Exclusive: Carly Hoogendyk has joined Omnipop Talent Group, the New York-headquartered management and production company known for its work with comedic multi-hyphenates, as a talent manager. She’ll be based out of the company’s West Coast office, there joining partners Bruce Smith and Zack Freedman.
Hoogendyk established her knack for identifying rising comedic talent as the editor of the Cramer Comedy Newsletter, an industry digest highlighting emerging comedic work across live, digital, film and animation. As a manager, she works with stand-ups, writers and actors. Clients joining her at Omnipop include Tallie Medel (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Addison Anderson (Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News) and Cody Wilkins (Call Me Kat).
Also an independent producer of live comedy, Hoogendyk began her career in digital marketing before going on to serve as comedy booker at Caveat during its first year on NY’s Lower East Side. She joined...
Hoogendyk established her knack for identifying rising comedic talent as the editor of the Cramer Comedy Newsletter, an industry digest highlighting emerging comedic work across live, digital, film and animation. As a manager, she works with stand-ups, writers and actors. Clients joining her at Omnipop include Tallie Medel (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Addison Anderson (Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News) and Cody Wilkins (Call Me Kat).
Also an independent producer of live comedy, Hoogendyk began her career in digital marketing before going on to serve as comedy booker at Caveat during its first year on NY’s Lower East Side. She joined...
- 1/2/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Champagne carpet officially rolled out at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood for the 95th Academy Awards, kicking off the final stretch of Oscar pre-parties and events as Hollywood gears up for March 12.
The food, beverages and décor of this year’s Governors Ball, the Academy’s official post-Oscars celebration, was revealed Tuesday at a press conference by Wolfgang Puck, who crafted this year’s menu with Eric Klein, VP of culinary at Wolfgang Puck Catering.
Nominees, winners and guests will be treated to a variety of tray-passed dishes, created by 120 chefs in the kitchen, from smoked salmon Oscars matzah and Wp signature pizzas to crispy Moroccan lamb cigars.
Related: Oscar Photos 2023: The Best Of The Red Carpet & Gala Ceremony
Elton John returned to hosting his annual 31st Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party on Sunday, March 12th and will be by joined by Eric McCormack and...
The food, beverages and décor of this year’s Governors Ball, the Academy’s official post-Oscars celebration, was revealed Tuesday at a press conference by Wolfgang Puck, who crafted this year’s menu with Eric Klein, VP of culinary at Wolfgang Puck Catering.
Nominees, winners and guests will be treated to a variety of tray-passed dishes, created by 120 chefs in the kitchen, from smoked salmon Oscars matzah and Wp signature pizzas to crispy Moroccan lamb cigars.
Related: Oscar Photos 2023: The Best Of The Red Carpet & Gala Ceremony
Elton John returned to hosting his annual 31st Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party on Sunday, March 12th and will be by joined by Eric McCormack and...
- 3/13/2023
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” cast insisted Brendan Fraser get in on their 2023 SAG Awards fun on Sunday night.
Before taking photographs with their many awards, the group were said to have seen Fraser stood nearby with his trophy looking overwhelmed, so made sure to invite him to join them, the Associated Press reported.
Fraser won Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role for his part in “The Whale”.
Read More: Stephanie Hsu Shares The Special Gift Jamie Lee Curtis Gave The ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Cast At 2023 SAG Awards
In backstage snaps, the star can be seen happily posing in between Harry Shum Jr., Brian Le, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Andy Le, Tallie Medel and Jenny Slate.
Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis at 2023 SAG Awards. Credit: Photo by Soul Brother/Shutterstock for SAG...
Before taking photographs with their many awards, the group were said to have seen Fraser stood nearby with his trophy looking overwhelmed, so made sure to invite him to join them, the Associated Press reported.
Fraser won Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role for his part in “The Whale”.
Read More: Stephanie Hsu Shares The Special Gift Jamie Lee Curtis Gave The ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Cast At 2023 SAG Awards
In backstage snaps, the star can be seen happily posing in between Harry Shum Jr., Brian Le, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Andy Le, Tallie Medel and Jenny Slate.
Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis at 2023 SAG Awards. Credit: Photo by Soul Brother/Shutterstock for SAG...
- 2/27/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
Exclusive: Tallie Medel, who can be seen in the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once, has signed with Stewart Talent for representation.
Medel plays Becky Sregor in Everything Everywhere, the girlfriend of Stephanie Hsu’s character Joy Wang. The film has been nominated for 11 Oscars, including best picture, and has been racking up award wins along the way. It most recently was honored at the DGA Awards Saturday, with writer/directors the Kwan brothers (Kwan and Scheinert) taking the top Best Theatrical Feature prize.
Also on the film side, Medel starred in 2020 indie feature The Carnivores, which premiered at SXSW.
Television credits include Broad City and The Special Without Brett Davis.
Medel is a co-founder of dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team, creators of the dance film Snowy Bing Bongs.
Medel is managed by Artists First.
Medel plays Becky Sregor in Everything Everywhere, the girlfriend of Stephanie Hsu’s character Joy Wang. The film has been nominated for 11 Oscars, including best picture, and has been racking up award wins along the way. It most recently was honored at the DGA Awards Saturday, with writer/directors the Kwan brothers (Kwan and Scheinert) taking the top Best Theatrical Feature prize.
Also on the film side, Medel starred in 2020 indie feature The Carnivores, which premiered at SXSW.
Television credits include Broad City and The Special Without Brett Davis.
Medel is a co-founder of dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team, creators of the dance film Snowy Bing Bongs.
Medel is managed by Artists First.
