Dia Sokol’s “Sorry, Thanks” has such keen insight into human behavior that its accuracy almost seems like pure luck. Based around the confused, occasionally self-destructive behavior of several young people in San Francisco’s Mission District, it deals with relationship issues and wandering youth disillusionment through lightly engaging scenes that gradually develop a dramatic edge. Charismatic Max (Wiley Wiggins) grows confused about his relationship with his steady girlfriend (Ia Hernandez) when the …...
- 3/16/2009
- Indiewire
For good reasons — like the fact that all of Joe Swanberg's features have played here — the annual South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, has a reputation as the adopted home of mumblecore. The dreaded M-word is used more and more negatively these days, but any term that labels films as diverse as Frownland, Lol, and Mutual Appreciation is a coinage looking for a definition. It was bound to fizzle at some point.
The terminology may be disintegrating, but the filmmakers behind these movies are still collaborating and still growing. This year, Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation) is back with his third feature, Beeswax, and Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs) is back with Alexander the Last. Swanberg's film features (among others) Justin Rice who starred in Bujalski's previous film, and the wardrobe is credited to Ry Russo-Young, whose latest film You Wont Miss Me played...
The terminology may be disintegrating, but the filmmakers behind these movies are still collaborating and still growing. This year, Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha, Mutual Appreciation) is back with his third feature, Beeswax, and Joe Swanberg (Hannah Takes the Stairs) is back with Alexander the Last. Swanberg's film features (among others) Justin Rice who starred in Bujalski's previous film, and the wardrobe is credited to Ry Russo-Young, whose latest film You Wont Miss Me played...
- 3/16/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Sorry, Thanks is the directorial debut of Dia Sokol, the producer of films by Andrew Bujalski, Alex Karpovsky and Joe Swanberg; it stars Bujalski and a cast of largely non-actors; it was shot by Matthias Grunsky, the cinematographer of both Mutual Appreciation and Nights and Weekends. The sum total of these names and titles point in a certain trajectory of recent American film, one which need not be named by name to anyone who recognizes these references. But Sorry, Thanks equally reminds of the indie films of the 90s, the kind of low budget but fully realized ensemble films that, if you didn’t see at Sundance, you’ve seen hundreds of times on the Sundance channel, the kind that slowly and cumulatively but surely turned character actors like Sam Rockwell and Catherine Keener into something like stars. Sorry, Thanks, a uniquely moral film but also a ve ...
- 3/14/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
On the other end of the phone line, first time feature director though veteran film and television producer Dia Sokol admits that she’s more than a bit nervous for this interview about her naturalistic “anti-chemistry, unromantic comedy” debut Sorry, Thanks. “This never used to happen to me. As a producer, I’d listen to directors fumble their way through describing their films, and I’ve always jumped in and been the person to sell it, to be articulate about it, and now I totally get it,” she says. “When it’s your film, you’re totally inarticulate about it; it comes from inside of you, so you have no perspective.” Starring a mixed cast of ...
- 3/12/2009
- by Noralil Ryan Fores
- Spout
Cinematical has just received this exclusive clip from Sorry, Thanks, which will enjoy its premiere this month at the South By Southwest Film Festival. Directed by Dia Sokol, Sorry, Thanks stars our man Wiley Wiggins (Dazed and Confused) as a guy who has a one-night-stand while in a committed relationship ... and all the fun, complicated stuff that arises from that one encounter. The film also stars Kenya Miles and Andrew Bujalski.
I've seen Sorry, Thanks, and can vouch for its cute, awkward humor -- but I'll also note that Wiggins totally steals the show. Why he's not doing more, I do not know; count me as someone who'd love to see Wiggins pop up on the big screen at least a thousand times per year. But anyway, yeah, check out the clip below (which comes from one of my favorite scenes of the film).
Sorry, Thanks is set to take...
