Alkemy X has added international director Bernie Roux to its roster for representation on the East Coast and in the Midwest. Roux won a Bronze Lion earlier this year at the 2015 Cannes Advertising Festival for his breakthrough Samsonite campaign. Roux, who’s currently the executive creative director at Prague-based production company Eallin, has 20-plus years experience in the film and animation industry. He has shot more than 150 television commercials, idents and PSAs. Roux joins an Alkemy X directorial lineup which includes Robert Adamo, James Bartolomeo, Glenn Holsten, Kris Magyarits, Rob Markopoulos, John Romeo, Bex Schwartz and Scott Whitham. Alkemy X maintains offices in NY and Philadelphia….
Philippe Bernard has been appointed as chairman and CEO of Globecast, succeeding Olivier Barberot. Bernard joins Globecast from the Orange Group, where has served as EVP of quality, customer experience and sales since July 2013. Prior to that he was CEO of Transpac, He then came aboard Orange Group as VP of Orange Business Solutions, based in the UK, and went on to take over the European sales and customer relations division. Bernard will drive Globecast’s strategy to position the company as a fully global and integrated media solutions provider, complementing its mainstay business as an international independent teleport operator and satellite services provider….
Review: Director John Crowley’s “We Live In Time”
It's not hard to spend a few hours watching Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield fall and be in love. In "We Live In Time," filmmaker John Crowley puts the audience up close and personal with this photogenic British couple through the highs and lows of a relationships in their 30s.
Everyone starts to think about the idea of time, and not having enough of it to do everything they want, at some point. But it seems to hit a lot of us very acutely in that tricky, lovely third decade. There's that cruel biological clock, of course, but also careers and homes and families getting older. Throw a cancer diagnosis in there and that timer gets ever more aggressive.
While we, and Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Pugh), do indeed live in time, as we're constantly reminded in big and small ways — clocks and stopwatches are ever-present, literally and metaphorically — the movie hovers above it. The storytelling jumps back and forth through time like a scattershot memory as we piece together these lives that intersect in an elaborate, mystical and darkly comedic way: Almut runs into Tobias with her car. Their first chat is in a hospital hallway, with those glaring fluorescent lights and him bruised and cut all over. But he's so struck by this beautiful woman in front of him, he barely seems to care.
I suppose this could be considered a Lubitschian "meet-cute" even if it knowingly pushes the boundaries of our understanding of that romance trope. Before the hit, Tobias was in a hotel, attempting to sign divorce papers and his pens were out of ink and pencils kept breaking. In a fit of near-mania he leaves, wearing only his bathrobe, to go to a corner store and buy more. Walking back, he drops something in the street and bang: A new relationship is born. It's the... Read More