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Las Vegas -- CineVegas, the annual gathering of indie film powerbrokers amid the slot machines and black-jack tables, wound down Sunday after providing several breakouts -- and more than a few surreal spectacles.
Among the world premieres to make a splash were Jeff Mizushima's "Etienne!," Frankie Latina's "Modus Operandi" and Kyle Patrick Alvarez's "Easier With Practice."
Mizushima's "Etienne!" was a conversation piece for many over the weekend. The film, a spiritual cousin to "Lars and the Real Girl," centers on a pudgy loner who has only one friend -- the titular dwarf hamster -- whom he decides to take on a bike trip up the California coast after the critter is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
"Operandi," meanwhile, was the talk of the festival among media and execs after its premiere Saturday night. Nominally a thriller involving a revenge-bent CIA agent,...
Las Vegas -- CineVegas, the annual gathering of indie film powerbrokers amid the slot machines and black-jack tables, wound down Sunday after providing several breakouts -- and more than a few surreal spectacles.
Among the world premieres to make a splash were Jeff Mizushima's "Etienne!," Frankie Latina's "Modus Operandi" and Kyle Patrick Alvarez's "Easier With Practice."
Mizushima's "Etienne!" was a conversation piece for many over the weekend. The film, a spiritual cousin to "Lars and the Real Girl," centers on a pudgy loner who has only one friend -- the titular dwarf hamster -- whom he decides to take on a bike trip up the California coast after the critter is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
"Operandi," meanwhile, was the talk of the festival among media and execs after its premiere Saturday night. Nominally a thriller involving a revenge-bent CIA agent,...
- 6/14/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ernest Hemingway, the famous Pulitzer-winning and Nobel Prize-winning novelist, journalist, veteran of three separate wars, infamous womanizer, drinker, and hunter of big game, is about to have his turbulent life brought to the silver screen. The Hollywood Reporter reports that producer Kevin Fortuna (The Talent Given Us) and The Gotham Group have optioned the film rights to A.E. Hotchner's best-selling biography "Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir". No writer or director has been announced for this project just yet, although it's likely that Hotchner himself could adapt his own novel as he did previously. Hotchner, who wrote the 1962 film Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man based on some of the author's stories only a year after Hemingway shot himself to death, was a close friend of Hemingway's during his later life. The biography itself delves into the final 14 years of Hemingway's life. Hotchner's book revealed that the writer ...
- 2/3/2009
- by Brandon Lee Tenney
- firstshowing.net
ORLANDO -- Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, Bennett Miller's Capote, Phil Morrison's Junebug, Lodge Kerrigan's Keane and Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know each earned two nominations as the 15th annual Gotham Awards were announced Monday by New York's Independent Feature Project. Brokeback, Capote, Keane and Me and You all received best feature nominations for the awards, which will be handed out Nov. 30 at Chelsea Piers' Pier 60 in New York. The fifth best feature nominee was David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. Those nominated for breakthrough director were July for Me and You, Miller for Capote, Morrison for Junebug, Andrew Wagner for The Talent Given Us and Alice Wu for Saving Face.
- 10/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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