Music is at the core of two new Specialty features making their theatrical bows this weekend, albeit from rather different ends of the spectrum. XLrator Media will open Jimi: All Is By My Side focusing on the artist’s life in London in nearly three dozen theaters, while Samuel Goldwyn Films will bow faith-centered The Song in over 300 theaters, the biggest number of runs for a limited release newcomer this week. Magnolia Pictures will take thriller The Two Faces Of January starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac to an initial half-dozen locations in the wake of its VOD release late last month and CBS Films is targeting the same number of runs for its Cannes ’14 feature Pride. Factory 25 is opening its art meets goth-rap thriller Hellaware and Cinema Libre will debut a former Swiss foreign-language Oscar contender The Little Bedroom in exclusive New York runs. The weekend is...
- 9/26/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Some filmmakers know how to make the most of an opportunity. The group behind "Hellaware," an independent comedy set to premiere at the BAMcinemafest on June 22, has released a YouTube video to promote their film. While not a revolutionary act per se, the execution has left many confused internet viewers wondering what, if anything, the video is about. Let's start at the beginning. The film itself focuses on an "aspiring but less than ambitious" New York City photographer who discovers the Young Torture Killaz — an extremely vulgar band sporting excess amounts of clown makeup — on YouTube. He becomes fascinated with them and hopes they'll prove to be his big break. Starring Keith Poulson ("Somebody Up There Likes Me") and directed by Michael M. Bilandic ("Happy Life"), "Hellaware" is meant to be a satirical take of New York City's underground art world. Meanwhile, in the real world, the fictional Young Torture...
- 6/20/2013
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Techno’s PLURific, ecstasy-fueled heyday is as deserving of an elegy as any other past-its-prime pop moment, but in spite of Happy Life’s premise—the owner of a dance-music store tries to put together an “old-school rave” to save his fading business from going under—the film doesn’t seem all that into the subculture it attempts to wryly nostalgize. Its aging man-child hero, Tom McCaffrey—first shown rising at the crack of noon and walking down the street in a neon-green T-shirt and matching headphones, as though he somehow skipped the last decade—uses the scene’s neo-hippie ...
- 10/13/2011
- avclub.com
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