Jaqueline Bisset, the iconic British actress and star of the new drama Loren & Rose, discussed her experiences while making the film in an exclusive uInterview.
Loren & Rose follows the heartbreaking relationship of a young filmmaker, played by Kelly Blatz, and a famed actress, played by Bisset. When asked what drew her to the project, Bisset said that she immediately fell in love with her character.
“I found the role because of my friendship with a young filmmaker named Christopher Munch, with whom I did a movie called The Sleepy Time Gal and who was friends with Russell Brown, who directed Loren & Rose,” she explained.
“I wanted to play [Rose]. I wanted the uneven parts. I wanted the faults of this person… I was very excited to play this woman and I felt sorry for her. She had some rough times and I can really relate to some of it,...
Loren & Rose follows the heartbreaking relationship of a young filmmaker, played by Kelly Blatz, and a famed actress, played by Bisset. When asked what drew her to the project, Bisset said that she immediately fell in love with her character.
“I found the role because of my friendship with a young filmmaker named Christopher Munch, with whom I did a movie called The Sleepy Time Gal and who was friends with Russell Brown, who directed Loren & Rose,” she explained.
“I wanted to play [Rose]. I wanted the uneven parts. I wanted the faults of this person… I was very excited to play this woman and I felt sorry for her. She had some rough times and I can really relate to some of it,...
- 7/26/2023
- by Ava Lombardi
- Uinterview
There’s no doubt that Jacqueline Bisset is a screen icon, but do we really need yet another meta commentary on the pitfalls of Hollywood with a lauded star as its only anchor? Bisset stars in “Loren and Rose,” written and directed by Russell Brown, and hitting select theaters after an extended tour of regional American film festivals. The drama follows aging starlet Rose (Bisset) who is looking to revive her career and takes multiple meetings with up-and-coming filmmaker Loren (Kelly Blatz) as he is casting his big break feature.
Within a few minutes of extreme exposition, Loren narrates that Rose’s most iconic role was playing a white nun who falls in love with a Black priest. Yet, Rose is best known to the public for playing the lead in pulpy sci-fi franchise “Mega Gators Mom.” Rose’s celebrity status, no matter which film of hers you love best,...
Within a few minutes of extreme exposition, Loren narrates that Rose’s most iconic role was playing a white nun who falls in love with a Black priest. Yet, Rose is best known to the public for playing the lead in pulpy sci-fi franchise “Mega Gators Mom.” Rose’s celebrity status, no matter which film of hers you love best,...
- 6/21/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Jacqueline Bisset is an aging actress playing an aging actress in the feature “Loren and Rose,” which takes place almost entirely in a restaurant: her character meets with a young director (played by Kelly Blatz) who wants her for his next film. At 78, Bisset understands that festivals are necessary to promote films, even if she’s not here in New York, but back home in California. She is candid about the marketing of a film, acting and even an embarrassing look back at one of her biggest hits. No, it doesn’t involve a wet t-shirt or a car chase in the streets of San Francisco. The “silly girl” was a stewardess in love with Dean Martin. More on that in a moment. We begin with the conceit of “Loren and Rose”: acting as a reflection of real life.
Gd: In the film your character describes cinema as a “mirror.
Gd: In the film your character describes cinema as a “mirror.
- 6/20/2023
- by Bill McCuddy
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Emmy nominees Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt) and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings franchise) are set to star alongside Dermot Mulroney in Last Dollar, the 1880s-set Western inspired by European cinema that marks the feature directorial debut of William Shockley.
The film from Thunderbird Pictures is billed as a story of love and vengeance between a young man, the survivor of a horrific tragedy who has to choose between the old ways and the new, and a young woman who is confronted with the crushing cost of her dreams to her soul. It’s set against a background of a rapidly transitioning society, where power rules, mores are being flipped on their head, and reality itself comes into question.
Bisset plays Vivian Villeré, the mercurial Madame and owner of the Purgatory Saloon, a woman who will stop at nothing to protect what is hers. Monaghan is set for the role of Vivian’s longtime,...
The film from Thunderbird Pictures is billed as a story of love and vengeance between a young man, the survivor of a horrific tragedy who has to choose between the old ways and the new, and a young woman who is confronted with the crushing cost of her dreams to her soul. It’s set against a background of a rapidly transitioning society, where power rules, mores are being flipped on their head, and reality itself comes into question.
