We're proud to be partnering up with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival again this year. It opens tonight in London and to celebrate we're currently showing Sara Ishaq's The Mulberry House (pictured above) in the UK—watch it now! the 74th issue of Senses of Cinema is online now, and will keep you busy with a dozen feature articles, not counting festival reports. Start with the Editor's Note and work your way to their focus on Michelangelo Antonioni and Paul Thomas Anderson.Another online journal we're very fond of, desistfilm, has a new issue as well. Among the highlights, Adrian Martin writes on "The Post-Photographic in 1951: A Secret History." The lineup for Hot Docs, the Canadian documentary film festival taking place between April 23rd and May 5th, has been announced and the details can be found here, and trailers for the films (over 80!) can be found here.
- 3/18/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
From Boyhood to Birdman, here's the flicks and stars who had already won at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards before Oscars Sunday!
Birdman took home the most awards on Saturday night, winning three accolades including Best Feature. Boyhood, Nightcrawler and Whiplash all won two awards each and Julianne Moore was recognized for her leading lady role in Still Alice.
Photos: 2015 Oscars Star Shots!
Check out the full list of Spirit Award winners, below:
Best Feature: Birdman
Producers: Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
Best Male Lead: Michael Keaton, Birdman
Best Female Lead: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
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Best Director: Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Supporting Female: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Best Supporting Male: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Best Screenplay: Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
Best Documentary: Citizenfour
Director/Producer: Laura Poitras Producers: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
Best International Film: Ida (Poland)
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Best First Feature:
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Birdman took home the most awards on Saturday night, winning three accolades including Best Feature. Boyhood, Nightcrawler and Whiplash all won two awards each and Julianne Moore was recognized for her leading lady role in Still Alice.
Photos: 2015 Oscars Star Shots!
Check out the full list of Spirit Award winners, below:
Best Feature: Birdman
Producers: Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
Best Male Lead: Michael Keaton, Birdman
Best Female Lead: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
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Best Director: Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Supporting Female: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Best Supporting Male: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Best Screenplay: Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
Best Documentary: Citizenfour
Director/Producer: Laura Poitras Producers: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
Best International Film: Ida (Poland)
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Best First Feature:
[link...
- 2/22/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
Better late than never on filing a report from yesterday's Spirit Awards and pre-Oscar festivities, I guess. It was a late night, Harvey Weinstein and his peeps rounding things out with a big soiree/dinner that drew to a close around midnight, so my bed was far more enticing than my keyboard when I got back to the homestead. The Spirit Awards are generally my favorite event of the season, largely because the imbibing starts early and the attitude is super lax. But it's also my own personal bow on things (as I always happily steer clear of the Oscars), saying final goodbyes to colleagues and talent I've interacted with consistently over the season. And given that Film Independent was apparently looking to break the record for most commercial breaks in a single awards show, I was able to bounce around and catch up with just about everyone I was hoping to.
- 2/22/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Michael Keaton and Edward Norton in Birdman Birdman flew away with the top prize for best feature at the Independent Spirit Awards tonight in La. The film, above, directed by Alejandro Iñárritu, also saw Michael Keaton named best actor for his role as a washed-up actor who tries to recapture his former glory in a play on Broadway.
Richard Linklater was named best director for his 11-year exertions on Boyhood, which also saw Patricia Arquette named best supporting actress. Julianne Moore was named best female lead for her role as an Alzheimer's sufferer in Still Alice, while Jk Simmons picked up the best supporting male award for his role as a draconian conductor in Whiplash.
The John Cassavetes Award for the best feature made for under $500,000 went to Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens for their Iceland Odyssey Land Ho!
Full list of nominees and winners below:
Best Feature (Award given...
Richard Linklater was named best director for his 11-year exertions on Boyhood, which also saw Patricia Arquette named best supporting actress. Julianne Moore was named best female lead for her role as an Alzheimer's sufferer in Still Alice, while Jk Simmons picked up the best supporting male award for his role as a draconian conductor in Whiplash.
The John Cassavetes Award for the best feature made for under $500,000 went to Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens for their Iceland Odyssey Land Ho!
Full list of nominees and winners below:
Best Feature (Award given...
- 2/22/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell hosted the 30th Independent Spirit Awards from Los Angeles today (February 21).
Digital Spy rounds up all of the winners from this year's ceremony below:
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Winner!
Boyhood
Love is Strange
Selma
Whiplash
Best Director
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Ava DuVernay - Selma
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater - Boyhood - Winner!
David Zellner - Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Best Screenplay
Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski - Big Eyes
J.C. Chandor - A Most Violent Year
Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler - Winner!
Jim Jarmusch - Only Lovers Left Alive
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias - Love is Strange
Best First Feature (Award given to the director and producer.)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Producers: Justin Begnaud, Sina Sayyah
Dear White People
Director/Producer: Justin Simien
Producers: Effie T. Brown,...
Digital Spy rounds up all of the winners from this year's ceremony below:
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Winner!
Boyhood
Love is Strange
Selma
Whiplash
Best Director
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
Ava DuVernay - Selma
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater - Boyhood - Winner!
David Zellner - Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Best Screenplay
Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski - Big Eyes
J.C. Chandor - A Most Violent Year
Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler - Winner!
Jim Jarmusch - Only Lovers Left Alive
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias - Love is Strange
Best First Feature (Award given to the director and producer.)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Producers: Justin Begnaud, Sina Sayyah
Dear White People
Director/Producer: Justin Simien
Producers: Effie T. Brown,...
- 2/22/2015
- Digital Spy
The 30th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards were presented Saturday from a tent on the beach in Santa Monica. Check out the full list of winners below. Best Feature "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" - Winner "Boyhood" "Love is Strange" "Selma" "Whiplash" Best Director Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash" Ava DuVernay, "Selma" Alejandro G. Iñárritu, "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" Richard Linklater, "Boyhood" - Winner David Zellner, "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter" Best Screenplay Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, "Big Eyes" J.C. Chandor, "A Most Violent Year" Dan Gilroy, "Nightcrawler" - Winner Jim Jarmusch, "Only Lovers Left Alive" Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias, "Love is Strange" Best First Feature Ana Lily Amirpour, "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" Justin Simien, "Dear White People" Dan Gilroy, "Nightcrawler" - Winner Gillian Robespierre, "Obvious Child" Anja Marquardt, "She's Lost Control" Best First Screenplay Desiree Akhavan, "Appropriate Behavior" Sara Colangelo, "Little Accidents" Justin Lader,...