- 2/22/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Tallie Medel is an award winning actor, educator, artist, and one third of the legendary Cocoon Central Dance Team. Her fiercely authentic and nuanced performances in films like Dan Sallitt’s Fourteen have garnered attention from critics and audiences alike. This past year she gifted us with Becky in the acclaimed Everything Everywhere All At Once. In this episode, she talks about the communal environment on that production that benefited the performances, the importance of establishing true connection with her scene partners and using the present moment as a tool, how learning and teaching Clown has changed and shaped her work, […]
The post “You Have to Be Willing to Make a Fool of Yourself”: Tallie Medel first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “You Have to Be Willing to Make a Fool of Yourself”: Tallie Medel first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/10/2023
- by Peter Rinaldi
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Tallie Medel is an award winning actor, educator, artist, and one third of the legendary Cocoon Central Dance Team. Her fiercely authentic and nuanced performances in films like Dan Sallitt’s Fourteen have garnered attention from critics and audiences alike. This past year she gifted us with Becky in the acclaimed Everything Everywhere All At Once. In this episode, she talks about the communal environment on that production that benefited the performances, the importance of establishing true connection with her scene partners and using the present moment as a tool, how learning and teaching Clown has changed and shaped her work, […]
The post “You Have to Be Willing to Make a Fool of Yourself”: Tallie Medel first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “You Have to Be Willing to Make a Fool of Yourself”: Tallie Medel first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/10/2023
- by Peter Rinaldi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Stephanie Hsu has a whole heap of challenges to deal with in the Daniels’ hit Everything Everwhere All at Once. Not least of which is the infinite versions of her character she has to hold from scene to scene, from Joy, the disenfranchised daughter of Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn, through to Jobu Tupaki, an all-seeing, all-knowing supervillain who’s as hellbent on destroying the world as she is completely disinterested in bothering. Released in the Spring, the film has become that rarest of hits: firing up mainstream and indie audiences alike, and perhaps becoming the most likely “popular movie” to take down Oscar’s biggest prizes.
Deadline: Everything Everywhere All at Once seems to be at the forefront of a new kind of mainstream filmmaking. How has it felt to see it connect like this?
Stephanie Hsu: Absolutely — I feel like our movie was a launching pad for everybody to say,...
Deadline: Everything Everywhere All at Once seems to be at the forefront of a new kind of mainstream filmmaking. How has it felt to see it connect like this?
Stephanie Hsu: Absolutely — I feel like our movie was a launching pad for everybody to say,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tallie Medel, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., Biff Wiff | Written and Directed by Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Everything Everywhere All at Once falls into a unique place in the world of cinema right now. The multiverse is the hottest idea in Hollywood, with the last two Marvel movies both exploring the idea and bringing it to mainstream audiences. Through the eyes of Marvel it’s already an idea that feels like we’ve seen the limitations of what’s possible, until now. Everything Everywhere All at Once shows the endless possibilities of the multiverse, in one of the most original, unique and exciting films to come out in the last decade.
The multiverse movie follows Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) who’s stuck in a life that feels it never really went anywhere. She works every day at the...
Everything Everywhere All at Once falls into a unique place in the world of cinema right now. The multiverse is the hottest idea in Hollywood, with the last two Marvel movies both exploring the idea and bringing it to mainstream audiences. Through the eyes of Marvel it’s already an idea that feels like we’ve seen the limitations of what’s possible, until now. Everything Everywhere All at Once shows the endless possibilities of the multiverse, in one of the most original, unique and exciting films to come out in the last decade.
The multiverse movie follows Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) who’s stuck in a life that feels it never really went anywhere. She works every day at the...
- 5/16/2022
- by Alex Ginnelly
- Nerdly
Everything Everywhere All at Once Review — Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert and starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tallie Medel, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., Biff Wiff, Sunita Mani, Aaron Lazar, Brian [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022): Michelle Yeoh Stars in One of the Most Ambitious Films Ever Made...
Continue reading: Film Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022): Michelle Yeoh Stars in One of the Most Ambitious Films Ever Made...
- 4/10/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" is a lot of things, but most of all, it's a work of clear, uncompromising vision from filmmaking duo Daniels (aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). In the film, Michelle Yeoh's character Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American laundromat owner, has a hard time accepting the fact that her daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu), is a lesbian (this is before and during the action-packed adventure through the multiverse that powers the film's plot). She outwardly pretends to be okay with Joy's girlfriend, played by Tallie Medel, but she still tries to prevent her from meeting the family patriarch (James...
The post Daniels Took a Hard Stance On the LGBTQ+ Plotline In Everything Everywhere All at Once appeared first on /Film.
The post Daniels Took a Hard Stance On the LGBTQ+ Plotline In Everything Everywhere All at Once appeared first on /Film.
- 4/8/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Photo Credit: Courtesy of A24
Michelle Yeoh gives a tour-de-force performance in the wildly creative Everything Everywhere All At Once, as a weary middle-aged laundromat owner whose marriage is failing, business is being audited by the IRS and daughter is becoming estranged – and is the only person who can save the multiverse. The genre-bending, entertaining, crazy Everything Everywhere All At Once actually is all about everything, as Mrs Wang (Yeoh) – Evelyn – confronts her life, choices and everything about life, as she bounces from alternate universe to alternate universe. Michelle Yeoh is the driving force behind this crazy, hard-to-categorize film that is part comedy, mind-bending sci-fi adventure, visual effects extravaganza, martial arts action-er, and family drama. Yeoh is its dazzling star, as this unlikely heroine.
Mrs. Wang’s (Yeoh) American dream hasn’t worked out. She had big dreams when she married Waymond...
Michelle Yeoh gives a tour-de-force performance in the wildly creative Everything Everywhere All At Once, as a weary middle-aged laundromat owner whose marriage is failing, business is being audited by the IRS and daughter is becoming estranged – and is the only person who can save the multiverse. The genre-bending, entertaining, crazy Everything Everywhere All At Once actually is all about everything, as Mrs Wang (Yeoh) – Evelyn – confronts her life, choices and everything about life, as she bounces from alternate universe to alternate universe. Michelle Yeoh is the driving force behind this crazy, hard-to-categorize film that is part comedy, mind-bending sci-fi adventure, visual effects extravaganza, martial arts action-er, and family drama. Yeoh is its dazzling star, as this unlikely heroine.
Mrs. Wang’s (Yeoh) American dream hasn’t worked out. She had big dreams when she married Waymond...
- 4/8/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Now in theaters, as well as VOD/digital platforms, we have an exclusive look at The Carnivores, starring Lindsay Burdge and Tallie Medel! Along with the clip, which you can watch below, we have writer / director Caleb Michael Johnson's comments on the relationship at the center of The Carnivores and what's hidden below the surface:
"Sometimes you don’t get to decide what your body wants. Actually, let’s refine that slightly: you never get to decide. The best you can do is get good at what to feed and what to starve; you can chew up an ugly bit here to make room for some prettier part there. You can go hunting for something that’s not already inside of you, trap it and eat it and hope it stays down. But it’s all still in there somewhere. Being a functional adult is mostly a matter of...
