Reviews of ‘Torture the Artist’
The Boston Globe: “The Cost of Living for Art or God” by Caroline Leavitt. Link for more …
Vincent Spintti is an archetypical tortured artist, a sensitive young romantic who falls victim to alienation, parental neglect, poverty, depression, alcoholism, illness, nervous breakdowns and unrequited love. What Vincent is painfully unaware of is that these torments are due to the secret manipulations of the jaded writer/ex-musician Harlan Eiffler, who does the dirty work for New Renaissance, an experimental entertainment organization that is testing the age-old idea of art coming from suffering.
Lucky Rabbit Films Signs Hungarian Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély for Upcoming Film
Austin, Texas – September 2009 – Lucky Rabbit Films has signed on Hungarian Cinematographer Mátyás Erdály for the upcoming feature film Torture the Artist.
Mátyás has showcased his films in prestigious festivals around the world, including Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Sundance. He has been awarded several prizes, establishing himself as one of the industry’s top Directors of Photography. Mátyás is a “regular” at Cannes with four films in different sections over the past few years. His latest feature work Delta, a Hungarian-German co-production, was in the main competition and won the FIPRESCI Award in 2008 at Cannes.