- 2/21/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
"Just make a movie." That was "Short Term 12" producer Asher Goldstein’s advice for first-time filmmakers at the production case studies panel at the Film Independent Forum in October: Just make it, "not to make a ton of money—or make your money back, even—just making a movie, just to make it, to prove that you can." Read More: What I Wish I Knew About Film Distribution Before Self-Distributing "I Am Not a Hipster" Goldstein, his producing partner Ron Najor and "Land Ho!" writer-director Aaron Katz were on the panel discussing their films' paths to the big screen. Moderating the panel was Seth Caplan, producer of "The Young Kieslowski," which premiered at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival, and Spirit Award winner "In Search of a Midnight Kiss," which he discussed on this same panel at a past Forum. "I was in one of your guys’ seats a few years ago,...
- 1/21/2015
- by Mary Sollosi
- Indiewire
Los Angeles — It was pencils down at 5pm Pst Thursday afternoon as balloting for the nominations stage of the 87th annual Academy Awards drew to a close. This weekend, then — until the competition takes hold once again Sunday night at the Golden Globe Awards — provides a beat to breathe. But not too much. It's still the circuit. And this year's toasted talents were out in force Saturday at events like the morning's Film Independent Spirit Awards brunch in West Hollywood and the annual BAFTA Tea gathering down the street in the afternoon. At the brunch — a notable 30th anniversary celebration for the Spirits — it was a nice mix. That event has gotten bigger and bigger just in the last couple of years. It used to be a modest check-in at the door. Now the street is teeming with paparazzi and lookie loos. Team "Boyhood" was still in stride after Wednesday's soiree,...
- 1/11/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
The North Carolina Film Critics Association has announced its list of nominees in a modest array of categories this season, and once again, it's "Birdman" leading the way, with seven nominations. One of those came for the Tar Heel Award, recognizing artists with ties to North Carolina. Wilkesboro native Zach Galifianakis, who in my opinion actually deserves a hard look for Best Supporting Actor consideration, got a notice there. Check out the full list of nominees below. Winners will be announced Jan. 5. And check out the rest of the season's offerings at The Circuit. Best Narrative Film "Boyhood" "Birdman" "Calvary" "The Grand Budapest Hotel" "A Most Violent Year" "Selma" "Whiplash" Best Director Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Damien Chazelle, "Whiplash" Ava DuVernay, "Selma" David Fincher, "Gone Girl" Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman" Richard Linklater, "Boyhood" Best Actor Ralph Fiennes, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Brendan Gleeson, "Calvary" Tom Hardy, "Locke" Michael Keaton,...
- 12/30/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
The seventh edition of Unknown Pleasures, Berlin's festival of American independent film, will open on January 1 with Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens's Land Ho! and run through January 16. Along with a special program devoted to the work of Alfred Guzzetti, highlights include Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard, Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York, Robert Greene's Actress, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Mike Ott's Lake Los Angeles, Nathan Silver's Uncertain Terms, Tim Sutton's Memphis, Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas, Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future! and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Ellie Lumme. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The seventh edition of Unknown Pleasures, Berlin's festival of American independent film, will open on January 1 with Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens's Land Ho! and run through January 16. Along with a special program devoted to the work of Alfred Guzzetti, highlights include Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard, Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York, Robert Greene's Actress, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Mike Ott's Lake Los Angeles, Nathan Silver's Uncertain Terms, Tim Sutton's Memphis, Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas, Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future! and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Ellie Lumme. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2014
- Keyframe
Last year’s Next section introduced us to new breed of filmmakers in Desiree Akhavan, Sydney Freeland, Madeleine Olnek, Ana Lily Amirpour, Malik Vitthal and Gillian Robespierre while re-introducing us to the likes of Alex Ross Perry, Tim Sutton, Michael Tully, Mark Jackson, Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz. With the likes of Josh Mond (see James White pic above), Rick Alverson, Sean Baker and Matt Sobel, the section comprised of ten films (with two non-world premieres in the Locarno preemed Christmas, Again and Venice Film Festival shown H.) distinctly feels avantgarde. Here are the batch of ten films.
Bob and the Trees / U.S.A., France (Director: Diego Ongaro, Screenwriters: Diego Ongaro, Courtney Maum, Sasha Statman-Weil) — Bob, a 50-year-old logger in rural Massachusetts with a soft spot for golf and gangsta rap, is struggling to make ends meet in a changed economy. When his beloved cow is wounded and a job goes awry,...
Bob and the Trees / U.S.A., France (Director: Diego Ongaro, Screenwriters: Diego Ongaro, Courtney Maum, Sasha Statman-Weil) — Bob, a 50-year-old logger in rural Massachusetts with a soft spot for golf and gangsta rap, is struggling to make ends meet in a changed economy. When his beloved cow is wounded and a job goes awry,...
- 12/3/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Question. What do The Skeleton Twins, The Better Angels and actor Miles Teller have in common? There’ll always be some head-scratcher surprises and snubs and the 2015 Indie Spirit award nominations are no different. It goes with the territory. As we tend to some wounds, we access those that were criminally overlooked in the key categories. Here is a glance at some of the shoulda, woulda and coulda.
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boyhood
Love is Strange
Selma
Whiplash
Falling below the 21 million mark set by the Indie Spirit folks, it is indeed an odd year when a major studio release figures among the fives noms. Considering that Ava DuVernay is an indie talent, I didn’t think her film would be part of the equation. That said, it was a given that Boyhood and the more deserving Birdman and Whiplash would all face off. In...