"Sometimes you don’t get to decide what your body wants. Actually, let’s refine that slightly: you never get to decide. The best you can do is get good at what to feed and what to starve; you can chew up an ugly bit here to make room for some prettier part there. You can go hunting for something that’s not already inside of you, trap it and eat it and hope it stays down. But it’s all still in there somewhere. Being a functional adult is mostly a matter of...
- 6/4/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Dark Sky Films proudly announces the June 4th theatrical + digitalrelease of The Carnivores, an LGBTQ horror comedy starring Lindsay Burdge, Tallie Medel (Joy Kevin), and Aiden the dog as Harvie. Caleb Michael Johnson’s Directorial Debut The Carnivores In Theaters and VOD/Digital Platforms on June 4th “There’s something daring and memorable about …
The post Dark Sky Films Brings The Carnivores to Theaters + VOD on June 4th appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.
The post Dark Sky Films Brings The Carnivores to Theaters + VOD on June 4th appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.
- 5/6/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Lady Killer: "Blake Lively To Star In And Produce Lady Killer Adapted By Diablo Cody
Writer: Academy Award Winner Diablo Cody to adapt the screenplay based on the Dark Horse Comic by the same name Producers: Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg of Dark Horse Entertainment; Blake Lively and Kate Vorhoff for B for Effort Cast: Blake Lively Logline: By all appearances, Josie Schuller is the perfect 1950's housewife. But when she's not catering to the needs of her family, she leads a secret life as a highly-trained killer for hire. Lady Killer is a comic book series written by Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, illustrated by Joëlle Jones and colored by Laura Allred. It has been published by Dark Horse Comics since January 2015. The comic had great critical reception and was nominated at the Eisner Awards as Best Limited Series in 2016. Netflix has a first look deal with...
Writer: Academy Award Winner Diablo Cody to adapt the screenplay based on the Dark Horse Comic by the same name Producers: Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg of Dark Horse Entertainment; Blake Lively and Kate Vorhoff for B for Effort Cast: Blake Lively Logline: By all appearances, Josie Schuller is the perfect 1950's housewife. But when she's not catering to the needs of her family, she leads a secret life as a highly-trained killer for hire. Lady Killer is a comic book series written by Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, illustrated by Joëlle Jones and colored by Laura Allred. It has been published by Dark Horse Comics since January 2015. The comic had great critical reception and was nominated at the Eisner Awards as Best Limited Series in 2016. Netflix has a first look deal with...
- 5/6/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Ticket information for the virtual screening of The Carnivores at this year’s QFest St. Louis can be found Here
The 14th Annual QFest St. Louis — presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) — will take place from April 16-25. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Csl will offer all programs virtually, protecting the health of patrons. Programs can be streamed at any time during the festival’s dates. Recorded introductions and Q&As will be available for most film programs. All of the information about this year’s QFest St. Louis can be found Here
One of the oddest and darkest films screened at QFest to date, writer-director Caleb Michael Johnson’s The Carnivores features a young lesbian couple, Alice and Bret (Tallie Medel and Lindsay Burdge), whose dog, Harvie, is slowly dying. The vet bills are adding up fast, Alice is quietly panicking, and high-strung Bret dotes on the dog and...
The 14th Annual QFest St. Louis — presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) — will take place from April 16-25. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Csl will offer all programs virtually, protecting the health of patrons. Programs can be streamed at any time during the festival’s dates. Recorded introductions and Q&As will be available for most film programs. All of the information about this year’s QFest St. Louis can be found Here
One of the oddest and darkest films screened at QFest to date, writer-director Caleb Michael Johnson’s The Carnivores features a young lesbian couple, Alice and Bret (Tallie Medel and Lindsay Burdge), whose dog, Harvie, is slowly dying. The vet bills are adding up fast, Alice is quietly panicking, and high-strung Bret dotes on the dog and...
- 4/15/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Our year-end coverage continues with a look at the best performances of the year. Rather than divide categories into supporting or lead or by gender, we’ve written about our thirty favorite performances from 2020, period. Check out our countdown below and start watching the ones you’ve missed here.
30. Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Frances McDormand’s work in Nomadland is all about isolation, While she shines in the communal sequences throughout the country, particularly alongside David Strathairn, her best acting here comes from solitude. Whether she’s silently eating in her Rv, working tedious shifts at Amazon warehouses, swimming underneath waterfalls or wandering around her former house with aching melancholy, McDormand flawlessly captures the freedom and heartbreak of impermanence with just a few trembles and glances. – Logan K.
29. Cosmo Jarvis (Shadow of Violence)
The brutality of Western Ireland’s low-level criminals set against the wide-open green landscape that bridges its country...
30. Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Frances McDormand’s work in Nomadland is all about isolation, While she shines in the communal sequences throughout the country, particularly alongside David Strathairn, her best acting here comes from solitude. Whether she’s silently eating in her Rv, working tedious shifts at Amazon warehouses, swimming underneath waterfalls or wandering around her former house with aching melancholy, McDormand flawlessly captures the freedom and heartbreak of impermanence with just a few trembles and glances. – Logan K.
29. Cosmo Jarvis (Shadow of Violence)
The brutality of Western Ireland’s low-level criminals set against the wide-open green landscape that bridges its country...
- 12/23/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Comprising small, gentle scenes played out largely in apartments and restaurants, “Fourteen” wonders if it’s possible for friendships to deepen even as they fall apart. Doing most of the falling apart is Jo (Norma Kuhling), a depressed 20-something who sleeps in past work and sleeps around with lots of guys, much to her friend, Mara’s (Tallie Medel), judgment. The two have been close since middle school, with a scrapbook of memories immediately recognizable to anyone lucky enough to have a life-long friend.
Continue reading ‘Fourteen’: Dan Sallit’s Latest Is A Thoughtful Study Of A Crumbling Friendship [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Fourteen’: Dan Sallit’s Latest Is A Thoughtful Study Of A Crumbling Friendship [Review] at The Playlist.
- 5/22/2020
- by Asher Luberto
- The Playlist
Many of the most scarring breakups we suffer in life are not with lovers, but with friends: people we once trusted with our most closely guarded truths, reduced over the years to strangers, or more wrenchingly still, to polite occasional acquaintances. Yet we rarely refer to these breakups as such. We talk about “drifting apart” or “losing touch” or some other euphemism that makes the loss sound less severe, as if our friendships carry less weight than our romances. We belittle them, even, with phrases like “just friends,” as if the designation is somehow less complex. The unstinting marital drama is a genre unto itself; rarer are the films that scrutinize the progression of a platonic friendship with equivalent gravity and intricacy.
