Robert Lieberman is embarking on a new film project, titled "In Search of Kew Gardens."
Find out more information at the new website for this new fim: www.kewgardensmovie.com
Green Lights has been selected to be screened at Loew's Theaters as part of the New Jersey Film Symposium.
Screening are:
March 21st, 7pm at LOEWS THEATRES MOUNTAINSIDE
March 22nd, 7pm at LOEWS THEATRES MONMOUTH MALL
"Green Lights" has been selected to premiere in the Philippines Film Festival "Films and Society."
It will be playing in Manila's Megamall Cinema 6 on Feb 14th at 6:30 PM.
The US Embassy will be hosting a reception for local dignitaries prior to the screening.
Following that, the film travels on to various islands in the Philippines for additional screening through the month of February as part of the on-going festival.
Just listen to how the critics have been raving about the new feature "Green Lights" written and directed by best-selling novelist Robert H. Lieberman and Emmy Award winner Slavomir Grunberg.
Scott Foundas, Variety:
In making "Green Lights," debut helmer Robert H. Lieberman achieves spectacularly funny results... "Green Lights" delivers the small town-meets-Hollywood vibe David Mamet was shooting for with the failed "State and Main."
FitzGibbon, a wonderfully wide-eyed comic actor... is more than up to the task of carrying the action.
"Green Lights" is one of those great, absurd movies-within-movies... made all the funnier by the fact that it's so frighteningly close to a movie Hollywood actually made: "Newsies."
"Green Lights" may invoke Capra in its big-hearted treatment of characters and its ability to mix pathos with the laughter, but it never gets too mawkish.
Pic is peppered with some delightful visual gags...
In a just world this delightful romp would meet with the same word-of-mouth success as the low-key "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Read the full review from Daily Variety
This is about as charming a home-grown movie as you're ever likely to see.
Shot in and around picturesque Ithaca, N.Y., it features obviously local actors and extras.
The plot concerns a dreamer of a “film producer” who connects with the local authors of a musical script and decides to produce it, without regard for the basics of funding or authorship.
Subplots abound.
A well-constructed, if predictable script avoids the usual pitfalls and the actors are attractive. But a major flaw: It has Ithaca, home of Cornell University and one of the most literate communities in America, a s rube-filled burg; it’s anything but.
-G.M.
Read a related article from Herald-Tribune
Amy Taubin, contributing editor, Film Comment:
A big-hearted spin on an overworked genre, Robert Lieberman's delectable comedy is the best advertisement for regional filmmaking. The narrative is filled with small surprises and Capra-worthy twists. John Fitzgibbon's manic-depressive performance is scarily recognizable to anyone the least bit familiar with the movie biz, and the supporting actors, many of them Ithaca citizens playing themselves, are rough, ready, and altogether delightful. Co-producer and cinematographer Slawomir Grunberg's energetic lensing is another plus.
Michael Janusonis, Providence Journal:
It's a go for "Green Lights". Of all the films at this year's Rhode Island International Film Festival, Robert Lieberman's funny Green Lights is nearest to my heart.
"Green Lights" is about the kind of brain fever that strikes the residents of a small city...
Lieberman's film covers the same territory as David Mamet's State and Main, about what happens when a movie crew invades a small town, but it doesn't have the mean-spiritedness of that flop. "Green Lights" is sweet and innocent, sort of a modern-day Music Man... For a small-budget film, Green Lights stands above some of the bigger-budget comedies recently out of Hollywood. The cast is solid... For a small-budget film, Green Lights stands above some of the bigger-budget comedies recently out of Hollywood.
Read the full review from The Providence Journal
Karen W. Arenson, New York Times:
A rave review...
Village Voice:
A flipside to Mamet's snotty "State and Main", this wonderful film-within-a-film sports a winning turn by John FitzGibbon
Film Fest
Behind the Scenes
The Santa Cruz Film Festival debuts with an explosive list of stellar flicks, but it’s the movie within a movie that is one of the must-see’s of the event
by Christa Martin
Never write a movie about the movies. That’s the sage advice that gurus tell students who pay hundreds of dollars for screenwriting classes. Well, those “words of wisdom” can officially be dismissed since the success of last year’s brilliant film Adaptation and the movie Green Lights that will be shown at the Santa Cruz Film Festival at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 4 at the Rio Theatre. Sure, writing a movie about the movies can be predictable, but it can also be smashing fun and insightful if it’s done well. The result is in the hands of the screenwriter, and Robert H. Lieberman, the director and writer of Green Lights has proved all the teachers wrong. (Ironically, Lieberman is a professor of physics at Cornell University.)
His indie, low-budget film has all the feel, panache, and talent of a studio-financed film. There are no recognizable stars in his film, but Lieberman scored with a very strong cast of actors that are consistent and always believable. The script is sharp, witty, original and refreshing. It’s a film you should go see at the Santa Cruz Film Festival. You won’t be disappointed.
Read the full review from Good Times
2003:
“Green Lights” has been made an Official Selection of the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
The film will be screening on Wednesday, June 4 at 7 PM at the Riverfront Theater in Santa Cruz.
“Green Lights” is playing in Los Angeles at the American Film Market.
Lemle's Santa Monica Theater on Monday, Feb. 24 at 11 A.M.
2002:
“Green Lights” is being featured at the Cine-world fest in Sarasota on November 8th and 9th.
Friday Nov. 8th - 7:25
Sat. Nov. 9th - 12:30
“Green Lights” plays where it was filmed.
See "The Ithaca Movie" in Ithaca at Fall Creek Pictures from October 4th to October 10th.
“Green Lights”was also selected for the NewFilmmakers Feature Presentation in New York City.
It showed in Manhattan at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, September 4 at:
Anthology Film Archives Theater
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
(212) 505-5181
“Green Lights" was made an official selection for the Rhode Island International Film Festival and screened:
Monday, August 12 at 7:15 PM
8:37 PM 7/31/2002 The Columbus Theatre
270 Broadway, Providence R.I.
“Green Lights” was an official featured selection at the DancesWithFilms Festival in Los Angeles.
It screened at 7:15pm on Saturday, July 13 at:
LAEMMLE’S MONICA 4-PLEX
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica
(310) 394-9744
Writer/Director Robert Lieberman's newest novel has just been published by Source Books; The Last Boy.
The book has been getting rave reviews around the country:
"In this remarkable and moving novel, a small-town thriller about a missing child becomes a fantasy with universal implications for anyone who cares about the fate of the earth."- Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Foreign Affairs
"A mother's anguish. A child's gift to the world. "The Last Boy" is an engrossing novel with a conscience. Lieberman is a dazzling story teller who takes you on a riveting ride that will make you stop, think and listen."- Robert C. Richardson, Nobel Laureate in Physics
"Robert Lieberman has constructed a tale at once powerful, tender, and courageous."
- Tony Caputi, author of Storms and Son, and Loving Evie
