Authors — Jane Schoenbrun

LARS KNUDSEN AND JAY VAN HOY SIGN DEVELOPMENT DEAL WITH K5

Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy, the producing duo behind Gotham Award Best Picture winner and Oscar nominee Beginners, have signed an output and development deal with sales, finance, and production company K5 Media Group. The deal marks an alliance between two rising indie powerhouses. Knudsen and Van Hoy have been building their reputation for the past ten years. In 2004, they founded production company Parts & Labor and steadily accumulated a body of festival circuit sleeper hits including Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, Cam Archer’s Wild Tigers I Have Known, and Nik Fackler’s Lovely, Still. More recently, the duo produced […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Feb 1, 2012
SXSW REVEALS FULL 2012 FEATURE FILM LINEUP

SXSW has announced their complete 2012 feature film slate. Over 90 films will screen across the festival’s ten categories, including the already announced opening night premiere of Joss Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods and a special preview screening of Lena Dunham’s new HBO series Girls. New additions include the sixteen films premiering in narrative and documentary competition. The eight films competing on the narrative side include Booster, directed by Matt Ruskin, Eden, directed by Megan Griffiths, Gayby, directed by Jonathan Lisecki, Gimme the Loot, directed by Adam Leon, Los Chidos, directed by Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Pilgrim Song, directed by Martha […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Feb 1, 2012
FEBRUARY 2012 VOD TITLES

Filmmaker has launched the February edition of its curated monthly list of notable VOD titles. Highlights include many of 2011’s end of year standouts, including Sean Durkin’s cult thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, Bruce Robinson’s foray into the twisted mind of Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary, and Jeff Nichol’s apocalyptic Americana Take Shelter, a film that Michael Tully called a “modern American masterpiece” in his Hammer to Nail review. Also available are some very promising first-quarter 2012 titles, including Liza Johnson’s war vet character portrait Return and Tony Kaye’s Adrien Brody-starring classroom drama Detachment. For titles from previous months […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Feb 1, 2012
TRAILER WATCH: MATT WALSH’S “THE HIGH ROAD”

As one of the four founding members of seminal New York improv group The Upright Citizens Brigade, Matt Walsh has been thinking on his feet for years. And with The High Road, his directorial debut, he’s taking that skill to a new playing field, crafting a feature-length “improv movie.” Throughout the shoot, Walsh presented his actors with scene outlines and plot points, but left it to them to fill in the details and the dialogue. In lesser hands this might prove a recipe for listlessness, but with a cast that included improv stalwarts such as Ed Helms, Lizzy Caplan, Zach […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 31, 2012
VIDEO: “ARBITRAGE” DIRECTOR NICHOLAS JARECKI

Stephen and Patrick from the National Film Society are back with one last Sundance interview. And they’re going in style, sitting down with Nicholas Jarecki, director of the hedge-fund thriller Arbitrage, for what Jarecki refers to as “without a doubt the weirdest interview I’ve ever done.” One of the big hits of this year’s festival, Arbitrage sold to Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions for a deal reportedly in the $2.5 million range. Video Highlight: Jarecki hilariously describing some unexpected sexual tension during his first meeting with actor Richard Gere. Watch that, and more, below:
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 31, 2012
TRAILER WATCH: “EASTBOUND AND DOWN” SEASON THREE

HBO has released the trailer for the third and final season of its Danny McBride-starring comedy, Eastbound and Down. Created by Jody Hill (The Foot Fist Way) and David Gordon Green (George Washington, The Sitter), the first two seasons tracked fowl-mouthed, washed-up baseball icon Kenny Powers (McBride) as he moved back to his hometown and courted success in Mexico, respectively. This year, Powers is headed to Miami Beach, where he’s making a last ditch effort to climb back up to the majors. Returning along with McBride are many of the show’s supporting players, including John Hawkes, Will Ferrell, and The […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 31, 2012
VIDEO: TERENCE NANCE AND NAMIK MINTER OF “AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY”

Sundance 2012 is in the wind, but Stephen and Patrick from the National Film Society are back with another interview they filmed during the festival. This time out, the duo sit down with director Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) and actress Namik Minter. Minter and Nance, who spent over half a decade readying Oversimplification, are good sports, answering Stephen and Patrick’s questions about their favorite part of being in love, their least favorite part of being in love, and how to get into Sundance parties. Watch the interview:
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 30, 2012
“BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD” TOPS SUNDANCE AWARD WINNERS

With Sundance wrapping up tomorrow, this year’s award winners were announced at a ceremony tonight in Park City. Perhaps unsurprising considering the amount of critical acclaim it’s been garnering this past week, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild took home the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Meanwhile, Eugene Jarecki’s War on Drugs critique The House I Live In won this year’s Documentary Grand Jury Prize, and Mark O’Brien’s crowd-pleasing drama The Surrogate took home the Dramatic Audience Award. The full list of winners: Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: Beasts of the Southern Wild Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: The House I Live […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 29, 2012
Five Questions with I Am Not a Hipster Director Destin Daniel Cretton

A dubious term to be sure, it seems that one of the pre-reqs for hipster certification is denying that you actually are one. Based on this criterion, Brook, the main character in Destin Daniel Cretton’s feature debut, definitely qualifies. But I Am Not a Hipster is not so much concerned with labels as it is with crafting an intimate, small-scale character portrait. Adrift in San Diego’s music scene, Brook’s lackadaisical lifestyle is interrupted when his family visits with the intention of spreading his late mother’s ashes. Cretton, who made a splash at Sundance in 2009 with his Grand Jury Prize […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 27, 2012
“WELCOME TO PINE HILL,” “NO ASHES NO PHOENIX” TAKE HOME TOP HONORS AT SLAMDANCE AWARDS

During a ceremony held tonight at Park City’s Treasure Mountain Inn, prize winners were announced for the 18th annual Slamdance Film Festival. Taking home the Narrative Grand Jury Prize was Welcome to Pine Hill, Keith Miller’s vérité portrait of a reformed Brooklyn drug dealer undergoing a crisis of mortality. Meanwhile, Jens Pfeifer’s basketball documentary No Ashes, No Phoenix was awarded the Documentary Grand Jury Prize, while Caskey Ebeling’s Getting Up and Andrew Edison’s Bindlestiffs took home the Audience Awards for documentary and narrative, respectively. The full list of winners, per The Hollywood Reporter: AUDIENCE AWARDS Audience Award for Feature Documentary: […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Jan 27, 2012

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