Dan Sallitt’s “Fourteen” is one: a wise, graceful but viciously felt study of middle-school best friends whose bond becomes a burden the further they recede into adulthood,...
Dan Sallitt’s “Fourteen” is one: a wise, graceful but viciously felt study of middle-school best friends whose bond becomes a burden the further they recede into adulthood,...
- 5/18/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Micro-budgeted and entirely self-financed projects by a critic and director with a day job in It, the films of Dan Sallitt feel light years away from anything currently produced in the United States. And the dissonance owes as much to their shoestring means as to the emotional wealth they harbor. To be treading into Sallitt’s luminous cinema—a body of work that so far spans five features and one short, Caterina, his latest project—is to wade into a universe dotted with psychologically complex characters grappling with unfulfilled desires and shape-shifting relationships.It’s a world that feels curiously domestic in scope, pivoting as it often does on character studies and couples’ portraits, like the L.A.-stranded protagonists of Sallitt’s 1986 debut Polly Perverse Strikes Again!, the best friends turned newlyweds in Honeymoon (1998), the two estranged sisters in All The Ships at Sea (2004), or the other sibling duo...
- 5/13/2020
- MUBI
"So what do you think is going on with her?" Grasshopper Film has released an official trailer for an indie drama that has been picking up rave reviews at festivals for a while. Fourteen is the latest film made by American indie filmmaker Dan Sallitt, and it premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year before playing all over the world. Tallie Medel and Norma Kuhling star as two friends struggling with the realities of adult life. The film takes place over a decade, showing us only a few disparate scenes between them when they reconnect and converse. The cast includes Lorelei Romani, C. Mason Wells, Dylan McCormick, and Kolyn Brown. The film will be released "virtually" this month through a watch-at-home service from Grasshopper directly. Here's the full-length trailer (+ final poster) for Dan Sallitt's Fourteen, from Grasshopper's YouTube: Over the course of a decade, a woman named Jo...
- 5/6/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
We’ve been big on Dan Sallitt’s Fourteen since its premiere at last year’s Berlinale, calling it “an acutely observed and quietly expansive little film” about the struggles of friendship between two distinctly different women. Although we named it one of year’s best undistributed films just four months ago, it’s opening next week—virtually, given these times—via Grasshopper Film, who’ve premiered a trailer and poster. (Which now makes it one of 10 films to see this month.)
Starring Tallie Medel and Norma Kuhling (Chicago Med), the movie, which I saw last year, efficiently moves across an entire decade, and in 90-or-so minutes captures time’s alternately enriching and corrosive effects in a way that’s practically novelistic in depth.
See both below:
Mara and Jo, in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. Jo, the more outgoing figure, is a social worker who...
Starring Tallie Medel and Norma Kuhling (Chicago Med), the movie, which I saw last year, efficiently moves across an entire decade, and in 90-or-so minutes captures time’s alternately enriching and corrosive effects in a way that’s practically novelistic in depth.
See both below:
Mara and Jo, in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. Jo, the more outgoing figure, is a social worker who...
- 5/5/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Dim echoes of David Lynch and early Roman Polanski abound throughout “The Carnivores,” a fitfully fascinating mix of teasing narrative opacity and stylized psycho-thriller atmospherics. The shot-in-Austin indie feature, originally set to premiere at the cancelled SXSW Film Festival, instead had a March 14 unveiling at a private event in the Texas capital city attended, according to a press release, by “the film’s crew, cast, friends & family, and prominent members of the Austin film community.”
Director Caleb Michael Johnson, working from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Bay Smith, walks a tricky tightrope here, and occasionally — especially during his movie’s first act — seems perilously close to toppling into absurdity. Indeed, there are moments when he inadvertently cues memories of the hilarious remark by Janeane Garofalo’s veterinarian talk show host in “The Truth About Cats and Dogs”: “You can love your dog. Just don’t love your dog.
Director Caleb Michael Johnson, working from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Bay Smith, walks a tricky tightrope here, and occasionally — especially during his movie’s first act — seems perilously close to toppling into absurdity. Indeed, there are moments when he inadvertently cues memories of the hilarious remark by Janeane Garofalo’s veterinarian talk show host in “The Truth About Cats and Dogs”: “You can love your dog. Just don’t love your dog.
- 3/15/2020
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
"Did he seem nervous when you asked him to dinner?" This small indie film playing on the festival circuit is a worthwhile discovery and still needs a distributor. Fourteen is the latest film made by American indie filmmaker Dan Sallitt, and it first premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year before playing all over the world. Tallie Medel and Norma Kuhling star as two friends struggling with the realities of adult life. The film takes place over a decade, showing us only a few disparate scenes between them when they reconnect and converse. The cast also includes Lorelei Romani, C. Mason Wells, Dylan McCormick, and Kolyn Brown. This earned some rave reviews from critics at festivals; it's a unique, low-key drama that will connect more with some than others. These teasers were released during its festival run; we're still waiting to see a full-length trailer. Here's the first two...
- 1/15/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Grasshopper Film has required the U.S. distribution rights to Fourteen, the feature about female friendship from writer/director Dan Sallitt, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival. Starring Tallie Medel and Norma Kuhling (NBC’s Chicago Med), the pic is slated for a theatrical release in the spring followed by a digital and home video release.
The story centers on Mara and Jo who, now in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. Jo, the more outgoing figure, is a social worker who runs through a series of brief but intense relationships. Mara, a less splashy personality than Jo, bounces among teacher aide jobs while trying to land a position in elementary education, and writes fiction in her spare time. She too has a transient romantic life, though she seems to settle down after meeting Adam, a mild-mannered software developer.
The story centers on Mara and Jo who, now in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. Jo, the more outgoing figure, is a social worker who runs through a series of brief but intense relationships. Mara, a less splashy personality than Jo, bounces among teacher aide jobs while trying to land a position in elementary education, and writes fiction in her spare time. She too has a transient romantic life, though she seems to settle down after meeting Adam, a mild-mannered software developer.
