs, these are merely the films that are come to mind when the question is posed, hey, what are the 25 greatest documentaries of all time again. The purpose of this resource is to provide you with an annotated listing of documentary films for teaching psychology courses. Shakedown is a mustsee documentary now streaming on.
American history x director tony kaye looks to make a comeback with new selffinanced film, stranger than the wheel. Nearly 15 years after american history x made him a hollywood pariah, tony kaye has returned to feature films with the starstudded detachment. He has made several wellknown music videos, including the video for runaway train by soul asylum, which won a grammy award, dani california by red hot chili peppers, what god wants by roger waters, and help me and gods gonna cut you down by johnny cash. Jun 10, 2007 tony kaye once called himself the greatest english director since hitchcock. Detachment adrien brody interview tony kaye movie 2012. Britishborn filmmaker tony kaye, a former advertising director, spoke to utne reader about the film and what advertising has to do with the abortion debate. Jun 17, 2016 american history x director tony kaye looks to make a comeback with new selffinanced film. Documentary film is a powerful medium for psychology course instruction, providing examples of concepts, issues, and theoretical principles, embedded in the.
A rough cut was reportedly screened at the 2009 cannes film festival but the film was never released to cinemas. The film was shortlisted for an oscar, nominated for greatest documentary film on the unbiased spirit honours, the chicago film. Made over a 15year span from 1990 to 2005, kayes twoandahalfhour documentary strives not for comprehensiveness but for expansiveness, its intent being to broaden the fiercely polarizing conversation about abortion by addressing its myriad components headon. Whether you support choice or the prolife movement you will be outraged and deeply stirred. Lake of fire film lake of fire is a 2006 documentary film directed by tony kaye that graphically depicts abortion in the united states. Though several intellectuals are interviewed for the film, it presses no concrete opinion and instead invites the viewer to make their own decision on how they stand admist years of controversy. An abortion protester from tony kayes film lake of fire. His berserko series of ads in variety accusing new line and star edward norton of ruining the film may have destroyed his career, but it seems to have attracted a great deal of attention to the film. Using psychedelia as a starting point, the quartet aimed for a big electric sound that would also have room for elegant harmonies and virtuoso technique. Tony kay is portrayed by jason isaacs in the 1997 tv film the fix, directed by paul greengrass, which tells the story of the scandal which ended his career. The movie was shortlisted for the academy award for best documentary feature though it did not win a. Did you know his second film, the documentary lake of fire, took him 16 years to complete and was nominated for best documentary film at the independent spirit awards. Oct 03, 2007 t he title of tony kayes epic abortion documentary lake of fire is first seenupside down, in a credits sequence heavy on closeups of burning candles.
The first thing you should know about the documentary lake of fire an. When american history x was finally released in 1998, kaye s stylish combination of blackandwhite and color photography, and gritty, handheld immediacy, as well as norton s performance, earned critical kudos and norton an oscar nod, but kaye was not appeased. Why hes making his comeback with stranger than the. Like the detectives and journalists of david fincher s zodiac, tony kaye s longgestating lake of fire is the work of a man obsessed. Kayes second feature, a documentary known as lake of fireplace, was about the abortion issue in america.
Tony kaye, the man who brough us the inside view of racism in american history x, is an uncompromising filmmaker who does not do things by halves. Generally, this ordinary drug story in the original version of american history x plays a big role in the plot, whereas the neonazitopic steps behind. It is due to tony kaye and his changes that the movie concentrates only on the racist setting and the resulting conflicts and fully shows its strengths. Lake of fire is graphic documentary on abortion directed by tony kaye american history x, detachment. Tony kaye biography, movie highlights and photos allmovie.
Director tony kaye ready for comeback with stranger than the. Shakedown is a mustsee documentary now streaming on pornhub. Detachment, a new feature from tony kaye, the director of american history x, will make its debut as part of the festivals narrative program. Tony kaye film and kings of leon documentary added to tribeca. Jun 25, 2018 its an oddity that deserves to be paired with richard stanleys documentary.
Tony kaye body measurments, height, weight and age details. While most antiabortion protests were disruptive but not violent. Find tony kaye movies, filmography, bio, co stars, photos, news and tweets. Dec 25, 2007 10 movies in 2007 that deserved more attention by jim ridley.
Even now, he works with fellow yes alum billy sherwood in a group called circa. His second film, the documentary lake of fire, took him 16 years to complete and was nominated for best documentary film at the independent spirit awards. I first watched this on amazon prime the documentary i saw on amazon. A surrealist drama about the decline of the education system in american high schools. While several critics called lake of fire the best documentary of 2007, few people saw it in theaters. Nov 08, 2012 yes has been a part of tony kayes life, off and on, since the late 1960s. The film was shortlisted for an oscar, nominated for greatest documentary film on the unbiased spirit honours, the chicago film critics association honours, and the satellite television honours. Lake of fire seventeen years in the making, tony kayes abortionissue documentary is shot in black and white to demonstrate, he says, that the controversy really is about shades of gray. He has made several wellknown music videos, including the video for runaway train by soul asylum, which won a grammy award, dani california by red hot chili peppers, what god wants by roger waters, and help me and god s gonna cut you down by johnny cash. American history x director tony kaye says hes still in.
