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RED
ROAD
Red Road is the first of three installments in the Advance
Party series, a concept conceived by Danish filmmakers Lone
Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen which demands three directors
each make a film featuring the same set of characters. Here,
debutant Andrea Arnold, a British Oscar-winning shorts director,
concocts a dark, tense thriller set in a downtrodden part
of Glasgow, Scotland. Jackie (Kate Dickie), a reclusive CCTV
operator, spots ex-con Clyde (Tony Curran), a man from her
troubled, mysterious past, and is compelled to obsessively
follow him, starting a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Intelligent,
engrossing and brilliantly acted, Arnold¢s film won the
Jury Prize at Cannes last year, and has since wowed festival
crowds worldwide.
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PRIVATE
FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES
After 1993¢s Smoking/Non Smoking, Alain Resnais once
again brings an Alan Ayckbourne play to the big screen, although
this time transposing the action to Paris and gives the material
a distinctly French twist. The film follows the loosely connected
lives of six Parisians, all in search of love and fulfillment,
but none able to find it. Given that he is almost 85 years
old, it is inevitable that Resnais (who won Best Director
for the film at Venice) tackles the theme of mortality, though
never head on. A very human comedy of manners, Private Fears
in Public Places is funny as well as profoundly poignant,
and boasts resonant, moving performances from the ensemble
cast, many of them Resnais regulars.
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TRIBECA'S
GREEN SCREEN
The Tribeca Film Festival today announced that Al Gore will
host the fest's opening night gala on April 25, which will
also feature seven SOS short films. SOS (Save Our Selves)
is the organisation set up by Gore and Kevin Wall (the worldwide
executive producer of the Live 8 concerts) to "trigger
a mass-scale movement to combat our climate crisis,"
and which is organizing Live Earth concerts around the globe
on 07/07/07. The seven shorts which will be shown are part
of the SOS Short Films Program. The program has commissioned
60 prominent filmmakers, from documentarians to animators,
to create thought-provoking films on global warming which
will be shown at the Live Earth concerts in July. The participating
filmmakers announced so far are Aardman Animation (Wallace
and Gromit), Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), Heidi Ewing
and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp), Abel Ferrera (King of New York),
Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast), Kevin MacDonald (Last King of
Scotland), and Ari Sandel (West Bank Story). More names will
be announced in the near future.
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AFTER
DARK HORROR FEST
Late last year, Lionsgate had a great idea: unleash 8 of their
recent horror aquisitions theatrically in a one-weekend marathon,
the After Dark Horrorfest, giving the features a chance to
unspool on screens across America for a limited time. Not
only was the novel approach a flashy event, but it was also
a way to use paying customers as a test audience to guage
crowd response. The winner? The Abandoned, which was gifted
with nation wide theatrical just recently, and garnered some
good reviews...
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THE
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW: JAKE KASDAN - By Nick Dawson
Writer-director Jake Kasdan comes from a filmmaking family:
his father is Hollywood heavyweight Lawrence Kasdan, director
of Body Heat (1981), The Big Chill (1983) and Grand Canyon
(1991), and his younger brother Jonathan has just written
and directed his first film, In the Land of Women. Jake's
own debut came in 1998, when he wrote and directed the quirky
private detective movie Zero Effect, which he followed up
in 2002 with Orange County. In between, Kasdan directed several
episodes of two high-quality but short-lived Judd Apatow-produced
TV series, Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, and also helmed
the pilot for a TV version of Zero Effect...
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