Director Eli Green has joined Raucous Content for commercial and branded content representation in North America. Already at his new roost, Green has wrapped production on Southwest Airlines for GSD&M and Colgate out of Y&R. Among his many prior credits are Constellation Brands/Tom Gore Vineyards for M/H VCCP, San Francisco, and a Race Trac campaign for R/GA, Austin.
Green has been capturing larger-than-life characters since his formative years shooting award-winning portraits in rural Texas. What emerged was a distinctive passion for the language of ordinary heroes. It was natural, then, that he soon turned to filmmaking. Every performance, in Green’s eyes, is the opportunity to build upon that first pivotal image with a confluence of the real world and performance. Green uses intimate frames to highlight his cast, often likening it to the “portrait of a person.” He explained, “Directing, for me, is a record of bold characters who might be overlooked. If I can take an unexpected individual and tell their story, I walk away satisfied, feeling like I’ve found some kind of connective tissue for the audience.”
Green said he was drawn to Raucous by owners/EPs Phyllis Koenig and Steve Wi. The latter assessed, “Eli has a great eye. He’s an infectious talent who lets actors settle into their roles and be themselves.”
Prior to joining Raucous, Green was handled by production house A Common Thread. He now joins a Raucous directorial roster which includes Jon Barber, Kat Coiro, Keith Ehrlich, Luis Gerard, Adam Gunser, Chris Hooper, Paul Iannacchino, Plummer/Strauss, Vance Malone, Rob McElhenney, Matt Rainwaters, Matt Shakman, Alex Stapleton, and Daniel Strange.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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