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boyhood
Love is Strange
Selma
Whiplash
Falling below the 21 million mark set by the Indie Spirit folks, it is indeed an odd year when a major studio release figures among the fives noms. Considering that Ava DuVernay is an indie talent, I didn’t think her film would be part of the equation. That said, it was a given that Boyhood and the more deserving Birdman and Whiplash would all face off. In...
- 11/28/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Tuesday morning, nominations were announced for the 30th annual Independent Spirit Awards. Nominees for Best Feature included "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)," "Boyhood," "Love is Strange," "Selma" and "Whiplash." Films with multiple nominations that didn’t crack the Best Feature include "Obvious Child," "Dear White People," "Nightcrawler," and "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter." One film that’s notably missing (compared to our predictions): "The Imitation Game." Paul Thomas Anderson’s "Inherent Vice" earned the Robert Altman Award, which honors the film's director, casting director and ensemble cast. "Foxcatcher" earned a Special Distinction Award for "its uniqueness of vision, honesty of direction and screenwriting, superb acting and achievement on every level of filmmaking." Winners will be revealed at the annual pre-Oscar Santa Monica ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. See the full list of nominations below: Best Feature "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" "Boyhood" "Love is Strange" "Selma" "Whiplash" Best Director Damien Chazelle,...
- 11/25/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
Amy Berg speaks at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Amy Berg's An Open Secret may still have its world premiere at Doc NYC on November 14 pending further notice from the production company.
Berg, in support of her debut feature film Every Secret Thing which stars Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning and Nate Parker, appeared with directors Aaron Katz (Land Ho!); Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them); Adam Rapp (Loitering With Intent) and Stephen Belber (Match) with moderator Mark Adams for a Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper - Adaptation & Creation panel in April. She spoke about the cooperation between Laura Lippman, the author, and her producer Frances McDormand.
Director Amy Berg Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At this point, An Open Secret remains an unopened secret due to the fact that the scheduled press screening was cancelled earlier this week and the divide between Berg and Esponda Productions.
"Doc NYC regrets...
Amy Berg's An Open Secret may still have its world premiere at Doc NYC on November 14 pending further notice from the production company.
Berg, in support of her debut feature film Every Secret Thing which stars Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning and Nate Parker, appeared with directors Aaron Katz (Land Ho!); Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them); Adam Rapp (Loitering With Intent) and Stephen Belber (Match) with moderator Mark Adams for a Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper - Adaptation & Creation panel in April. She spoke about the cooperation between Laura Lippman, the author, and her producer Frances McDormand.
Director Amy Berg Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At this point, An Open Secret remains an unopened secret due to the fact that the scheduled press screening was cancelled earlier this week and the divide between Berg and Esponda Productions.
"Doc NYC regrets...
- 11/8/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The festival’s 25th edition will feature a contribution from Ai Weiwei and competition titles including Whiplash, Nightcrawler and Foxcatcher.
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.
The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.
Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.
He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.
Brazil
The festival will focus this year on Brazil...
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.
The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.
Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.
He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.
Brazil
The festival will focus this year on Brazil...
- 10/16/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Titles include Shawn Christensen’s Before I Disappear and Suha Arraf’s Villa Touma [pictured]; guests include Mike Leigh and Ruben Ostlund.
The Reykjavik International Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 5) has unveiled the 12 features in competition for the Golden Puffin award, reserved for first or second time directors.
They include Us drama Before I Disappear, from director Shawn Christensen, which picked up the audience audience at SXSW, where it received its world premiere.
Also in the running is family drama Villa Touma, from Palestinian/Israeli director Suha Arraf, which played at Venice and Toronto; and Grzegorz Jaroszuk’s Kebab and Horoscope, which debuted at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The competition line-up includes:
Villa Touma,Suha ArrafThe Lack, Masbedo (It)Age of Cannibals, Johannes Naber (Ger)Before I Disappear, Shawn Christensen (Us-uk)Bonobo, Matthew Hammett Knott (UK)Heimurinn, Iris Elezi, Thomas LogorrheicThe Council of Birds, Timm Kröger (Ger)I Can Quit Whenever I Want,Sydney Sibilia (It)Kebab...
The Reykjavik International Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 5) has unveiled the 12 features in competition for the Golden Puffin award, reserved for first or second time directors.
They include Us drama Before I Disappear, from director Shawn Christensen, which picked up the audience audience at SXSW, where it received its world premiere.
Also in the running is family drama Villa Touma, from Palestinian/Israeli director Suha Arraf, which played at Venice and Toronto; and Grzegorz Jaroszuk’s Kebab and Horoscope, which debuted at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
The competition line-up includes:
Villa Touma,Suha ArrafThe Lack, Masbedo (It)Age of Cannibals, Johannes Naber (Ger)Before I Disappear, Shawn Christensen (Us-uk)Bonobo, Matthew Hammett Knott (UK)Heimurinn, Iris Elezi, Thomas LogorrheicThe Council of Birds, Timm Kröger (Ger)I Can Quit Whenever I Want,Sydney Sibilia (It)Kebab...
- 9/18/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Fury (David Ayer)
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
- 9/3/2014
- by John
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – The pure, character-driven film is as rare as a comic book movie with a bad opening weekend. “Land Ho!” is one of those celluloid treats, the simple story of “Odd Couple” senior citizens – portrayed unforgettably by Earl Lynn Wilson and Paul Eenhoorn – who take a trip to the country of Iceland, and learn how to, and how not to, get along.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The Foghorn Leghorn machinations of Earl Lynn Wilson blend and clash purposely with the lower keyed Eenhoorn. They both tolerate and love one another, which is the best way to generate drama or comedy, even in the midst of such a simple story. Wilson is a hoot, it’s impossible to make up such a character, and indeed the surgeon-turned-actor will inevitably exclaim, “That’s me, baby!” The veteran actor Eenhoorn clings more to character, but even he gets sucked into the Earl Lynn vortex, and the...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The Foghorn Leghorn machinations of Earl Lynn Wilson blend and clash purposely with the lower keyed Eenhoorn. They both tolerate and love one another, which is the best way to generate drama or comedy, even in the midst of such a simple story. Wilson is a hoot, it’s impossible to make up such a character, and indeed the surgeon-turned-actor will inevitably exclaim, “That’s me, baby!” The veteran actor Eenhoorn clings more to character, but even he gets sucked into the Earl Lynn vortex, and the...