I've seen Sorry, Thanks, and can vouch for its cute, awkward humor -- but I'll also note that Wiggins totally steals the show. Why he's not doing more, I do not know; count me as someone who'd love to see Wiggins pop up on the big screen at least a thousand times per year. But anyway, yeah, check out the clip below (which comes from one of my favorite scenes of the film).
Sorry, Thanks is set to take...
- 3/5/2009
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
The feature film lineup for next month's South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in Austin, Texas has been announced and trailers have started to come out of the woodwork. This will be just my second fest but, based on last year, I can't wait. The first two are world premieres playing in the Emerging Visions showcase
Sorry, Thanks (pictured). "Good luck leading with your heart, when your heart is an utter emotional idiot." Dia Sokol's feature debut follows the travails of a woman "reeling from a brutal breakup" who has a one-night stand with a "charming, disheveled wreck" who -- oops! -- has a long-term girlfriend. Andrew Bujalski also stars. Check out the trailer at the official site, which is a bit goofy and a bit wistful, two qualities that are essential for any relationship / "where is my life heading?" movie. Plus, it has the uber-cool and understated Wiley Wiggins as the "disheveled wreck,...
Sorry, Thanks (pictured). "Good luck leading with your heart, when your heart is an utter emotional idiot." Dia Sokol's feature debut follows the travails of a woman "reeling from a brutal breakup" who has a one-night stand with a "charming, disheveled wreck" who -- oops! -- has a long-term girlfriend. Andrew Bujalski also stars. Check out the trailer at the official site, which is a bit goofy and a bit wistful, two qualities that are essential for any relationship / "where is my life heading?" movie. Plus, it has the uber-cool and understated Wiley Wiggins as the "disheveled wreck,...
- 2/10/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
In our continuing series to preview some of the little indies (or what some people would call “real independent films”) that will be playing at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival, I give you the trailer for mumblecore producer (Mutual Appreciation, Nights and Weekends) Dia Sokol’s feature directorial debut Sorry, Thanks.
As someone who lives in San Francisco, it’s always great to see some low budget films coming out of the bay area. Last year SXSW brought us Medicine For Melancholy, a “love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.” Sorry, Thanks is also a relationship film but with a mumblecore ensemble comedy slant. Read more and watch the trailer after the jump.
Click Here to Watch the Video
Here is the official plot synopsis:
“It’S All Fun And Games Until...
As someone who lives in San Francisco, it’s always great to see some low budget films coming out of the bay area. Last year SXSW brought us Medicine For Melancholy, a “love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.” Sorry, Thanks is also a relationship film but with a mumblecore ensemble comedy slant. Read more and watch the trailer after the jump.
Click Here to Watch the Video
Here is the official plot synopsis:
“It’S All Fun And Games Until...
- 2/4/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
The lineup for the 2009 SXSW Film Festival is now out, and pasted in full after the jump. First skim highlights: Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax, which will world premiere in a matter of days in Berlin. Sorry, Thanks, directed by Dia Sokol (producer of Mutual Appreciation and Nights and Weekends), and starring Wiley Wiggins and Bujalski. New features by both Joe Swanberg (Alexander the Last, starring Jess Weixler, Justin Rice and Barlow Jacobs) and Kris Swanberg (It Was Great, But I Was Ready To Come Home, screening in Narrative Competition). Objectified, a new documentary by Helvetica director Gary Hustwit. True Adolescents, about ...
- 2/2/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
The lineup for the 2009 SXSW Film Festival is now out, and pasted in full after the jump. First skim highlights: Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax, which will world premiere in a matter of days in Berlin. Sorry, Thanks, directed by Dia Sokol (producer of Mutual Appreciation and Nights and Weekends), and starring Wiley Wiggins and Bujalski. New features by both Joe Swanberg (Alexander the Last, starring Jess Weixler, Justin Rice and Barlow Jacobs) and Kris Swanberg (It Was Great, But I Was Ready To Come Home, screening in Narrative Competition). Objectified, a new documentary by Helvetica director Gary Hustwit. True Adolescents, about ...
