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 The praise for the short film The Coin continues to roll in from all corners of the world.
This time it is from director Fabien Martorell’s home country of France. “Journaliste cinéma” Catherine Habib posted a note on her Facebook page on Friday (22nd Nov) with some brief thoughts on the short film starring Christopher Lloyd (Stacked), Kathryn and Jack Ryan Shepherd.
In the film Kathryn is the stressed and angry mother of a young boy. Lloyd plays a vagrant sitting on the pavement (sidewalk to our American cousins) outside a shop the mother drags her son into.
Titled “3 good reasons to see THE COIN by Fabien MARTORELL” it is… well, you get the gist. Short and sweet. Kathryn is not named but she is almost certainly included in the reference to “two legends of Hollywood”.
You can read the item in it’s original form on Facebook HERE. Below is a copy alongside an basic English translation done using Google Translate. Any corrections by Français speakers are welcome.
Thank you to Fabien for bringing another item to our attention.
Catherine Habib
3 bonnes raisons de voir THE COIN de Fabien MARTORELL
1) Pour son casting hors du commun, on a pas tous les jours l’occasion de voir réunis dans un seul court métrage 2 légendes du monde hollywoodien!
2) Pour l’humanité du personnage interprété par Christopher Lloyd, on en redemande!
3) Parce qu’en seulement quelques plans et mouvements de caméra – soit à peine 8 minutes 13-, le réalisateur plonge le spectateur dans un univers dramatique qui n’appartient qu’à lui! bravo!
Catherine Habib
3 good reasons to see THE COIN by Fabien MARTORELL
1) For his unusual casting, it is not every day you get the opportunity to see two legends of Hollywood in one short!
2) For the humanity of the character played by Christopher Lloyd, we want more!
3) Because in just a few shots and camera movements – a mere 8 minutes 13 – the director plunges the viewer into a dramatic world that belongs to him! Bravo!
 How time flies. It only seems like yesterday we brought you the news that Kathryn had joined the pilot of a potential new TV series Surgeon General. The US is starting its Thanksgiving holidays and for many of the rest us the slow, yet all too fast, countdown to Xmas begins (we’ll return to that idea next week). Yikes!
Why did I bring Surgeon General up for this return to nostalgia corner? Well, it is because of the woman on the right in the photo above (I had to crop it like that our you might not be looking at the face 😮 ). That lady is Kristen Shaw and she has worked on more of director Rod Lurie’s projects that Kathryn has. Rod directed the Surgeon General pilot and drafted in some of his old friends to work on the project. Kristen featured in a couple of behinds the scenes photos from the filming of Surgeon General, as brought to you by KM UK here and here.
But we’re going back a little further than April for this post. No, it’s October we’re heading for. October’s before April right? It is when the October in question was in 2000! It’s as far back as our little way back machine goes at the moment. I’m not Dr Who after all, despite what you might think 
October 5th, 2000, saw the premiere of the film The Contender starring Joan Allen (The Bourne Legacy), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Jeff Bridges (Iron Man), along with many others. Kathryn attended with uncharacteristically brown hair. Kristen had small role in The Contender, most notably in a scene with Kathryn that is one of the deleted scenes on the DVD release. You can read KM UK’s review of The Contender and the deleted scene in a post here on KM UK from almost exactly 3 years ago.
The Gallery has gained a new album containing 5 varied sized photos of Kathryn at the première of The Contender.
Many thanks to Alexia of Emilia Fox Online for her help on this one.
  
 Was it evolution or was it “intelligent design”? Schools and teachers being pilloried for explaining the science? America in 2013 or 1923? Some things don’t change over time.
Inherit The Wind is a play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. It is based on the actual 1923 trial of a school teacher charged with teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution to his class in contravention of state law. He did so at the request of one of the students. However, in the play the story is actually being used as a vehicle to discuss McCarthyism of the early 1950s. The play was first performed in 1955.
 There have been many revivals of the play since that then and it’s been made into a film four times. The most famous celluloid version was the first. Made in 1960 it starred Spencer Tracey (It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World), Gene Kelly (Singin’ In The Rain) and Harry Morgan (M*A*S*H). Our interest though, is in the most recent version committed to 35mm with an equally all-star cast.
Jack Lemmon (Some Like It Hot), George C. Scott (Dr Strangelove), Beau Bridges (The Fabulous Baker Boys), Tom Everett Scott (That Thing You Do!), Lane Smith (Louis & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman) and Piper Laurie (Twin Peaks) all bring their thespian talents to bear in a 1999 TV movie remake. And who is that playing Rachel Brown, the young woman caught in the middle as the daughter of the local preacher and girlfriend of the educator on trial? Why, can it be true? Mercy me, as I live and breath, if isn’t Ms. Kathryn Morris.
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The review by LA Firm Inc Magazine of the short film The Coin, brought to you by KM UK last week, seemed to start something off. Not only was the film’s director/writer/producer, Fabien Martorell (and actor/producer Will Kemp), kind enough to favourite and reTweet our Tweeted announcement of the post, but he also followed up with Tweets of quotes about the film.
One those that Fabien linked to was on the Brazilian film review website Revista Moviola (Movie Magazine ?). Brazil-born but England-resident Maysa Monção, who has worked in various sections of the entertainment industry in London in recent years, wrote the piece you can find on the Revista Moviola website HERE.
Below is a copy of the original text and an English translation by Google’s Translate feature, with a few tweaks by yours truly. Apologies for the poor English. If any Português speakers would like to offer improvements please let me know and I’ll edit accordingly.
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As promised last week here are the details of The Coin’s screening at the Underexposed Film Festival, York Country, South Carolina.
The Coin is being shown with ten other short films in a groups called “Narrative”. Fabien Martorell’s film is also one of the festival Director’s Choice.
The film festival starts this coming Thursday (14 November) and runs through to Saturday (16 November). Saving the best to (almost) last the “Narrative” set is to be screened on the Saturday between 7pm and 9pm, with The Coin the 3rd in a final set of six after the intermission. The venue for this, the second year of the festival, is the Community Performance Center on East Main Street, in the state capital Rock Hill. It is only $6 a ticket. The awards ceremony follows the “Block F” screening.
The Underexposed Film Festival should really considering sticking the word “International” in there somewhere because the event includes films from all over the globe. As well as the USA there are films from Serbia, Turkey, Australia, India, the UK, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Spain, Iran, France, Romania, and Austria.
There is quite a list of stars from big screen and television in the films too. Elijah Wood (Lord Of The Rings) and Alia Shawkat (Maeby Fünke in Arrested Development) star together in Setup, Punch. Christopher Lloyd (Spin City) features, along with fellow repeatee Elijah Wood, in a second film being shown called The Narrative of Victor Karloch. Amongst the others I recognise is TV drama Perception guest star Scott Wolf in Imagine (he played Rachael Leigh Cook’s character’s ex-husband).
Good luck to all those taking part in the festival.
If you are in Rock Hill on Saturday and make the screening please let us know your thoughts.
More details about the Underexposed Film Festival can be found on their website HERE.
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