"You got a scoop?" Samuel Goldwyn has debuted a trailer for an indie drama titled Burn Country, which premiered at Tribeca earlier this year. The film is a fictional feature version of a real-life story of a "fixer" journalist from Afghanistan who decides to move to a town on the coast in Northern California. However, once he begins working at a newspaper there he gets drawn into the strange "backwoods of this small town", stumbling into local corruption and other dangers. Iranian actor Dominic Rains stars as Osman, and the cast includes Melissa Leo, James Franco, Rachel Brosnahan, Thomas Jay Ryan, Tim Kniffin, and James Oliver Wheatley. This looks damn good, like it offers a unique perspective not often seen on film. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Ian Olds' Burn Country, originally from EW.com: After being exiled from Afghanistan, a former war journalist (Dominic Rains) who...
- 10/25/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The slow-burning indie thriller The Fixer opens on a woman speaking intense Polish, while a naked man strapped to a wheel rolls slowly away behind her. As the camera rises, we realize that this is a play being performed for a tiny audience in a small-town theatre – most of them obviously perplexed by what’s happening in front of them. Then the camera hones in on the face of Osman (Dominic Rains), his face gradually splitting into an ecstatic, fascinated grin. Such is the tone of The Fixer, a movie that uses a thriller’s mechanisms to examine American culture and society through the eyes of an outsider.
Osman is an Afghani journalist who used to work as a “fixer” for Western journalists, guiding them through the complex society of Afghanistan in pursuit of their stories. Now he’s immigrated to a small Californian town with the help of his friend Gabe,...
Osman is an Afghani journalist who used to work as a “fixer” for Western journalists, guiding them through the complex society of Afghanistan in pursuit of their stories. Now he’s immigrated to a small Californian town with the help of his friend Gabe,...
- 4/20/2016
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
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