- 8/22/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Deauville Film Festival heads have unveiled the make-up of the 40th edition of the fest, and naturally this coming September, we’ve got a Sundance-infused edition being readied for the North West coastal town. Celebrating several new American indie auteurs, noteworthy filmmakers from Park City include Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), A.J. Edwards (The Better Angels), Mark Jackson (War Story) and Damien Chazelle’s much acclaimed Whiplash. Also found in the 14 In Comp slate we find Nathan Silver’s Uncertain Terms — which our Nicholas Bell called “uneasy, uncomfortable, and certainly uncertain”. Also on tap: the French premieres of Before I Go to Sleep and director Chris Messina’s Alex of Venice. Here is the full selection and you can make a detour here to see who is being celebrated at the fest.
In Competition:
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour
I Origins,...
In Competition:
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour
I Origins,...
- 8/20/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Above: Pedro Costa's Horse Money
The Locarno Film Festival has announced their lineup for the 67th edition, taking place this August between the 6th and 16th. It speaks for itself, but, um, wow...
"Every film festival, be it small or large, claims to offer, if not an account of the state of things, then an updated map of the art form and the world it seeks to represent. This cartography should show both the major routes and the byways, along with essential places to visit and those that are more unusual. The Festival del film Locarno is no exception to the rule, and I think that looking through the program you will be able to distinguish the route map for this edition." — Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director
Above: Matías Piñeiro's The Princess of France
Concorso Internazionale (Official Competition)
A Blast (Syllas Tzoumerkas, Greece/Germany/Netherlands)
Alive (Jungbum Park, South Korea)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa,...
The Locarno Film Festival has announced their lineup for the 67th edition, taking place this August between the 6th and 16th. It speaks for itself, but, um, wow...
"Every film festival, be it small or large, claims to offer, if not an account of the state of things, then an updated map of the art form and the world it seeks to represent. This cartography should show both the major routes and the byways, along with essential places to visit and those that are more unusual. The Festival del film Locarno is no exception to the rule, and I think that looking through the program you will be able to distinguish the route map for this edition." — Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director
Above: Matías Piñeiro's The Princess of France
Concorso Internazionale (Official Competition)
A Blast (Syllas Tzoumerkas, Greece/Germany/Netherlands)
Alive (Jungbum Park, South Korea)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa,...
- 7/25/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
13 of the 17 films competing for the Golden Leopard are world premieres; Juliette Binoche to receive Excellence Award.
Full details of the line-up for the 67th Locarno Film Festival, which runs August 6-16, were unveiled at a press conference in the Swiss capital Berne today.
13 of the 17 films competing for the Golden Leopard in the festival’s International Competition section are world premiers including Syllas Tzoumerkas’s A Blast [pictured], Jungbum Park’s Alive (South Korea), Paul Vecchiali’s White Nights On The Pier (France) and Yury Bykov’s The Fool (Russia). International premieres include Alex Ross Perry’s hotly antipated Us comedy Listen Up Philip starring Jason Schwartzman who is expected to attend.
The Piazza Grande line-up includes the international premieres of Eran Riklis’ Dancing Arabs, Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ critically acclaimed Iceland set Land Ho! Which world premiered at Sundance, and Olivier Assayas’ Clouds Of Sils Maria, which played in competition in Cannes. World premieres...
Full details of the line-up for the 67th Locarno Film Festival, which runs August 6-16, were unveiled at a press conference in the Swiss capital Berne today.
13 of the 17 films competing for the Golden Leopard in the festival’s International Competition section are world premiers including Syllas Tzoumerkas’s A Blast [pictured], Jungbum Park’s Alive (South Korea), Paul Vecchiali’s White Nights On The Pier (France) and Yury Bykov’s The Fool (Russia). International premieres include Alex Ross Perry’s hotly antipated Us comedy Listen Up Philip starring Jason Schwartzman who is expected to attend.
The Piazza Grande line-up includes the international premieres of Eran Riklis’ Dancing Arabs, Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ critically acclaimed Iceland set Land Ho! Which world premiered at Sundance, and Olivier Assayas’ Clouds Of Sils Maria, which played in competition in Cannes. World premieres...
- 7/16/2014
- by sarah.cooper@screendaily.com (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
We've only recently begun dusting off the Best Original Song contenders section and filling it out with prospective players in the upcoming Oscar race (though the ranking is arbitrary for the moment). You can bet the wonderful "Lost Stars" from "Begin Again" will be a force, and I imagine Stephen Sondheim's original offerings for "Into the Woods" will be in play, too. But another song that deserves to be in the thick of it is "Land Ho!," Keegan DeWitt's title track from Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz's Sundance sensation. Inspired by songs like Go West's "The King of Wishful Thinking," Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy" and Terence Trent D'Arby's "Wishing Well," as well as films like "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," DeWitt set out to craft something that felt of another time. It's tongue-in-cheek, but it still gets at the heart of the movie,...
- 7/15/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Exclusive: Filming in the Hollywood Hills has wrapped on The Invitation, the latest feature from Girlfight‘s Sundance award-winner Karyn Kusama and the helmer’s first since 2009′s Jennifer’s Body. It’s also the second feature to be backed by femme-focused Gamechanger Films, the film fund established last year to finance narrative features helmed by women in an effort to equalize gender disparity in film. The first Gamechanger project, road tripper Land Ho! co-directed by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, sold out of Sundance in January. Sony Classics opened the pic on Friday. Gamechanger financed The Invitation with Lege Artis, with Gamechanger’s Mynette […]...
