#jon foy

[haverwood]

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Jon Foy USA, 2011 ★★★

[gpfoblog]

#ThrowbackThursday Filmmaker’s Spotlight: Jon Foy

Early 2012, we featured Jon Foy’s amazing work on our film.org Filmmaker’s Spotlight for his documentary Resurrect Dead.  Since our feature, you can view Resurrect Dead as its available on DVD, iTunes, & VOD, as well as the EPIX Movie Channel and has be named a New York Times Critic's Pick and Roger Ebert: #5 pick, best documentary 2011!  Our vintage feature content below:

Jon Foy - Resurrect Dead - In Jon Foy’s feature-length documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past, he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.

Foy is a self-taught, multi-disciplined filmmaker who specializes in editing and composing. His debut documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles won him the 2011 Sundance Directing Award.

Learn more here: http://www.resurrectdead.com/

[rochstil]

This may not mean anything to anyone else I know but I randomly walked past a Toynbee Tile in a crosswalk today and felt really great about it. I know lots of the originals were destroyed due to the whole "it's vandalism" thing so it may have been a copy

but still - day made.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1787791/

[thisistrivial]

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011)

[watchthesenow]

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

[documentarychannel]

Now In Theaters: "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles"

Not to encourage you to turn off Documentary Channel, but sometimes you need to leave the house, and when you do go out you probably want to see a nonfiction film on the big screen. Of course, not everyone lives in New York, where most docs debut. So I'll be trying with my best ability each week to include other cities and the expanded or touring films opening there, as well.

The one official release for today is a little favorite of mine titled "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles," which was produced by Doug Block of "51 Birch Street" fame. First-time filmmaker Jon Foy won a Best Director award at Sundance back in January, and if that's not enough to sell you on this enigmatic tale of urban folklore and curious street art, how about my blurb quoted in the trailer: "as sci-fi as a non-fiction film can get." The film is now showing at the IFC Center in NYC.

Expanded releases (older films, new cities, some also playing elsewhere):

"Senna" - Indianapolis (IN) and St. Louis (MO)

"Project Nim" - Maitland (FL), Honolulu (HI), Rhinebeck (NY), Tacoma (WA)

"The Interrupters" - San Francisco (CA), Berkeley (CA), St. Johnsbury (VT)

"Life in a Day" - Bridgeport (CT)

"Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest" - Little Rock (AR), New Haven (CT), Akron (OH), Oklahoma City (OK)

"El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" - Wilmington (DE), Lake Park (FL)

"Page One: Inside the New York Times" - Wilmington (DE), Houston (TX)

"Bill Cunningham New York" - Columbia (MO)

"Buck" - Wasilla (AK), Huntsville (AL), San Diego (CA), San Francisco (CA), Breckenridge (CO), Eagle (CO), Winter Park (CO), Niantic (CT), Coral Gables (FL), Fort Lauderdale (FL), Lake Worth (FL), Ormond Beach (FL), Cedar Rapids (IA), Lewiston (ID), Meridian (ID), St. Anthony (ID), Sun Valley (ID), Colby (KS), Petoski (MI), East Grand Forks (MN), Bethlehem (NH), Rosendale (NY), Klamath Falls (OR), North Bend (OR), Roseburg (OR), Gettysburg (PA), Beeville (TX), Fredericksburg (TX), Kerryville (TX), Salt Lake City (UT), Fairfax (VA), Lynchburg (VA), Aberdeen (WA), Chehalis (WA), Concrete (WA), Port Angeles (WA), Seattle (WA), Sunnyside (WA), Casper (WY)

Still Playing (Check Listings):  

"Tabloid"

"Glee The 3D Concert Movie"

"Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place"

  If you would like a film's opening or expansion included in the weekly Now In Theaters post, click the contact link on the right and send me an email.

[folkloreuh-blog-blog]

One of my favorite Sundance films, maybe THE favorite, I don't know where you can find it it doesn't look like it's getting a release BUT TRY

[helledeau-blog]

I had no idea that such things were possible in life. Just a few weeks ago I was a housecleaner...This is for all the artists working in obscurity out there. Never give up, because if you do, you know what will happen. If you don't give up, you don't know what will happen.

Jon Foy, after winning the U.S. Documentary Competition Directing award at Sundance this weekend.