Bisset plays Vivian Villeré, the mercurial Madame and owner of the Purgatory Saloon, a woman who will stop at nothing to protect what is hers. Monaghan is set for the role of Vivian’s longtime,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Golden Globe-winning actress Jacqueline Bisset (Dancing on the Edge) and Kelly Blatz (Fear the Walking Dead) will star as the title characters in Loren and Rose, an indie film written and directed by Russell Brown. The story centers on a promising filmmaker and an iconic actress who forms a special bond over a series of lunches at the same otherworldly restaurant — only to face an untimely illness which threatens to tear them apart. Filming currently underway in Los Angeles. Valeria Lopez is producing for Wise Lars LLC. Bisset is repped by Kimberly Hines of Framework Entertainment, while Blatz is with Luber Roklin Entertainment and Innovative Artists.
Matt Cook from the CBS comedy Man With A Plan is set to lead the indie comedy, Film Fest. Marshall Cook will direct the film, which he co-wrote with Paul Alan Cope. It follows struggling filmmaker, Logan Clark...
Matt Cook from the CBS comedy Man With A Plan is set to lead the indie comedy, Film Fest. Marshall Cook will direct the film, which he co-wrote with Paul Alan Cope. It follows struggling filmmaker, Logan Clark...
- 5/17/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
The Unrestricted View Film Festival just announced their award winners for their exciting 2017 edition. The festival is run by filmmakers and celebrates the very best in indie and encourages all aspects of independent film making. This year's fantastic line-up included new work from established and fresh filmmaking talent. Highlights included Untitled by Chris Loizou, The Bench by Mary Mullan, Red by Branko Tomovic, Mile End by Graham Higgins, 6 Love Stories by Michael Dunaway, Search Engines by Russell Brown, Northern Lights by Nick Connor and many other fantastic gems. Here is the list of this year's award nominees: Best Feature Untitled (A Film) - Award Winner Mile End Dead Certain What Waits in the Red Best Foreign Feature Bookends - Award Winner Search Engines White Night Public Intimacy Best Short Mia - Award Winner Latent Boris in the Forest Ken &...
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- 5/1/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The Unrestricted View Film Festival is back for it's 2nd year. The festival is run by filmmakers and celebrates the very best in indie and encourages all aspects of independent film making. This year's fantastic line-up includes new work from established and fresh filmmaking talent. Look out for Untitled by Chris Loizou, The Bench by Mary Mullan, Red by Branko Tomovic, Mile End by Graham Higgins, 6 Love Stories by Michael Dunaway, Search Engines by Russell Brown, Northern Lights by Nick Connor and many other fantastic gems. Here is the list of this year's award nominees: Best Feature Untitled (A Film) Mile End Dead Certain What Waits in the Red Best Foreign Feature Bookends Search Engines White Night Public Intimacy Best Short Mia Latent Boris in the Forest Ken & Carol Lose the Plot Connie Goalie Padlock Best Foreign...
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- 4/28/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The Unrestricted View Film Festival is back for it's 2nd year. The festival is run by filmmakers and aims to celebrate the very best in indie and encourage all aspects of independent film making. This edition will run from April 24th-30th in London and the fantastic line-up includes new work from established and fresh filmmaking talent. Look out for Untitled by Chris Loizou, The Bench by Mary Mullan, Red by Branko Tomovic, Mile End by Graham Higgins, 6 Love Stories by Michael Dunaway, Search Engines by Russell Brown, Northern Lights by Nick Connor and many other fantastic gems. You can find the complete program on their freshly launched website: http://www.uvff.co.uk/unrestricted-view-film-festival...
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- 4/6/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Wellington, Sep 18: Tui Beer marketing campaign's video, which shows a group of guys playing a prank on their friend by rigging up all the water taps in his house to dispense cold beer, has generated more than one million hits on Youtube.
The seven-minute video, which shows Auckland builder Sean Brown and his friends, lying in wait for his brother, Russell Brown, to drive off, then crawl beneath his house and connect all the taps to the beer kegs, has gone viral and reports about it have been appearing on overseas news websites, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The pranksters set up 14 cameras throughout the house and move out to a next-door.
The seven-minute video, which shows Auckland builder Sean Brown and his friends, lying in wait for his brother, Russell Brown, to drive off, then crawl beneath his house and connect all the taps to the beer kegs, has gone viral and reports about it have been appearing on overseas news websites, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The pranksters set up 14 cameras throughout the house and move out to a next-door.