- 7/14/2014
- Deadline
What to see, or not to see? That is the question this weekend. From theaters to VOD and set-top streaming alternatives, here's what we recommend. In Theaters: Boyhood (limited release) Dir. Richard Linklater, USA | IFC Films Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette 100% Fresh | Our rave review, roundup, interview with Linklater and the actors Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (wide release) Dir. Matt Reeves, USA | 20th Century Fox Cast: Jason Clarke, Keri Russell, Gary Oldman, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis 91% Fresh | Our review and interviews with Matt Reeves and Andy Serkis Land Ho! (limited release) Dirs. Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens | Sony Pictures Classics Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson 71% Fresh | Our video interview with Eenhoorn and Nelson New to Streaming: Snowpiercer (limited release and now on VOD) Dir. Bong Joon-ho | RADiUS-twc Cast: Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Alison Pill, Octavia Spencer 94%...
- 7/11/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
It's a good weekend for catching up on Sundance highlights, big and small. Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" is, of course, the film on everybody's lips at the moment — and deservedly so — but that's no reason to ignore a more modest independent tale of growing up and growing out, albeit at a slightly different age. Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens' droll, laid-back comedy "Land Ho!" is the first collaboration between the two writer-directors, each one with a handful of delicately formed micro-indies behind them, and it is itself a story of an unexpected partnership: the plot centers on two drifting retirees, formerly in-laws, whose friendship is tested and deepened over the course of a spontaneous road trip through Iceland. It's the kind of premise that, on paper, could signify treacly hijinks in the vein of "The Bucket List" or "Grumpy Old Men," but Katz and Stephens' film is far subtler...
- 7/11/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, two graduates of the North Carolina School of the Arts, join forces to direct Land Ho!, a comedy which follows two former brothers-in-law, Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) and Colin (Paul Eenhorn), as they go on vacation to Iceland in an effort to reclaim their youth.
Both men are getting over some unsuccessful relationships and are frustrated with their jobs, so their hope is that they can escape the isolation they feel by going to a foreign country. What results is both hilarious and heartfelt and will no doubt leave moviegoers with a smile on their face.
Last week, Martha and Aaron were at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, California for the Land Ho! press day, and I landed an exclusive interview with the duo. They spoke about how they spilt up the directorial duties while shooting, what it was like filming in Iceland (which,...
Both men are getting over some unsuccessful relationships and are frustrated with their jobs, so their hope is that they can escape the isolation they feel by going to a foreign country. What results is both hilarious and heartfelt and will no doubt leave moviegoers with a smile on their face.
Last week, Martha and Aaron were at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, California for the Land Ho! press day, and I landed an exclusive interview with the duo. They spoke about how they spilt up the directorial duties while shooting, what it was like filming in Iceland (which,...
- 7/11/2014
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
Sporting their own traditional Icelandic sweater (known as the lopapeysa), I had the chance to sit down with Land Ho! creative pair Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz the day after they had their rousing world premiere screening. 48 hours later, Sony Pictures Classics announced that they picked the domestic rights to the buddy (perfect wingman) comedy. In the video interview below, we discuss topics such as writing visual comedy, insertion of non-scripted moments complementing a screenplay that is heavy on naturalism. We also discuss the multi-generation stance, ageism and of course the role of the setting and title cards. ...
- 7/10/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz might have made a strong case for working in twos: as a tandem in both the directing and screenwriting departments and by working with a pair of co-leads. In Land Ho! (Sony Pictures Classics – 07.11), This Is Martin Bonner‘s Paul Eenhoorn (Trading Card Series Profile #14) and Earl Lynn Nelson (Trading Card Series Profile #7) initially come across as a contrasting pair of retirement-aged misfits deeply set in their ways, but a little road-tripping exploration of the earth and parallel exploration of self in a volcanic setting demonstrates that the dynamics of this bromance are in continual flux. It was at a rowdy post world premiere screening Q&A at Park City’s Library Centre where the Stephens/Katz, Eenhoorn/Nelson and crew fielded questions about the directing style, film pop culture references and the unique scape. Here’s our video footage:...
- 7/10/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Land Ho! is a How Grandpa Got His Groove Back for the geezer set, a buddy road trip through Iceland, starring two divorced men with a combined age of 150 years. The writer-directors, Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, are 30 and 34, respectively, young enough to be their leading men’s grandchildren but just old enough to empathize with their wrinkles. Ringleader Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) is a rich, reluctantly retired doctor who fancies himself the Joe Francis of septuagenarians. (And his taste in women doesn't skew much older.) As for the polite but prickly Colin (Paul Eenhoorn, the late-blooming talent of This is Martin Bonner), he’s aware that he’s merely a freeloading passenger in Mitch’s mission but quickly shakes off any guilt about his companions...
- 7/9/2014
- Village Voice
He began as an anonymous newcomer to the Sundance Film Festival, a white-topped mountain of a man who blended in with the natural scenery more than the red carpets upon which he was walking. On Sunday, 72-year-old Earl Lynn Nelson was featured in the New York Times‘ arts section after a weeks-long press tour in New York and Los Angeles. Tomorrow, he'll be performing eye surgery in Kentucky, hardly worried that his debut as a leading man in a major motion picture, Stephens and Aaron Katz's “Land Ho!,” will hit the big screen via Sony Pictures Classics. Also read: Sundance: Sony Pictures Classics.
- 7/8/2014
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Wrap
Land Ho! is one of the more amusing and thoughtful films to release during the 2014 summer movie season. It stars Earl Lynn Nelson and Paul Eenhoorn as a pair of ex-brother-in-laws who were once close friends but ended up drifting apart through various circumstances. They find themselves dealing with aging and loneliness as their wives have long since left them, and in an effort to reclaim their youth, they decide to take a vacation together to Iceland. What looks like your typical odd couple road movie becomes an engrossing study of two people facing down their personal adversaries and regrets while taking in the amazing sights that Iceland has to offer.
It was truly a lot of fun talking with Earl Lynn and Paul when they were at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for the Land Ho! press day in Los Angeles, California last week. Like his character in the movie,...
It was truly a lot of fun talking with Earl Lynn and Paul when they were at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for the Land Ho! press day in Los Angeles, California last week. Like his character in the movie,...