- 1/15/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Set deep in the heart of Texas, Daniel Laabs’ Jules of Light and Dark explores the landscape of recovery as an unlikely friendship is formed between college student Maya (Tallie Medel) and divorced oil worker Freddy (Robert Longstreet). Both are coming to terms with past baggage as Maya recovers from a breakup with Jules (Betsy Holt), a bi-sexual rave girl who is unfortunately not as well developed or as interesting as Maya and Freddy. Laab’s sparse narrative occasionally finds itself bogged down by too little exposition, relying heavily on the poetry of cinematographer Noe Medrano Jr.’s camera and the excellent, natural performances of Medel and Longstreet to do the heavy lifting. It’s a gamble that for the most part works well, even if too often repeats concepts and frames constantly. A favorite shot used too often is Medel’s Maya looking off into the distance, contemplating, a...
- 5/16/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
While the Berlinale is simply too big for anyone to know if this 2019 was a “good” or “bad” year for the annual über-festival, this edition was highlighted by several of the best and most exciting films that have premiered in Potsdamer Platz in recent memory. The Competition section boasted a career-best offering from Nadav Lapid, a career-topping retrospective from Agnès Varda, and a career-redefining journalistic drama from François Ozon. But the cream of the crop wasn’t contained to a single portion of the lineup, as the Panorama and Forum sections also played host to a handful of films that will continue to make waves on the festival circuit for the rest of the year. As is often the case at the Berlinale, many of the standout films were still without American distribution by the time the festival came to an end. From the masterful Golden Bear winner to a...
- 2/19/2019
- by David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
There is an uncomfortable, universal wound being picked at in Dan Sallitt’s latest film, regardless of which of its characters the viewer relates to more. The question is this: can we ever outgrow those close friends we looked up to in our younger years or are we destined to forever carry that complex around? This conundrum is what gnaws at the heart of Fourteen, an acutely observed and quietly expansive little film from the New York director of The Unspeakable Truth (another film with uncomfortable ideas about pseudo-siblinghood). This new feature concerns the alpha-beta (as it is perceived by the characters) relationship of two young women living in Brooklyn as, over the course of a decade or so, the beta friend adjusts to the pains and realizations of growing up and growing apart.
Fourteen stars Tallie Medel–who got her first break playing the lead in The Unspeakable Act...
Fourteen stars Tallie Medel–who got her first break playing the lead in The Unspeakable Act...
- 2/9/2019
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
“You need something all the time!” Mara snaps at Jo. “It gets difficult.” It’s a little comment, but one that’s been at least 10 years in the making. After more than a decade of intense — and intensely unbalanced — friendship in which the burden of emotional responsibility has only ever belonged to her, Mara (Tallie Medel) finds that her patience is starting to wear thin. Jo (Norma Kuhling) has just flaked out on dinner plans for the a zillionth time, and then shown up at Mara’s door at 12:40 A.M. in a fever about some other thing; she’s in another one of her panics about being fired from another one of her jobs.
Jo’s trouble goes a bit deeper than the average millennial’s post-adolescent slump, but Mara doesn’t really care about the reasons anymore. She’s getting her shit together. Not in a “strut...
Jo’s trouble goes a bit deeper than the average millennial’s post-adolescent slump, but Mara doesn’t really care about the reasons anymore. She’s getting her shit together. Not in a “strut...
- 2/8/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Over the past few years, Ricky D’Ambrose has established himself as one of the more intriguing independent American directors. His shorts, especially Six Cents in the Pocket (2015) and Spiral Jetty (2017), are above all founded upon a radical minimalism enforced by both budget and style, recalling Robert Bresson in the quick, close-up shots of hands, objects, and faces, conveyed with a directness that suggests a shifting complexity just under the surface. Coupled with this predilection is perhaps D’Ambrose’s most singular characteristic: his lovingly crafted, authentic-looking recreations or representations of various scattered material: newspapers, journal articles, postcards, notes, subway maps, correspondence, and other sundry objects. This was especially pronounced in Spiral Jetty, a film about an archivist who uncovers a dark mystery through the papers of a deceased celebrated psychologist.
With his debut feature, Notes on an Appearance, D’Ambrose takes this central idea and elaborates upon it. David,...
With his debut feature, Notes on an Appearance, D’Ambrose takes this central idea and elaborates upon it. David,...
- 8/17/2018
- by Ryan Swen
- The Film Stage
"There's much to be cleared up, for the record, and a good deal of intellectual rehabilitation was in store." Grasshopper Film has released an official trailer for a film titled Notes on an Appearance, a mysterious experimental thriller from filmmaker Ricky D'Ambrose (University People) about a missing person. This first premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and also played at New Directors/New Films, and the Sarasota, Montclair, and Melbourne Film Festival. The highly intellectual film has been described as, "like a quirkier Bresson, without the Catholic ennui." Notes on an Appearance stars Bingham Bryan, Keith Poulson, Tallie Medel, and Madeleine James. This seems like something only for the most die-hard cinephiles out there, not for mainstream audiences. But worth a look anyway if you're curious about it. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Ricky D'Ambrose's Notes on an Appearance, from YouTube: A young man's disappearance...
- 7/25/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to the Talal Derki-directed documentary Of Fathers and Sons, which picked up the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Award earlier this year at Sundance. The film will be released in theaters in the Fall of 2018 followed by VOD and home video releases are scheduled for early 2019. In the doc, Derki returns to his homeland where he gained the trust of Abu Osama, one of the founders and front members of Al-Nusra, the Syrian arm of Al-Qaeda. He spent two and a half years documenting Osama and his eight young sons who are on the path to becoming Jihadi fighters. Producers are Hans Robert Eisenhauer, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, and Tobias Siebert. Richard Lorber and Wendy Lidell of Kino negotiated the deal with Nick Shumaker of UTA, Dan Cogan of Impact Partners and Tobias Siebert from Basis Berlin.
Grasshopper Film has obtained the U.
Grasshopper Film has obtained the U.
- 5/7/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, a science-fiction Tom Hanks project will arrive in 2020, “Hearts Beat Loud” gets a film festival slot, and “Notes on an Appearance” gets distribution.
Release Dates
Universal Pictures has dated Tom Hanks’ sci-fi story “Bios” for Oct. 2, 2020, along with giving horror-thriller “The Turning” a Feb. 22 launch and canine drama “A Dog’s Journey” for May 17, 2019.
Hanks stars in Amblin Entertainment’s “Bios” as the last man on Earth who builds a robot to keep his beloved dog safe. As the trio embarks upon an epic cross-country journey, the scientist must teach his creation to become “human” enough to take care of its charge… and the beloved pet to accept a new master.