Tony kayes 2002 film has largely been unseen due to some issues with tony kaye suing the dga over the mess with american history x. Earl pike, a criminal, tries to get his familys illegal gun collection to a safe haven. Ive never seen anything so complex, complete and emotionally wrenching as this epic work. Tony kayes landmark abortion doc made a crucial commercial miscalculation. Tony kaye is clearly prochoice, or rather, the movie is clearly prochoice, but it pretends to give both sides equal time to state their case. Its the first of many filmmaking choices that seem affected, but which ultimately reflect the film s interest in the relationship between images and rhetoric, its awe of moral fervor, and most of all, its openness to conflicting. August 2017 when tony ends up homeless after losing his job as a waiter in san diego, he is.
His feature film debut was american history x 1998, a drama about racism starring edward norton and edward furlong. Danny kaye made his film debut in a 1935 comedy short moon over manhattan. Complete wiki biography of tony kaye, which contains net worth and salary earnings in 2020. A documentary about tony kayes film american history x. They agreed to fund and produce his documentary humpty dumpty about the fall out from american history x and his blacklisting from hollywood. In the early 90s, kaye was a popular director of commercials and music videos he won a. Tony kaye, best known for his dramatic feature american history x, has spent the last fifteen years working on what will likely become the definitive documentary on the volatile abortion debate in the united states. Tony kaye film and kings of leon documentary added to.
As the advancement of technology continues to replace the need for human labor, american history x director tony kaye is undertaking a new and maybe controversial step in. Best known for american history x, filmmaker tony kaye has been working. Kayes third feature film was a crime drama titled black water transit starring laurence fishburne, karl urban, evan ross, brittany snow, and stephen dorff. Tony kaye director life, age, zodiac birthday celebs. Terry, one of the nations most recognized leaders in the prolife movement, says. Did you know his second film, the documentary lake of fire, took him 16 years to complete and was nominated for best documentary film at the independent spirit awards fact he directed edward norton to an academy award nomination for american history x see also tony kayes net worth as of 2020 birthday. Dec 02, 2015 new film director tony kayes battle with new line cinema over the final cut of the film has become of those infamous hollywood stories. Its also onesided in a timid, halfassed kind of way. In todays film news roundup, tony kaye is attached to a crime drama, brandon sklenar gets a role in indigo valley, orion classics buys claras ghost, and romcom paper friends. Sep 08, 2011 tribeca film has picked up distribution rights to tony kayes dramatic movie, detachment, starring adrien brody, christina hendricks, james caan, marcia gay harden, lucy liu, blythe danner, tim blake nelson, bryan cranston, and william petersen.
Norton allegedly reedited ahx to lengthen his screen time and the studio changed the ending against kayes wishes. Her crush humiliated her, so she got fullbody plastic surgery clip from 200 pounds beauty. Mar 09, 2012 director tony kayes american history x longawaited film detachment stars academy awardr winner adrien brody as henry barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional. Directed by keith fulton and louis pepe, this documentary tells the story of. Kaye is a six time grammy nominated music video director. Tony kaye s time in yes was a formative period for musician and group alike. Ive never seen anything so complex, complete and emotionally wrenching as. This brief selfreflection comes early in tony kayes documentary on the u. It took nearly a decade to complete his next feature, the acclaimed abortion documentary lake. It features noam chomsky, peter singer, alan dershowitz, nat hentoff, randall terry and norma mccorvey, among others. Kayes second feature, a documentary called lake of fire, was about the abortion debate in the united states. It was also a critical junction point, as steve howe replaced late guitarist peter banks, while fellow cofounder tony kaye took a final bow. He has made several wellknown music videos, including the video for runaway train by soul asylum, which won a grammy award, dani california by red hot chili peppers.
The yes album, released this week in 1971, was yes bigbang moment, a project where the full scope of their looming genius began to take shape. Lake of fire made the academy of motion pictures, arts and sciences shortlist for best documentary film. Part of kayes film follows paul hill, john salvi, michael griffin and eric rudolph, who augment their antiabortion speechmaking with acts of violence that include clinic bombings and the murder of doctors. Eventually they have to cancel the project because not even vice can handle the mans absurd behavior.
Filmmaker tony kaye, best known for american history x, has been working on lake of fire for the past fifteen years and has made a film that is unquestionably the definitive work on the subject of abortion. The film was part of my estate, so it was taken away from me, and i had to buy it back. The eccentric british director was a hot commercial and music video helmer who made his feature debut with 1998s acclaimed american history x, but despite the film s acclaim, kaye. Tony kaye celebrity profile check out the latest tony kaye photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Fact he directed edward norton to an academy award nomination for american history x. Its a shrill and didactic melodrama about the pratfalls of the education system, rendered in shockingly amateur. More serious fans of yes knew him somewhat better, as the inspired if not overly showy keyboard virtuoso on what is usually regarded as the first fully realized yes lp, the yes album. Dershowitz brings to it what you might expect, a partly personal, partly showy pro. Filmmaker tony kaye casts robot as lead actor in next. Losing it tony kaye falls out with hollywood film the. The movie was shortlisted for an oscar, nominated for best documentary film at the independent spirit awards, the chicago film critics association awards, and the satellite awards. Kaye is currently in preproduction on the film detachment 2011.
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