- 2/2/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
IFP handed out $130,000 in cash and in-kind prizes Thursday at its annual Independent Filmmaker Awards.
Joseph Cashiola received IFP's inaugural $50,000 Independent Filmmaker Lab Finishing Grant for his feature directorial debut, the drama "A Thing as Big as the Ocean."
Other awards at the ceremony hosted by Ally Sheedy and Kevin Corrigan included the $10,000 Adrienne Shelly Director's Grant given to Dia Sokol for her feature debut, "Sorry, Thanks." The Adrienne Shelly Foundation and Artists Public Domain funded the prize.
The $10,000 Kodak Grand Jury Screenwriting Prize went to Benjamin Bates for his "Walrus Eating Baloney," one of 150 works-in-progress in Independent Film Week's current Project Forum.
Another feature in the lineup, "The Promise of Freedom," earned filmmaker Beth Murphy the $10,000 Fledgling Fund Award for Socially Conscious Documentaries.
Eight other filmmakers won Panasonic Digital Filmmaking Grants. All winners were assigned producers as mentors, and each of the winning projects will be assigned a producing mentor.
Joseph Cashiola received IFP's inaugural $50,000 Independent Filmmaker Lab Finishing Grant for his feature directorial debut, the drama "A Thing as Big as the Ocean."
Other awards at the ceremony hosted by Ally Sheedy and Kevin Corrigan included the $10,000 Adrienne Shelly Director's Grant given to Dia Sokol for her feature debut, "Sorry, Thanks." The Adrienne Shelly Foundation and Artists Public Domain funded the prize.
The $10,000 Kodak Grand Jury Screenwriting Prize went to Benjamin Bates for his "Walrus Eating Baloney," one of 150 works-in-progress in Independent Film Week's current Project Forum.
Another feature in the lineup, "The Promise of Freedom," earned filmmaker Beth Murphy the $10,000 Fledgling Fund Award for Socially Conscious Documentaries.
Eight other filmmakers won Panasonic Digital Filmmaking Grants. All winners were assigned producers as mentors, and each of the winning projects will be assigned a producing mentor.
- 9/18/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- IFP has selected 11 narrative films for its 2008 Independent Filmmaker Lab, and announced an inaugural $50,000 Independent Filmmaker Finishing Grant for one of the projects.
The filmmakers will be mentored by such indie vets as Chris Eyre ("Smoke Signals"), Rob Hardy, Peter Phok and Susan Stover, then participate in the June 10-13 lab with producers Gretchen McGowan, Scott Macaulay and others.
They will receive advice on technical, creative, and postproduction issues, and one project will be given the $50,000 grant (from an Anonymous Donor) at the IFP's juried Independent Filmmaker Awards ceremony in September. Female lab participants are also eligible for the $10,000 Adrienne Shelly Director's Grant.
Spanish, Arabic, Tagalog, and Kashmiri-language films are included in this year's lineup. The eleven-film slate includes Ricky Shane Reid's "At the Foot of the Tree", Dia Sokol's "Sorry, Thanks" and David Lowery's "St. Nick". The Narrative Lab will be held at Soho House in Manhattan.
The filmmakers will be mentored by such indie vets as Chris Eyre ("Smoke Signals"), Rob Hardy, Peter Phok and Susan Stover, then participate in the June 10-13 lab with producers Gretchen McGowan, Scott Macaulay and others.
They will receive advice on technical, creative, and postproduction issues, and one project will be given the $50,000 grant (from an Anonymous Donor) at the IFP's juried Independent Filmmaker Awards ceremony in September. Female lab participants are also eligible for the $10,000 Adrienne Shelly Director's Grant.
Spanish, Arabic, Tagalog, and Kashmiri-language films are included in this year's lineup. The eleven-film slate includes Ricky Shane Reid's "At the Foot of the Tree", Dia Sokol's "Sorry, Thanks" and David Lowery's "St. Nick". The Narrative Lab will be held at Soho House in Manhattan.
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