“Bios” is directed by Miguel Sapochnik from a script by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. Producers are Kevin Misher, as well as ImageMovers’ Jack Rapke and Jackie Levine. Robert Zemeckis, Luck, Sapochnik, and...
Release Dates
Universal Pictures has dated Tom Hanks’ sci-fi story “Bios” for Oct. 2, 2020, along with giving horror-thriller “The Turning” a Feb. 22 launch and canine drama “A Dog’s Journey” for May 17, 2019.
Hanks stars in Amblin Entertainment’s “Bios” as the last man on Earth who builds a robot to keep his beloved dog safe. As the trio embarks upon an epic cross-country journey, the scientist must teach his creation to become “human” enough to take care of its charge… and the beloved pet to accept a new master.
“Bios” is directed by Miguel Sapochnik from a script by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. Producers are Kevin Misher, as well as ImageMovers’ Jack Rapke and Jackie Levine. Robert Zemeckis, Luck, Sapochnik, and...
- 5/5/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Now in its eighth year, the American Film Festival offers a unique perspective on recent developments in U.S. indie filmmaking. That’s because it happens in Poland, staged at the stylish Kino Nowe Horyzonty film center in Wroclaw, also home to the summer New Horizons festival, which has more of a European tilt.
Although the festival, which recently concluded, surveys many favorites from Sundance and South by Southwest, the curation doesn’t merely transpose selections to a new setting. It imports a lively assortment of filmmakers, as well, and creates a cozy, engaged atmosphere more akin to the communal vibe of the Maryland Film Festival. Indeed, to rub shoulders in a crowd that included Jody Lee Lipes, Noel Wells, Dustin Guy Defa, Nathan Silver, producer Mike Ryan, Jessica Oreck and Mike Ott is to experience a deep dive into the creative bustle of current indie ferment.
That spirit is...
Although the festival, which recently concluded, surveys many favorites from Sundance and South by Southwest, the curation doesn’t merely transpose selections to a new setting. It imports a lively assortment of filmmakers, as well, and creates a cozy, engaged atmosphere more akin to the communal vibe of the Maryland Film Festival. Indeed, to rub shoulders in a crowd that included Jody Lee Lipes, Noel Wells, Dustin Guy Defa, Nathan Silver, producer Mike Ryan, Jessica Oreck and Mike Ott is to experience a deep dive into the creative bustle of current indie ferment.
That spirit is...
- 11/14/2017
- by Steve Dollar
- Indiewire
What is “Snowy Bing Bongs?” As with most projects involving “Swiss Army Man” co-directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — aka “Daniels” — you kind of have to watch it. Originally performed as a stage play by the dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team, the 40-minute film that’s “part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show” premieres at Brooklyn’s BAMcinemaFEST. Its path to that point was as unpredictable as the movie itself.
Read More: How the ‘Swiss Army Man’ Directors Went From Working With Lil Jon to Daniel Radcliffe
Cocoon Central founders Tallie Medel, Sunita Mani and Eleanore Pienta — aka the Bing Bongs — have been longtime collaborators with the Daniels, dating back to their days at Emerson College in Boston. That was before Kwan and Scheinert made names for themselves as the directors of visually-inventive music videos, which led to their surreal 2016 Sundance breakout.
“Basically, every movie I made...
Read More: How the ‘Swiss Army Man’ Directors Went From Working With Lil Jon to Daniel Radcliffe
Cocoon Central founders Tallie Medel, Sunita Mani and Eleanore Pienta — aka the Bing Bongs — have been longtime collaborators with the Daniels, dating back to their days at Emerson College in Boston. That was before Kwan and Scheinert made names for themselves as the directors of visually-inventive music videos, which led to their surreal 2016 Sundance breakout.
“Basically, every movie I made...
- 6/19/2017
- by Chris O'Falt and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
It’s easy to feel stuck in your life, especially if you’re a gorilla named Sylvio living amongst humans. That’s not just some random, stray thought, it’s the plot of the aptly named comedy “Sylvio,” directed by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley, which will have its world premiere at this month’s SXSW.
Read More: SXSW: Midnighters, Short Films and Vr Round Out 2017 Lineup
Set in a small town, the film follows the eponymous Sylvio (again, a gorilla amongst humans), who is unhappy at his job at a debt collection agency and would much rather express himself via hand puppet and an experimental puppet show that highlights the quiet moments of life. When he accidentally joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, he’s sent on a journey of self-discovery where reality and fantasy start to blend. Relatable.
Read More: SXSW: Midnighters, Short Films and Vr Round Out 2017 Lineup
Set in a small town, the film follows the eponymous Sylvio (again, a gorilla amongst humans), who is unhappy at his job at a debt collection agency and would much rather express himself via hand puppet and an experimental puppet show that highlights the quiet moments of life. When he accidentally joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, he’s sent on a journey of self-discovery where reality and fantasy start to blend. Relatable.
- 3/8/2017
- by Allison Picurro
- Indiewire
Dustin Guy Defa makes his Sundance Film Festival feature debut with “Person to Person,” and he doesn’t know what to expect. He’s had a lot of disappointments in his life, ranging from being the kind of penniless artist whose survival demands long-term couch surfing to overcoming a nightmare family of origin. (It yielded his 2011 Sundance short, “Family Nightmare.”)
However, “Person To Person” also gives real weight to the time-worn trope that values the journey over the destination. With a cast that includes names like Michael Cera and”Broad City” star Abbi Jacobson as well as indie filmmaking stalwarts like David Zellner and Benny Safdie, it reflects the success he’s had building his place in independent filmmaking and the joy he brings with it. “It comes through loud and clear in his work,” said filmmaker David Lowery, a longtime Defa fan. “It’s the reason why his movies...
However, “Person To Person” also gives real weight to the time-worn trope that values the journey over the destination. With a cast that includes names like Michael Cera and”Broad City” star Abbi Jacobson as well as indie filmmaking stalwarts like David Zellner and Benny Safdie, it reflects the success he’s had building his place in independent filmmaking and the joy he brings with it. “It comes through loud and clear in his work,” said filmmaker David Lowery, a longtime Defa fan. “It’s the reason why his movies...
