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STEPHANY
DALEY
In a memorable opening sequence, 16-year-old Stephanie Daley
(Joan of Arcadia’s Amber Tamblyn, who graced our winter
cover) gives birth while on a school skiing trip. Hours later,
the baby is found dead, seemingly murdered. When Stephanie’s
case comes to trial, forensic psychologist Lydie Crane (Tilda
Swinton), who is herself pregnant after recently miscarrying,
is asked to ascertain whether Stephanie is mentally sound.
Writer-director Hilary Brougher’s dark, psychological
thriller delves into the circumstances of both women’s
lives, gradually revealing Stephanie’s backstory through
flashback, and is as preoccupied by the inner workings of
the their minds as she is with the thriller aspects of the
movie. Well-acted and directed with a confident remove, Stephanie
Daley is an intelligent and engrossing film which raises thought-provoking
questions about female attitudes and responses to pregnancy
and childbirth.
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HOT
FUZZ
The Brits behind the sleeper hit zombie romantic comedy (or
“zom rom com”) Shaun of the Dead return with this
dangerously enjoyable take on the buddy cop movie. Star policeman
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is banished from his London beat
for being too effective, and sent to a sleepy village in the
English countryside, a place where crime seemingly does not
exist. His new inspector (Jim Broadbent) tries to stop him
from being over vigilant, but Simon’s wide-eyed new
partner (Nick Frost) is desperate to become a “proper
policeman” and has the chance to when the pair begin
to uncover dastardly local goings on. Co-written by Pegg and
director Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz is wonderfully observed, an
affectionate and extremely funny love letter to the American
thriller, which manages to deliver genre thrills as well as
high octane laughs.
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GOT
MILK?
Imagine two directors racing to make a film about an out,
witty, slightly acerbic gay man whose legacy would forever
be defined by his connection to a horrific murderous rampage.
No, I am not talking about Truman Capote, for whom two films
-- Bennett Miller's Capote and Douglas McGrath's Infamous
-- retold Capote’s infamous struggle to write In Cold
Blood, the non-fiction novel that secured his literary fame
while nearly destroying his sanity. This time it's Harvey
Milk.
In Variety, Michael
Fleming and Pamela McClintock reported in their article "Dueling
Directors Milk a Good Story" that both Bryan Singer and
Gus Van Sant are set to make a film about Harvey Milk. A San
Francisco supervisor, and one of our first out gay politicians,
Harvey Milk was murdered along with mayor George Moscone on
November 27, 1978 when another supervisor Dan White went on
a killing spree (supposedly set off according to White's defense
team from his eating Twinkies)... |
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IFP ROUGH
CUT LAB DEADLINE APPROACHING
A couple of years ago I worked on a new program with the Independent
Feature Project: the Rough Cut Labs. The idea came, in part,
from my realization that much of maintaining a filmmaking
career involves making a series of mistakes and then remembering
not to make them on the next film you do. But if you're making
your first film, what if somebody could tell you beforehand
what mistakes you might be likely to make? Or, forget mistakes,
what if people who have been through the trenches could let
you know what to expect as your film moves from the security
of its edit room into the dangers of the real world?...
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HONEYDRIPPER
- Rough Cut Clip of New John Sayles Film
A first look at John Sayles' newest film Honeydripper; due
out by Emerging Pictures in 2008. Click
here
The film stars Danny Glover
as the owner of a failing juke joint in 1950s Alabama who
hires a young electric guitarist in hopes to keep from closing
down.
Read
the complete stories at Filmmakermagazine's Blog... |
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RED
ROAD - By Ray Pride
Andrea Arnold’s beautifully crafted first feature, Red
Road, the follow-up to her Oscar-winning short film, Wasp,
was shot on digital video and exploits a fresh, bold palette
in telling the story of Jackie (Kate Dickie), an alienated
Glasgow policewoman whose job is to watch Glasgow’s
banks on surveillance monitors. One day, she notices a man
behaving unusually and, becoming fixated on him, crosses a
line. Stepping out from behind her monitors, she follows him
towards the dangerous housing project called Red Road...
Click
here for the rest of the article
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