- 7/8/2014
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
Title: Land Ho! Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: B Director: Martha Stephens, Aaron Katz Screenplay: Martha Stephens, Aaron Katz Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson, Karrie Crouse, Elizabeth McKee, Alice Olivia Clarke, Emmsje Gauti Screened at: Sony, NYC, 5/28/14 Opens: July 11, 2014 You probably heard the advice “Travel while you’re young. You have the energy, and once you get kids, you’ll have to put off long trips for many years to come.” There is some truth in this: of course you have more energy when you’re 20 than when you’re 60, and traveling with young kids or teens can be [ Read More ]
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- 7/7/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
I have to give Land Ho! credit, because seniors typically don’t get their shot at proper road trip comedies. It’s always frisky teens searching for sexual nirvana, or boyfriends trying to save their relationship – but what about a couple of grey-haired grandpas rekindling their friendship abroad? Just because their bedtime might be on the early side doesn’t mean these two silver foxes can’t rage it up American Pie style – but that’s a completely different movie.
While this is Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ show, serving as joint writers and directors, Executive Producer David Gordon Green’s influence can be felt throughout – almost as an homage to his indie workings. Land Ho! is the unlikeliest of buddy comedies, but just like Gordon Green’s Prince Avalance, this natural adventure was missing a certain sense of enjoyable establishment – sufficent for some, but problematic for others.
Earl Lynn...
While this is Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ show, serving as joint writers and directors, Executive Producer David Gordon Green’s influence can be felt throughout – almost as an homage to his indie workings. Land Ho! is the unlikeliest of buddy comedies, but just like Gordon Green’s Prince Avalance, this natural adventure was missing a certain sense of enjoyable establishment – sufficent for some, but problematic for others.
Earl Lynn...
- 7/7/2014
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Land Ho! – Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens
Limited Release – July 11th
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Awards & Fests: Announced as a sleeper hit acquisition at the Sundance Film Fest (there is nothing sleeper about this gem) by Sony Pictures Classics, this was picked up smack-dab during its premiere week. So far, this has traveled to both coasts with showings at Tribeca and Laff.
What the critic’s are saying?: Like most critics, Variety’s Justin Chang recognized the power of two identifying “pitch-perfect turns from Paul Eenhoorn and relative newcomer Earl Lynn Nelson, but also a seamless writing-directing collaboration between rising indie helmers Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz.” Indiewire’s Eric Kohn points out how it manages to avoid certain trappings found in the subgenres, “Indie road trip comedies are perhaps the worst cliché of low budget American filmmaking, but “Land Ho!,” the story of two aging men on a meandering vacation in Iceland,...
Limited Release – July 11th
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Awards & Fests: Announced as a sleeper hit acquisition at the Sundance Film Fest (there is nothing sleeper about this gem) by Sony Pictures Classics, this was picked up smack-dab during its premiere week. So far, this has traveled to both coasts with showings at Tribeca and Laff.
What the critic’s are saying?: Like most critics, Variety’s Justin Chang recognized the power of two identifying “pitch-perfect turns from Paul Eenhoorn and relative newcomer Earl Lynn Nelson, but also a seamless writing-directing collaboration between rising indie helmers Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz.” Indiewire’s Eric Kohn points out how it manages to avoid certain trappings found in the subgenres, “Indie road trip comedies are perhaps the worst cliché of low budget American filmmaking, but “Land Ho!,” the story of two aging men on a meandering vacation in Iceland,...
- 7/1/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
By no means another Grumpy Old Men rehash, Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz’s Land Ho! is presented with the utmost level of realism, relishing in the everyday moments of these two average men who are presumably being played by variations of the actors themselves, Paul Eenhoorn and Earl Lynn Nelson. Coming from these two young writer-directors, Land Ho! is a surprisingly contemplative meditation on the social concerns of seniors, specifically in relation to aging and marginalization. As if Land Ho! is psychological experiment masterminded by Stephens and Katz, Eenhoorn and Nelson are placed in a variety of situations as the camera unobtrusively observes whatever happens, allowing them to interact directly with their natural surroundings, which often prompts the two aging gents to react with childish glee. Everyone -- and I mean Everyone -- needs to see Land Ho! when it is released by Sony Pictures Classics on July 11th.
- 5/22/2014
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Earlier this year, indie champs Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz presented their own unique spin on the road trip comedy at Sundance. Now we have the first trailer for their co-directorial project, "Land Ho!," a comedy about two men who take a trip to Iceland to try and reclaim their youth. Read More: Meet the 2014 Sundance Filmmakers #20: Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens Team Up for Iceland-Based Comedy 'Land Ho!' In the trailer we're introduced to two lifelong friends (who happen to be ex-brothers-in-law) who decide to spontaneously take a trip to Iceland. It's a sweet and gentle-looking indie, one that looks at the relationship that exists between two men who have already lived much of their lives, but still have so much left to experience. "Land Ho!" stars Paul Eenhoorn and Early Lynn Nelson and will be released in theaters on July 11. ...
- 5/16/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
One of the best comedies from the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was undoubtedly Land Ho! In what's probably the funniest geriatric comedy since Grumpy Old Men, the film follows two ex-brothers-in-law (Paul Eenhoorn & Earl Lynn Nelson) adventuring through Iceland, meeting an interesting assembly of characters and learning more about each other along the way. Not only is the film laugh-out-loud funny, but it has gorgeous scenery shot on location all over the beautiful country. This is absolutely an indie treasure, and it's one you can enjoy with the whole family, especially your grandparents. Watch! Here's the first trailer for Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz's Land Ho!, originally from Apple: Land Ho! is written and directed by Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz. A pair of 60-something ex-brothers-in-law (Paul Eenhoorn & Earl Lynn Nelson) sets off on a road trip through Iceland, hoping to reclaim their youth. Their picturesque adventures, from trendy Reykjavík to the rugged outback,...
- 5/16/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
While Christopher Nolan’s co-opted eyeballs with the trailer to what is sure to be another portentous sci-fi jaunt, a nice tonic is to be found in this glimpse of Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ Sundance charmer, Land Ho! Paul Eenhoorn and Earl Lynn Nelson star as a couple of ex-brother-in-laws who take to Reykjavik to “get their groove back.” Damping down the epiphanies and life crises that accompany most riffs on the road movie, Land Ho! finds its subtle grace in situational hilarity. Sony Pictures Classics will release the film stateside on July 11.