- 1/20/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
"Life isn't about toys... it's about mistakes." FilmBuff has released a trailer for a weird indie film titled The Arbalest, a quirky romantic drama starring Mike Brune. It's about an inventor of the world's greatest toy (called the Kalt Cube) who reflects through flashbacks on his obsession with a woman who hates him. The cast includes Tallie Medel, Matthew Stanton and Felice Heather Monteith. One review describes: "If David Lynch and Wes Anderson had a cinematic baby, it might look something like The Arbalest." It won the top prize at this year's SXSW Film Festival, and looks like it has some twisted but amusing aspects to it. There's all kinds of weird touches, including the production name: "A Fake Wood Wallpaper Film." Check it. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Adam Pinney's The Arbalest, direct from YouTube: From the minds behind "Too Many Cooks" comes The Arbalest: the tale of enigmatic,...
- 11/10/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Adam Pinney’s “The Arbalest” won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at this year’s South by Southwest. Now, the drama will be released later this month for all to enjoy.
From the minds behind “Too Many Cooks,” comes the story of a famed and enigmatic toymaker named Foster Kalt (Mike Brune), the inventor of the “Kalt Cube.” The film follows him in a series of flashbacks over the course of an interview with a TV reporter while he reflects on his lifelong obsession with Sylvia Frank (Tallie Medel).
FilmBuff Movies released a new trailer for the upcoming movie, which features Kalt discussing his first meeting with the apple of his eye, to years later stalking her from a cabin in the woods.
Read More: SXSW 2016 Review: Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘The Arbalest’ Isn’t For Everyone
The film is produced by Fake Wood Wallpaper, the same...
From the minds behind “Too Many Cooks,” comes the story of a famed and enigmatic toymaker named Foster Kalt (Mike Brune), the inventor of the “Kalt Cube.” The film follows him in a series of flashbacks over the course of an interview with a TV reporter while he reflects on his lifelong obsession with Sylvia Frank (Tallie Medel).
FilmBuff Movies released a new trailer for the upcoming movie, which features Kalt discussing his first meeting with the apple of his eye, to years later stalking her from a cabin in the woods.
Read More: SXSW 2016 Review: Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘The Arbalest’ Isn’t For Everyone
The film is produced by Fake Wood Wallpaper, the same...
- 11/9/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Albert Lamorisse, the talented maker of fantasy short films and the board game Risk (here the game is rebranded as The Arbalest) influences a young Foster Kalt, a dreamer whose invention, despite being dazzling, is laughed at on the eve of its debut in 1968. His proposal is a device that converts oxygen to helium, filling a balloon without a clunky tank. It appears the world, or at least the object of his affection, prefers the Rubik’s Cube.
Luckily for writer/director Adam Pinney, The Arbalest is a far more fitting title than Risk. A piercingly original and very funny debut feature, the picture takes no prisoners as it constantly changes shapes and form. Its subject, the elusive fictional Foster Kalt (Mike Brune), is a narcissist who takes aim at those that dare laugh at him — an unholy combo of Donald Trump’s ego and The Hudsucker Proxy’s Norville Barnes...
Luckily for writer/director Adam Pinney, The Arbalest is a far more fitting title than Risk. A piercingly original and very funny debut feature, the picture takes no prisoners as it constantly changes shapes and form. Its subject, the elusive fictional Foster Kalt (Mike Brune), is a narcissist who takes aim at those that dare laugh at him — an unholy combo of Donald Trump’s ego and The Hudsucker Proxy’s Norville Barnes...
- 5/12/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Inspired by the cult obsessions around icons like Lou Reed and Klaus Kinski, the sort that points to an artist’s work as forgiveness for ugly behavior, “The Arbalest” similarly presents a prickly personality while displaying some unique merits. A period film at first look, director Adam Pinney frames this folk tale of obsession in a parallel reality, with history getting a revisionist tweak, jumping back and forth over a decade in the mind of Foster Kalt (Mike Brune), an enigmatic toymaker during the ‘60s and ‘70s. A definite vision sells the world that Pinney aims to create, but the flat characters that populate the film prove it as little more than an ambitious curio piece. Emotionally, “The Arbalest” explores the dangerous lengths of nagging regret. It opens in 1968, within a hotel room during a toy convention, as Foster Kalt meets the woman that will haunt him -- or he...
- 3/22/2016
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Title: The Arbalest Director: Adam Pinney Cast: Mike Brune, Tallie Medel, Felice Monteith, Matt Stanton and Marc Farley Trying to decipher the complicated and puzzling nature of people’s complex emotions can be a bewildering experience, especially when their intentions are seemingly drastically different from your own. That’s certainly the case with both the main character and the story in first-time feature film director Adam Pinney’s new drama, ‘The Abalest.’ The movie, which the filmmaker also wrote the script for, chronicles a mystifying anti-hero’s baffling motivations as he unsuccessfully pursues the woman he proclaims to love, who doesn’t reciprocate his romantic feelings, for nearly a decade. The drama, which received the [ Read More ]
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- 3/21/2016
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
SXSW has some big, starry movies on the way, but it has long been the place where emerging filmmakers can make their voices heard, and writer/director Adam Pinney is one of them hoping to make his mark this year. He'll be unveiling his debut feature film, "The Arbalest," and today we have the exclusive trailer for what looks like a unique comedy. Read More: SXSW Adds New Fede Alvarez Thriller, Remastered 'Phantasm,' Sundance Hits 'Newtown,' 'Morris From America,' And More Starring Mike Brune and Tallie Medel, the movie follows a '70s toy inventor who recounts his life and the obsession with one woman he couldn't let go. Here's the synopsis: Foster Kalt, a famous toy inventor in the 1970s, reflects on his lifelong obsession with Sylvia Frank. From his first meeting with Sylvia in a New York Hotel Room in 1968, to years later when...
- 3/9/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Ready to premiere shortly as part of SXSW's Narrative Feature Competition, The Arbalest has a very intriguing premise: Foster Kalt, a famous toy inventor in the 1970s, reflects on his lifelong obsession with Sylvia Frank. From his first meeting with Sylvia in a New York Hotel Room in 1968, to years later when he is stalking her from a cabin in the woods, the puzzle pieces of Kalt's obsession come together to form his latest, shocking invention. Adam Pinney wrote and directed; he's an industry vet with credits as a writer, editor, and director of photography (Joe Swanberg's 24 Exposures). Mike Brune and Tallie Medel star. Here's a clip that hints at the drama that awaits. The Arbalest will screen at SXSW next Monday, Tuesday,...
