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November 19, 2008
Fresh on the heels of 2005’s critical hit “Kings And Queen,” Arnaud Desplechin is returning to American screens this fall with his new film, “A Christmas Tale” (Un Conte de Noel). Already a hit on the international festival circuit, “A Christmas Tale” is also Desplechin’s most successful release to date; international box-office receipts for the film have exceeded ,000,000. indieWIRE caught up with Desplechin after his recent New York Film Festival screenings to discuss the film and his…
August 20, 2008
With his first slate of programming as co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival announced this morning, Cameron Bailey can take a quick breather before the 33rd edition of the festival begins two weeks from Thursday. “Now that we actually have the selection done and out there in public its just a huge, huge feeling of gratification,” Bailey said in an interview with indieWIRE this afternoon. A longtime international programmer for the festival, Bailey was appointed co-director…
August 6, 2008
EDITORS NOTE: This interview was originally published during “Patti Smith: Dream of Life”’s premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival
July 31, 2008
Director Dorothy Fadiman’s doc “Stealing America: Vote By Vote” centers on the democratic integrity of the United States in the last two Presidential elections. For more than thirty years, exit polls accurately predicted election results. Over the last ten years that reliability has disappeared. The last two Presidential elections both came down to a relatively small number of votes, and in both elections the integrity of the voting process has been called into question. With the upcoming…
July 31, 2008
[EDITOR'S NOTE: IFC First Take opens "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" in limited release Friday, August 1.] The saga of Alex Holdridge that culminated with his third feature, “In Search of a Midnight Kiss,” follows a whimsical plot similar to the charming comedy resulting from it. Holdridge’s own story involves upbeat expectations, crushing disappointment, unexpected personal revelations and, finally, an optimistic eye toward the future. The movie came about somewhere in the middle of that journey…
July 27, 2008
Director Jeremy Gosch’s doc “Bustin’ Down the Door” spotlights surfing as a pastime to pro sport in the Hawaii scene of the 1970s. Co-written with wife, Monika Gosch and narrated by Edward Norton, the film takes a look at a group of young people who put it all on the line to create a phenomenon and an industry that is worth bilions of dollars today. “Bustin’” focuses on six surfers from Australia and South Africa who strived for recognition for their talents and surfings place in the imagination…
July 27, 2008
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Miramax Films will open "Brideshead Revisited" Friday, July 25 in limited release.] Bringing “Brideshead Revisited” to the screen presented a trifecta of challenges. Director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock had to compress and reconfigure Evelyn Waugh’s layered, elegiac novel, while finding a visual equivalent to convey its famously lyrical prose. In a work that Waugh conceived as a paean to the power of Catholicism they had to highlight themes…
July 27, 2008
New Yorkers are lucky to have one of the strongest public television stations in the country. Where the rest of the nation calls it PBS, we know it as Channel 13, and for more than a dozen years, it has hosted some of the most cutting edge filmmaking for, by and about New Yorkers, during the annual Reel New York Film Festival, currently a month into its 13th season at the difficult hour of 12:30 AM on Friday nights. Thank God for DVR.
July 27, 2008
Mark and Jay Duplass recognize the irony of their setting. Sitting in a massive conference room in a Manhattan hotel, the brothers provide a strikingly informal contrast to the lavish decor. Shirts comfortably untucked, they toy around with a couple bruised apples and slovenly place their elbows on the table. It’s a reasonable display of contentment. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the sibling filmmakers’ low budget sophomore feature, “Baghead,” landed a generous…
July 21, 2008
John Crowley is, above all, an Exception, with a capital ‘E.’ One, he became a highly regarded established theater director in his native Ireland, but was able to cross over into the medium of film with equal success. And two, he has shown himself masterful in two completely different film genres and styles. To elaborate: Crowley’s first feature, “Intermission” (2003), was an ensemble piece in which multiple (mostly raunchy) Irish characters crisscrossed through 11 different storylines, which…