- 9/18/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Branding agency, Landor Associates has appointed Ashley Webster to the role of marketing manager and Russell Brown as finance director.
The announcement:
Sydney (3 October, 2012) – Strategic brand consulting and design firm, Landor Associates, has today announced two additional appointments as the company continues to grow its service offering in Sydney.
Following a number of new client wins and continued growth to its existing portfolio, Landor has expanded its team with the appointment of a Marketing Manager and Finance Director.
Ashley Webster has taken on the newly created role of Marketing Manager, with international experience in multicultural marketing, brand strategy and design, fashion and interior design.
With previous experience working for global publisher, Conde Nast, in New York, where she assisted on the production of Women’s Wear Daily and W Magazine, Ashley joined Acp Magazines upon arrival in Sydney, before signing on as Sales & Marketing Manager for e2.
Ashley’s notable...
The announcement:
Sydney (3 October, 2012) – Strategic brand consulting and design firm, Landor Associates, has today announced two additional appointments as the company continues to grow its service offering in Sydney.
Following a number of new client wins and continued growth to its existing portfolio, Landor has expanded its team with the appointment of a Marketing Manager and Finance Director.
Ashley Webster has taken on the newly created role of Marketing Manager, with international experience in multicultural marketing, brand strategy and design, fashion and interior design.
With previous experience working for global publisher, Conde Nast, in New York, where she assisted on the production of Women’s Wear Daily and W Magazine, Ashley joined Acp Magazines upon arrival in Sydney, before signing on as Sales & Marketing Manager for e2.
Ashley’s notable...
- 10/4/2012
- by Georgina Pearson
- Encore Magazine
I can't remember a time I went to the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) press launch and looked over the list of films and saw so many I was interested in seeing. The claim to fame for over the years is to call it the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States. This is a fact I've often taken issue with as I don't equate quantity with quality. Granted, there has been a large number of quality features to play the fest over the years, including Golden Space Needle (Best Film) winners such as Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), My Life as a Dog (1987), Trainspotting (1996), Run Lola Run (1999), Whale Rider (2003) and even recent Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius's Oss 117: Nest of Spies in 2006. That said, looking over this year's crop of films I see a lot of films I will be doing my absolute best to see.
- 4/27/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Indomitable Entertainment, the production company behind this summer's family film "Soul Surfer," has hired former Marvel VP Russell Brown to head their new branding division. Former Artisan Entertainment exec Erin Austin has been named Indomitable's new COO. Mathew Guliner, who formerly worked in development for Sony Pictures, will now do the same for Indomitable. "We view branded entertainment as a key tool for Indomitable Entertainment in the financing and marketing ...
- 9/15/2011
- Indiewire
Complex Magazine rounds up their 50 favorite Photoshop moments in honor of the software's 20th birthday.
Photoshop turns 20 this year, and in honor of 20 years of making the impossible possible--or at least easier--Complex Magazine has teamed up with Brooklyn design studio Chips to gather their 50 favorite moments in Photoshop history. They're hilarious, and hilariously true.
All the memes are here, from the Montauk Monster to Nicolas Cage. Cory Arcangel's gradients make an appearance. So does Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis. On a more serious note, they include Brian Walski's infamously manipulated Iraq war photo for the L.A. Times and Iran's faked missile launch. But it's Complex, after all, so the most screen time goes to awesomely bad mixtape album covers, most by the mad geniuses of Pen and Pixel Graphics, who rose to fame on the '90s Houston rap scene. It only speaks to the program's power that it...
Photoshop turns 20 this year, and in honor of 20 years of making the impossible possible--or at least easier--Complex Magazine has teamed up with Brooklyn design studio Chips to gather their 50 favorite moments in Photoshop history. They're hilarious, and hilariously true.
All the memes are here, from the Montauk Monster to Nicolas Cage. Cory Arcangel's gradients make an appearance. So does Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis. On a more serious note, they include Brian Walski's infamously manipulated Iraq war photo for the L.A. Times and Iran's faked missile launch. But it's Complex, after all, so the most screen time goes to awesomely bad mixtape album covers, most by the mad geniuses of Pen and Pixel Graphics, who rose to fame on the '90s Houston rap scene. It only speaks to the program's power that it...
