Experimental filmmaker and WGBH mainstay Jay Anania follows The Pagan Book of Arthur Rimbaud, his celebrated 1995 first feature, with an urban update of the Apollo and Diana myth starring Julian Sands and Paulina Porizkova. Called Long Time Since, the film focuses on a remote beauty, Diana (Porizkova), living chastely as a botanical illustrator in New York. When Diana hears a recording of an old song she'd been listening to on her car radio as she glimpsed a brutal crime 25 years earlier, her repressed memory of the event begins to surface, and she's compelled to investigate the mystery. What Diana can't guess is that her emerging memory is being orchestrated by the ethereal Michael (Sands), and the film unfolds through parallel timelines as he leads her inexorably towards his door.

Long Time Since picked up steam when Sands, who had been approached by Anania with the script, reportedly told him, "Whenever you're shooting this, let me know--I want to do it." Former IFP Director Karen Arikian, now based in Hamburg with the European Film Distribution Office, also fell for Rimbaud and signed on as a producer, as did industry stalwart Robert Colesberry (The Devil's Own). Partial financing for the $150,000 film came from producing partners Lemore Syvan and Ron Kastner (Angela, Federal Hill). Spearheading day-to-day operations is Callum Greene, a Brit theater-world transplant who recently completed a film producing MFA at Columbia and won the school's coveted Arthur Krim fellowship.

Principal photography on the Super-16mm film began April 7 in Manhattan. All rights are available. (Rimbaud is scheduled for release later this year from Noon Pictures.)

Cast: Paulina Porizkova, Julian Sands, Jeff Webster, Julianne Nicholson, Rainer Judd, Marian Quinn. Crew: Producers, Jay Anania, Ron Kastner, Lemore Syvan; Executive Producers, Robert Colesberry, Karen Arikian; Coproducers, Callum Greene, Kate Cunningham; Screenwriter/Director, Anania; Director of Photography, Oliver Bokelberg; Gaffer, Matthew Williams; Sound, Noah Timan. Contact: Jay Anania, Long Time Since, Tel: (212) 925-4942, Fax: (212) 925-5380.

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