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- 3/7/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Foster Kalt, a famous toy inventor in the 1970s, reflects on his lifelong obsession with Sylvia Frank. From his first meeting with Sylvia in a New York Hotel Room in 1968, to years later when he is stalking her from a cabin in the woods, the puzzle pieces of Kalt’s obsession come together to form his latest, shocking invention. The film stars Mike Brune & Tallie Medel and was written, edited, and directed by Adam Pinney. “The Arbalest” is part of SXSW Film Festivals 2016 Narrative Feature Competition starting on March 11.
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- 2/18/2016
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
Sundance has only just wrapped up, and already we’re thinking abut the next big film festival on our horizon. SXSW 2016 runs March 11th through the 19th in Austin, TX, and while there are still a few more titles to come — including my personal favorite section, the Midnighters — the bulk of the titles playing this year’s fest have just been announced. My own most-anticipated of the festival is John Michael McDonagh’s War on Everyone (pictured above) as his last film, Calvary, was my favorite of 2014. Other highlights include Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice, Ti West’s In a Valley of Violence, and Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special. Narrative Feature Competition Ten world premieres; ten unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,442 narrative feature submissions in 2016. The Arbalest Director/Screenwriter: Adam Pinney The inventor of the world’s greatest toy reflects on his decade-long obsession with a woman who hates him. Cast:...
- 2/4/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Cocoon Central Dance Team is a New York-based comedy dance troupe made up of three talented women: Sunita Mani, Eleanore Pienta and Tallie Medel. They are each up-and-coming actors in their own right, landing roles in indie films, big music videos and on television. But their work as a trio, as Cocoon Central Dance Team, is what we focus on in this episode of She Does Podcast because they truly are a remarkably talented, gut-busting, thigh slapping, absurd-outfit-wearing, glitter-throwing, dance-until-you-laugh-until-you-cry group of women. Cocoon has performed at Upright Citizen’s Brigade, MoMa PS1, The Pit, Showgasm with John Early and Cast […]...
- 1/19/2016
- by Elaine Sheldon and Sarah Ginsburg
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Cocoon Central Dance Team is a New York-based comedy dance troupe made up of three talented women: Sunita Mani, Eleanore Pienta and Tallie Medel. They are each up-and-coming actors in their own right, landing roles in indie films, big music videos and on television. But their work as a trio, as Cocoon Central Dance Team, is what we focus on in this episode of She Does Podcast because they truly are a remarkably talented, gut-busting, thigh slapping, absurd-outfit-wearing, glitter-throwing, dance-until-you-laugh-until-you-cry group of women. Cocoon has performed at Upright Citizen’s Brigade, MoMa PS1, The Pit, Showgasm with John Early and Cast […]...
- 1/19/2016
- by Elaine Sheldon and Sarah Ginsburg
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A pair of sections that we’ve been covering almost since its inception, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced their selections for the New Auteurs and American Independents line-ups and we’ve got a noteworthy, eyebrow-raising sampling of award-winning items from the Cannes played hellish immigration drama Mediterranea from Jonas Carpignano to Sundance (Josh Mond’s James White) to SXSW (Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha) winners. Since Park City days, our Nicholas Bell has reviewed a good chunk of these titles, but we’ll still likely have a couple of more reviews once the festival begins. Here are the selections and jury members.
New Auteurs Selections (11 Titles)
From Afar – When a middle-aged man is assaulted and robbed by a young criminal, an unlikely relationship develops. Dir Lorenzo Vigas. Scr Lorenzo Vigas. Cast Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva. Venezuela/Mexico. U.S. Premiere
Disorder – Matthias Schoenaerts plays an ex-soldier who becomes locked...
New Auteurs Selections (11 Titles)
From Afar – When a middle-aged man is assaulted and robbed by a young criminal, an unlikely relationship develops. Dir Lorenzo Vigas. Scr Lorenzo Vigas. Cast Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva. Venezuela/Mexico. U.S. Premiere
Disorder – Matthias Schoenaerts plays an ex-soldier who becomes locked...
- 10/15/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
It started with an infographic. Then more infographics. And some think pieces. And some brief TwitterRage. Over the last year and a half, women’s role in cinema, specifically Hollywood cinema, has become a lightning rod for discussion and debate, and more so than any time in the past, people are approaching film a little more critically in regards to how women are portrayed. The statistics are mind-numbingly bleak, with women representing a fraction of the work force behind the camera, from director to CEO to the best boy. Women in front of the camera rarely fair much better, with roles such as “beautiful and always understanding girlfriend/wife to the hilarious schlub” and “girl with cleavage that shoots guns in tight clothes”.
Last week I happened across a piece about the Best Actress race for the upcoming Academy Award Ceremony and the author talked about how the Actress race...
Last week I happened across a piece about the Best Actress race for the upcoming Academy Award Ceremony and the author talked about how the Actress race...
- 12/11/2014
- by Jae K. Renfrow
- SoundOnSight
Uncertain Terms
Written by Chloe Domont, Nathan Silver and Cody Stokes
Directed by Nathan Silver
USA, 2014
Director Nathan Silver is a rare talent in American indie cinema, capable of drawing great depth from seemingly innocuous situations. His films focus on displacement and youthful uncertainty, tapping as authentically as anyone else into some of his generations most immediate concerns. Though there’s noticeably more at stake than in his breakthrough gem Exit Elena, Silver’s fourth feature is a similarly quiet, intimate portrayal of everyday life.
Uncertain Terms is set in a home for pregnant teenagers, designed to protect them from the judgement and overwhelming pressure of society and family. Run by Carla (Cindy Silver), who went through a difficult time when she fell pregnant at a young age, the home is a frank, liberal environment focused on commonality and support. The girls are from varied backgrounds and have contrasting personalities...
Written by Chloe Domont, Nathan Silver and Cody Stokes
Directed by Nathan Silver
USA, 2014
Director Nathan Silver is a rare talent in American indie cinema, capable of drawing great depth from seemingly innocuous situations. His films focus on displacement and youthful uncertainty, tapping as authentically as anyone else into some of his generations most immediate concerns. Though there’s noticeably more at stake than in his breakthrough gem Exit Elena, Silver’s fourth feature is a similarly quiet, intimate portrayal of everyday life.
Uncertain Terms is set in a home for pregnant teenagers, designed to protect them from the judgement and overwhelming pressure of society and family. Run by Carla (Cindy Silver), who went through a difficult time when she fell pregnant at a young age, the home is a frank, liberal environment focused on commonality and support. The girls are from varied backgrounds and have contrasting personalities...
- 6/27/2014
- by Rob Dickie
- SoundOnSight
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