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The Reelist: David Brind on Teen Angst
16 hours ago
Dare: Zach Gilford and Emmy Rossum Dare, the new film directed by Adam Salky, opens this Friday after its premiere earlier this year at Sundance. Written by Tribeca Film Festival alum David Brind (Twenty Dollar Drinks, Tff 2006), Dare follows the story of three teens caught up in a tempestuous love triangle. With so many influences evident in the story, we asked Brind to share his inspiration with us. We are pleased to present our first-ever guest-hosted Reelist. From the classic Rebel Without A Cause to seminal 90s hits (Election, The Ice Storm, Welcome to the Dollhouse) to the more recent Mean Girls, he's picked a gem of a list, and we have updated our Netflix queue accordingly. I've been a fan of the high school movie genre for as long as I can remember. Adolescence, for me, was a time of extremely heightened emotions, desires, and drives. The tricky »
Southern Ethics:[p]That Evening Sun
16 hours ago
With That Evening Sun, first time writer/director Scott Teems has adapted a modern Southern story (I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down, by Tennessee writer William Gay) into a elegiac, quiet film with heart, rugged authenticity, and a stubborn mule of a central character, portrayed by veteran actor Hal Holbrook. Holbrook's revelation of a performance in Sean Penn's Into the Wild two years ago (for which he received his first Oscar nomination at the age of 82 - the oldest actor ever nominated) caught Teems' eye; as he said, 'We knew we'd found our Abner.' Abner Meecham is an 80-year-old widower whose only son has moved him from his farm in West Tennessee into an assisted living facility several hours away. When Abner decides he's had enough of the place, he hitches back to the farm, only to find it (legally) occupied by the family of Lonzo Choat, »
Doha Tff: The Conversation Continues
17 hours ago
Key industry, notable press, and local audiences all came together this past week to make the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival - which drew notable directors like Mira Nair and Martin Scorsese - an unqualified success. I'm not just saying that because I work here, or because the hard work of the past few months has faded into the rosy glow of an event's aftermath. I'm saying that because, even though there were glitches and bumps to stumble over, it was well done, with good films and happy participants. From the City Center multiplex to I.M. Pei's latest masterpiece (the Museum of Islamic Art), from the historic Souq Waqif to the Four Seasons, the Festival spanned the entire city to showcase the depth of culture found in Doha. Highlighted by quality cinema and sparkling events, an event of this magnitude was no easy feat (quick shout out to the amazing duo at the helm, »
Jason Reitman: Flying Solo
9 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST
You can learn a lot from director Jason Reitman; after all, with only three features to his name - Thank You For Smoking, Juno, and the upcoming George Clooney vehicle Up in the Air - he's already established himself as one of the brightest filmmakers around, with a knack for making smart and human comedies, and he's barely into his thirties. For Reitman, the reason he gravitated so strongly towards his biggest hit, the Oscar-winning Juno, which made stars out of screenwriter Diablo Cody and actress Ellen Page, is because he loved the unusual decisions of its characters. 'I have no idea where my characters come from or what they do,' said Reitman. 'I just think of them as human beings.' Keeping in mind Reitman's love of 'unusual decisions,' it's no wonder that he veered from the usual Apple Store Meet the Filmmaker Talk format of a moderator, »
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