Festival Films Picked Up: The Eclipse After a bidding war, you will be getting gothic with Conor McPherson's spooky tale and Ciaran Hinds' Best Actor-winning performance via Magnolia Pictures. [indieWIRE] Defamation Yoav Shamir's thought-provoking (and Special Jury Prize-winning) documentary has been picked up by First Run Features for a theatrical release in the fall. [Screen Daily] Fish Eyes After starting out with some gorgeously curated DVD releases (Lol, The Guatemalan Handshake), the cineastes over at Benten/Watchmaker proudly announced their first theatrical pickup, the debut feature from Chinese director Zheng Wei. [Benten] Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi Set your DVRs for August, because that's when HBO plans to premiere Festival award winner (Best New Documentary Filmmaker) Ian Olds' stirring work. [The Hollywood Reporter] The Lost Son of Havana The first acquisition of the Festival, Jonathan Hock's documentary is set to air on Espn. [Variety] Festival Films with a Summer Release: Make it...
- 5/6/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
Let's start this week's Indie Roundup by noting Eugene Novikov's fine article on seven indies that deserve a little love in the next few months. Beyond his picks, my indie summer begins with Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control. Jarmusch is an idiosyncratic director who continues to riff on some of the same themes that have occupied his subtle, haunting, and beautiful films since the 1980s. His latest, photographed by Christopher Doyle, follows a mysterious loner (Isaach De Bankolé) who journeys across Spain. It opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday before expanding in the following weeks.
Deals. Zheng Wei's drama Fish Eyes, which is screening this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, has been picked up by Benten/Watchmaker Films. Shot on a tiny budget with non-professional actors, and set during the period between the Sichuan earthquake and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the film revolves around a father,...
Deals. Zheng Wei's drama Fish Eyes, which is screening this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, has been picked up by Benten/Watchmaker Films. Shot on a tiny budget with non-professional actors, and set during the period between the Sichuan earthquake and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the film revolves around a father,...
- 4/30/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
- True cinephiles/film journalists Andrew Grant and nm3443936 autoAaron Hillis
- 4/29/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
The eighth edition of the Tribeca Film Festival -- the first under the leader ship of Geoff Gilmore, formerly of Sundance -- kicks off Wednesday.
The schedule includes high-profile directors such as Woody Allen (the opening-night "Whatever Works"), Spike Lee ("Kobe Doin' Work" and "Passing Strange") and Steven Soderbergh ("The Girlfriend Experience").
But the real fun of any festival is discovering an under-the-radar movie. Example: "Fish Eyes,...
The schedule includes high-profile directors such as Woody Allen (the opening-night "Whatever Works"), Spike Lee ("Kobe Doin' Work" and "Passing Strange") and Steven Soderbergh ("The Girlfriend Experience").
But the real fun of any festival is discovering an under-the-radar movie. Example: "Fish Eyes,...
- 4/19/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
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