- 5/16/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
While Christopher Nolan’s co-opted eyeballs with the trailer to what is sure to be another portentous sci-fi jaunt, a nice tonic is to be found in this glimpse of Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ Sundance charmer, Land Ho! Paul Eenhoorn and Earl Lynn Nelson star as a couple of ex-brother-in-laws who take to Reykjavik to “get their groove back.” Damping down the epiphanies and life crises that accompany most riffs on the road movie, Land Ho! finds its subtle grace in situational hilarity. Sony Pictures Classics will release the film stateside on July 11.
- 5/16/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Tribeca coverage with Glenn on the latest from Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff, Wendy & Lucy)
“Reserved, even by Kelly Reichardt’s standards.” That was the line I used to describe this Portland director’s latest, Night Moves, after its screening at Tribeca. Having premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, it’s understandable that it didn’t make all that much noise in the intermediate months given it’s such a quiet, guarded film despite its eco-thriller roots and name cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard. Like all of Reichardt’s films, however, it is that very low-key ingredient that makes it memorable. While it doesn’t soar to the breathtaking heights of Meek’s Cutoff, which just like Night Moves took a genre prone to testosterone-filled violence and twisted it into a elegant mood piece, her latest is a surprisingly thrilling experience even when its...
“Reserved, even by Kelly Reichardt’s standards.” That was the line I used to describe this Portland director’s latest, Night Moves, after its screening at Tribeca. Having premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival, it’s understandable that it didn’t make all that much noise in the intermediate months given it’s such a quiet, guarded film despite its eco-thriller roots and name cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard. Like all of Reichardt’s films, however, it is that very low-key ingredient that makes it memorable. While it doesn’t soar to the breathtaking heights of Meek’s Cutoff, which just like Night Moves took a genre prone to testosterone-filled violence and twisted it into a elegant mood piece, her latest is a surprisingly thrilling experience even when its...
- 4/24/2014
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
l - r Filmmakers Aaron Katz, Megan Griffiths, Adam Rapp, Amy Berg and Stephen Belber with moderator Mark Adams Tribeca Talks: Adaptation & Creation Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On a sunny afternoon during the Tribeca Film Festival, directors Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them, starring Toni Collette and Thomas Haden Church); Aaron Katz (Land Ho!); Amy Berg (Every Secret Thing with Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning and Nate Parker); Adam Rapp (Loitering With Intent with Marisa Tomei and Sam Rockwell) and Stephen Belber (Match, starring Patrick Stewart), gathered for a Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper - Adaptation & Creation panel.
Sidney Lumet's Twelve Angry Men, Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Uli Edel's Last Exit To Brooklyn, Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story and Dead Man Walking, directed by Tim Robbins, were cited as important adaptations of literary works to cinema. And Whit Stillman writing...
On a sunny afternoon during the Tribeca Film Festival, directors Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them, starring Toni Collette and Thomas Haden Church); Aaron Katz (Land Ho!); Amy Berg (Every Secret Thing with Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning and Nate Parker); Adam Rapp (Loitering With Intent with Marisa Tomei and Sam Rockwell) and Stephen Belber (Match, starring Patrick Stewart), gathered for a Tribeca Talks: Pen to Paper - Adaptation & Creation panel.
Sidney Lumet's Twelve Angry Men, Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Uli Edel's Last Exit To Brooklyn, Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story and Dead Man Walking, directed by Tim Robbins, were cited as important adaptations of literary works to cinema. And Whit Stillman writing...
- 4/20/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sony Pictures Classics has given a day-and-date to Sundance acquisition "Land Ho!," Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens' buzzy Icelandic road trip comedy out of the Park City fest. The film will have a limited release in NY and La on July 11. Before then, it's scheduled for screenings at Tribeca and the La Film Festival. Here's the official synopsis:Feeling disenchanted with life after retirement, Mitch, a brassy former surgeon, convinces mild-mannered Colin, his ex-brother-in-law, to holiday with him in Iceland. The pair set off through Reykjavik ice bars, trendy spas, and adventurous restaurants in an attempt to reclaim their youth, but they quickly discover that you can’t escape yourself, no matter how far you travel.Land Ho! is a bawdy road-trip comedy as well as a candid exploration of aging, loneliness, and friendship. Iceland's vast and haunting landscapes—moss-coated cliffs, fog-shrouded mountains, geothermal pools, and otherworldly Northern Lights—form a primordial Eden.
- 4/7/2014
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sony Pictures Classics will give the bawdy road trip comedy “Land Ho!” a limited release in New York and Los Angeles on July 11, the studio said Monday. Written and directed by Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, “Land Ho!” stars Paul Eenhoorn and newcomer Earl Lynn Nelson, and follows a pair of retirees who set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth through Reykjavik nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. See photos: 49 Summer Movies on Our Radar: From ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ to Tina Fey's Next Comedy “Land Ho!” is produced by Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy, and Christina Jennings,...
- 4/7/2014
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that it will release Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz.s Land Ho! on July 11 in New York and Los Angeles, followed by openings nationwide. Additionally, Land Ho! will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival in April and the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. The film made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Starring Paul Eenhoorn ( This is Martin Bonner ) and newcomer Earl Lynn Nelson, Land Ho! follows a pair of retirees who set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth through Reykjavik nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. A bawdy road trip comedy, Land Ho! , is produced by Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy, and Christina Jennings, and executive produced by David Gordon Green, and Julie Parker...
- 4/7/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Above: German poster for Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Resnais, France, 1961), artist: Tostmann.
Over the past three months of Movie Poster of the Day, the two most popular posters by far were two beautiful (each in their own very distinct way) posters that I posted in memoriam of two dearly departed auteurs: Alan Resnais and Harold Ramis. And two other posters among the most popular (i.e. most liked or reblogged) were those posted in celebration of Philip Seymour Hoffman, including Chris Ware’s lovely 2007 design for The Savages, one of my favorite posters of last decade. So, if nothing else, Movie Poster of the Day has recorded the saddest losses of the year. (Not forgetting the adorable Swedish poster I posted for Shirley Temple which didn’t make the Top 20.)
