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MEDICINE OPENING NOT MELANCHOLY

Congrats to director Barry Jenkins and stars Wyatt Cenac and Tracey Heggins — their film, Medicine for Melancholy, featured on the cover of the new Filmmaker, scored the #1 spot on the Indiewire per-screen average chart this weekend. Writes Peter Knegt, “IFC Films’ one-screen debut of Barry Jenkins’ Medicine For Melancholy narrowly led all per-theater-averages this weekend, according to estimates provided this afternoon by Rentrak. Its $14,700 haul from New York’s IFC Center became the best opening for a 2009 limited release so far, and beat out Laurent Cantet’s The Class in its first week of release outside of December’s […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 1, 2009

OPENING SLAMDANCE WITH “I SELL THE DEAD” By Alicia Van Couvering

Glenn McQuaid’s I Sell The Dead, starring Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman, will open Slamdance this year. Taglined “Never Trust a Corpse,” it’s a vintage-inspired horror-comedy set in the 18th or 19th-century, structured as a series of drunken recollections on the life of a career grave robber (Monaghan.) The film is produced by and co-stars horror-master Larry Fessenden (Wendigo, The Last Winter, Habit) of the New York production outfit Glass Eye Pix. The team behind ISTD – McQuaid, Fessenden and Scareflix producer Peter Phok — sat down with Filmmaker on the eve of their trip to Park City to reminisce […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 16, 2009

SUNDANCE ’09 OPENS WITH MARY and MAX

The Sundance Institute announced today that they will be opening the 25th Sundance Film Festival with the world premiere of the clay animation film, Mary and Max. Directed by Academy Award-winning short filmmakers Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs (Harvie Krumpet), actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette lend their voices to the film and is narrated by Barry Humphries. From the press release: Mary and Max is the tale of two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. The story […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 19, 2008

SILENT LIGHT OPENS IN NEW YORK

I completely missed notice that Carlos Reygados’s third feature, Silent Light, is opening today in New York. I think this film is a flat-out masterpiece, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Manohla Dargis writes about the film in today’s New York Times. An excerpt: I’ve seen Silent Light three times — it had its premiere at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival — and find it more pleasurable and touching with each viewing. After having wowed and appalled international audiences with bravura technique in his first feature, Japón (2002), and assaultive provocations in his second, Battle in Heaven (2005), which […]

by Scott Macaulay on Sep 23, 2008

MEDICINE OPENS INDEPENDENT FILM WEEK

IFP has announced it will be kicking off it’s 30th annual Independent Film Week with the New York premiere of Barry Jenkins‘s Medicine For Melancholy. A party will follow honoring Jenkins and the other talents included in this year’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, which also marks Filmmaker‘s 10th year doing the list. Five of this year’s “25” will also be premiering short films at Independent Film Week created for an initiative with Nokia and IFP. The three-minute films, shot on a Nokia mobile device, include: Jessie Epstein‘s Rust, Ryan Bilsborrow Koo & Zachary Lieberman‘s Untitled, Matt Wolf‘s Boca, […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Sep 8, 2008

THE CLASS TO OPEN 46TH NYFF

In an announcement sent out today, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has chosen Laurent Cantet‘s Palme d’Or winner The Class as the opening film of the 2008 New York Film Festival, marking the film’s American debut (the film will be released later in the year through Sony Pictures Classics). Two showcases at the Walter Reade Theater have also been announced. “In the Realm of Oshima” will celebrate the work of Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima and runs thoughout the festival while the annual “Views from the Avant-Garde” will feature a 30th anniversary of Guy Debord‘s In girum imus nocte et […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jul 15, 2008

IN BRUGES ANNOUNCED AS SUNDANCE OPENING NIGHT FILM

In a release sent out moments ago, the Sundance Institute has announced Martin McDonagh‘s comedy In Bruges as the Sundance Film Festival‘s 2008 Opening Night Film. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. For those who may not be familiar with McDonagh, he’s an award-winning playwright and this film marks his debut feature. More on McDonagh and the film is in the release from Sundance below. The entire 2008 festival line-up will be announced Nov. 28 and 29. McDonagh’s first foray into filmmaking was with the short film, SIX SHOOTER, also starring Gleeson, which won the Academy […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 19, 2007

IN BETWEEN DAYS OPENS IN NYC

Last year writer/director So Yong Kim (pictured) was one of Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces of 2006, and now, her debut feature, In Between Days, is opening in New York. GreenCine rounds up links to the rave reviews, and The Reeler has an interview with Kim in which she discusses her upcoming projects, the current movie’s long march through the festival circuit and into release, and the methods by which she cast her movie.

by Scott Macaulay on Jun 27, 2007

COCAINE ANGEL OPENS IN NYC

If you’re in NYC this week, check out Michael Tully’s Cocaine Angel, which opened at the Pioneer for a weeklong run yesterday. Tully was one of our “25 New Faces” last year, and here’s what Matthew Ross had to say about the film: Filmmaker, musician, blogger and housepainter Michael Tully has been keeping himself busy the past year. It was only about 13 months ago that he and writer-star Damian Lahey finished tearing a festering little hole into the drug-addiction film subgenre with Cocaine Angel, a dime-bag-budgeted, grime-covered crawl through a Florida cokehead’s sunshineless state. With its claustrophobic apartments, torn […]

by Scott Macaulay on Feb 22, 2007

MOUTH TO MOUTH OPENS IN NEW YORK

Alison Murray’s feature Mouth to Mouth opened this weekend in New York at the Village East. I met Alison three or so years ago at the Rotterdam Cinemart and the IFP No Borders Lab where she was raising money for the feature, liked the script and her tough vision and tried to help her attach some American actors to the movie. In the end, Alison made the film in Europe with her own hand-picked cast of up-and-coming actors, one of whom, Ellen Page (Hard Candy, X3) is already a rising star. The film tells the semi-autobiographical story of a young […]

by Scott Macaulay on May 20, 2006

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