- 3/12/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
This week, contrasting approaches to filmmaking bring about balance and equilibrium. Experimentalism (Sally Potter's "Rage" and Michael Almereyda's "Paradise") collides head on with tried and tested formulas (the Clive Owen starrer "The Boys Are Back" and a remake of "Fame").
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"Blind Date"
Stanley Tucci adapts and stars in the second remake from the canon of slain Dutch director Theo Van Gogh, the first being Steve Buscemi's 2007 "Interview." A whimsical psychological tussle between a husband and wife who play games to patch up their marriage, the story hones in on the attempted romantic rediscovery between long-married Don (Tucci) and Jenna (Patricia Clarkson).
Opens in New York.
"The Blue Tooth Virgin"
Writer/director Russell Brown's comedy stays true to the adage "write what you know," as a miserably bad screenplay threatens to...
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"Blind Date"
Stanley Tucci adapts and stars in the second remake from the canon of slain Dutch director Theo Van Gogh, the first being Steve Buscemi's 2007 "Interview." A whimsical psychological tussle between a husband and wife who play games to patch up their marriage, the story hones in on the attempted romantic rediscovery between long-married Don (Tucci) and Jenna (Patricia Clarkson).
Opens in New York.
"The Blue Tooth Virgin"
Writer/director Russell Brown's comedy stays true to the adage "write what you know," as a miserably bad screenplay threatens to...
- 9/21/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Indie distributors Regent Releasing and Film Movement have snagged two film fest faves.
Regent has acquired worldwide rights to Russell Brown's sophomore feature "The Blue Tooth Virgin." Austin Peck, Bryce Johnson, Tom Gilroy and Karen Black star in the story of a rift between a screenwriter and his close magazine editor friend. "Virgin," which won the special jury award at this year's Seattle International Film Fest, will hit theaters in early 2009.
Film Movement nabbed North American rights to Fernando Eimbcke's Mexican dramedy "Lake Tahoe." The Spanish-language tale of a teen and the strange inhabitants of his small town picked up the Fipresci Award and the Alfred Bauer Prize at this January's Berlin International Film Festival. It will be released in U.S. theaters next year.
Regent's Mark Reinhart negotiated the "Virgin" deal with Eastgate Pictures' Ronna Wallace. Film Movement's Adley Gartenstein negotiated the "Tahoe" deal with Funny Balloons' Peter Dunner.
Regent has acquired worldwide rights to Russell Brown's sophomore feature "The Blue Tooth Virgin." Austin Peck, Bryce Johnson, Tom Gilroy and Karen Black star in the story of a rift between a screenwriter and his close magazine editor friend. "Virgin," which won the special jury award at this year's Seattle International Film Fest, will hit theaters in early 2009.
Film Movement nabbed North American rights to Fernando Eimbcke's Mexican dramedy "Lake Tahoe." The Spanish-language tale of a teen and the strange inhabitants of his small town picked up the Fipresci Award and the Alfred Bauer Prize at this January's Berlin International Film Festival. It will be released in U.S. theaters next year.
Regent's Mark Reinhart negotiated the "Virgin" deal with Eastgate Pictures' Ronna Wallace. Film Movement's Adley Gartenstein negotiated the "Tahoe" deal with Funny Balloons' Peter Dunner.
- 10/29/2008
- by By Leslie Simmons and Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
She's (almost) back! A year after her embarrassing performance at the Video Music Awards , Britney Spears returned to the MTV stage this week to tape a promotional video for this year's ceremony. "Britney looked really good," says a source. "It was improvisational questions and answers with [host] Russell Brand just like [other promo guest stars] LL Cool J and Pete Wentz did. Russell joked about there being sexual tension, and Britney shot back, 'I don't feel the tension'. The other joke was about no one knowing who Russell was so she called him by the wrong name. LL called him Russell Bland and Britney called him Russell Brown.
- 8/8/2008
- by Mary Margaret
- PEOPLE.com
Now is time for Here! to win 'Race' rights
Here! Films, the theatrical distribution and worldwide sales division of here! Networks, has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the indie Race You to the Bottom. The film, which was written and directed by Russell Brown and stars Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Cole Williams (North Country), will be released theatrically in early 2007 in select U.S. cities via here! sister company Regent Releasing. Set in modern-day California, Bottom follows Nathan (Williams) and Maggie (Benson) and their complicated affair while traveling through Napa's wine country.
- 6/7/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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