I’m happy to see a number of new posters here: a very popular Dutch Wolf of Wall Street,...
Over the past three months of Movie Poster of the Day, the two most popular posters by far were two beautiful (each in their own very distinct way) posters that I posted in memoriam of two dearly departed auteurs: Alan Resnais and Harold Ramis. And two other posters among the most popular (i.e. most liked or reblogged) were those posted in celebration of Philip Seymour Hoffman, including Chris Ware’s lovely 2007 design for The Savages, one of my favorite posters of last decade. So, if nothing else, Movie Poster of the Day has recorded the saddest losses of the year. (Not forgetting the adorable Swedish poster I posted for Shirley Temple which didn’t make the Top 20.)
I’m happy to see a number of new posters here: a very popular Dutch Wolf of Wall Street,...
- 4/4/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Struggles of young New Yorkers have provided fodder for countless portraits of urban angst that vainly strive to reach for the tropes of Woody Allen. "Wild Canaries" has all the markings of this formula, but makes some admirable attempts to shake it up by stuffing the usual routine into a detective story. If the "Scooby-Doo" gang grew up and moved into a cramped Manhattan apartment building, they might resemble the oddball characters populating director Lawrence Michael Levine's bubbly murder mystery, in which the ultimate solution to the whodunit scenario matters less than the wily energy its characters bring to uncovering the puzzle. "Wild Canaries" exists somewhere on the spectrum between Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye" and Aaron Katz's "Cold Weather:" Moody protagonists, swept up in the aimless flow of their lives, seek escape from its monotonous rhythms. As Noah, Levine plays the self-involved fiancé to the much younger Barri (Sophia Takal,...
- 3/9/2014
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Updated: We continue to add to our ongoing deal tally out of Sundance (which wrapped January 26). While the buys haven't been high-end, they've been steady. So, who's bought what? A breakdown of companies and numbers of buys, below.Sony Pictures Classics (4 buys): The latest Spc grab of the Sundance Film Festival is "Infinitely Polar Bear," starring Mark Ruffalo as an eccentric mess of a father in the 1970s. Spc also snapped up worldwide rights to fest opener and prize-winner "Whiplash," starring Miles Teller as a talented drummer driven to near insanity by a cruel music academy teacher (J.K. Simmons). Spc secured various rights to Ira Sachs' "Love is Strange," starring John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as an aging gay couple in New York who get married --with unfortunate consequences. And they also nabbed worldwide rights to Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz’s Iceland road trip buddy comedy "Land Ho!
- 2/5/2014
- by Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Paradise Lost
Director: Andrea Di Stefano
Writer: Andrea Di Stefano
Producer: Dimitri Rassam
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Carlos Bardem, Brady Corbet, Ana Girardot, Claudia Traisac
Now working with the shortened, not to be confused with the Joe Berlinger series title, actor-turned-first time helmer Andrea Di Stefano’s Paradise Lost looks like it could side step traditional biopic terrain, skipping tedious fact-based details for a free-spirited template. We’re thinking that the film’s colorful backdrop, and acting clout presence from the highly selective Del Toro and a Brady Corbet (featured several times on our Top 200 list) could be parlayed into a unique look into what on paper comes across as the fear of god (aka Pablo Escobar) being drilled into the not so impressionable youth with a visual summary of the kinds of treasures the Escobar estate were afforded with their export business.
Director: Andrea Di Stefano
Writer: Andrea Di Stefano
Producer: Dimitri Rassam
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Carlos Bardem, Brady Corbet, Ana Girardot, Claudia Traisac
Now working with the shortened, not to be confused with the Joe Berlinger series title, actor-turned-first time helmer Andrea Di Stefano’s Paradise Lost looks like it could side step traditional biopic terrain, skipping tedious fact-based details for a free-spirited template. We’re thinking that the film’s colorful backdrop, and acting clout presence from the highly selective Del Toro and a Brady Corbet (featured several times on our Top 200 list) could be parlayed into a unique look into what on paper comes across as the fear of god (aka Pablo Escobar) being drilled into the not so impressionable youth with a visual summary of the kinds of treasures the Escobar estate were afforded with their export business.
- 2/3/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Land Ho!
Directors: Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz
Writers: Stephens and Katz
Producers: Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy, Christina Jennings
Exec. Producers: David Gordon Green, Julie Parker Benello, Dan Cogan, Geralyn Dreyfous, Wendy Ettinger
U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson, Karrie Crouse, Elizabeth McKee, Alice Olivia Clarke, Emmsjé Gauti
Delivering career bests with the unlikeliest of gems with a septuagenarian, buddy dramedy that utilizes portions of the road-trip template, wunderkinds Martha Stephens (Pilgrim Song fame) and Aaron Katz (Cold Weather fame) Land Ho! is perhaps the best title to set sail with our top 200 list. Swooning auds at the world premiere screening at the Library theatre in Park City, ostensibly this works from a matter-of-factly devised idea but firmly validated a pair of points: singular voices can creatively offer strong samples when paired and, U.S indie spirit works comfortably outside the U.S. borders.
Directors: Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz
Writers: Stephens and Katz
Producers: Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy, Christina Jennings
Exec. Producers: David Gordon Green, Julie Parker Benello, Dan Cogan, Geralyn Dreyfous, Wendy Ettinger
U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson, Karrie Crouse, Elizabeth McKee, Alice Olivia Clarke, Emmsjé Gauti
Delivering career bests with the unlikeliest of gems with a septuagenarian, buddy dramedy that utilizes portions of the road-trip template, wunderkinds Martha Stephens (Pilgrim Song fame) and Aaron Katz (Cold Weather fame) Land Ho! is perhaps the best title to set sail with our top 200 list. Swooning auds at the world premiere screening at the Library theatre in Park City, ostensibly this works from a matter-of-factly devised idea but firmly validated a pair of points: singular voices can creatively offer strong samples when paired and, U.S indie spirit works comfortably outside the U.S. borders.
- 2/3/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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