Spring 2010
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JENNIFER LAWRENCE Q&A
This piece was originally printed in the Spring 2010 issue. Winter’s Bone is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Best Supporting Actor (John Hawkes) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini). It’s not often a striking young girl makes it in Hollywood without accentuating her looks, but Jennifer Lawrence is not your typical 19-year-old actress. While many of her peers go for lightweight parts in bubblegum teen comedies, Lawrence has taken a more serious route, filled with dark roles that deal with issues well beyond her years. The Kentucky native left home for L.A. at 14 […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Feb 26, 2011 -
A DAUGHTER’S TALE: DEBRA GRANIK’S “WINTER’S BONE”
This piece was originally printed in the Spring 2010 issue. Winter’s Bone is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Best Supporting Actor (John Hawkes) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini). The Ozark mountain holler that is the setting for Debra Granik’s fierce and extraordinary Winter’s Bone seems carved away from much of what signifies as “contemporary America” in cinema today. The movie, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, dwells in a landscape that imbues it with the starkness of classic Western frontier drama. Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly is the single-minded heroine who […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 14, 2011 -
Straight Talk: Producer Mike S. Ryan Challenges the Current Preoccupations of Our Independent Film Scene
by Mike S. Ryan on Jun 24, 2010
Producer Mike S. Ryan challenges the current preoccupations of our independent film scene.
