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Kline in the key of A Fish Called Wanda and up-and-coming actor Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood). More an audience-pleaser than a critics’ favorite, smart marketing could emphasize Extra Man as a must-see arthouse comedy that may mark Ames’ debut as a specialty comedy superst...
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Festival Faves
Tags: Alan Tudyk , American Splendor , Amir Bar-Lev , Australia , Big Love , Blue Valentine , Buried , Cane Toad: The Conquest , Cane Toads: An Unnatural History , David Ansen , Davis Guggenheim , Grown Up Movie Star , Hesher , Isabelle Huppert , Joseph Gordon- Levitt , Katie Holmes , Kevin Kline , Kristen Stewart , Los Angeles Film Festival , Michael Winterbottom , Michelle Williams , Pat Tillman , Paul Dano , Robert Pulcini , Ryan Gosling , Ryan Reynolds , Shari Springer Berman , Shawn Doyle , Someone I Loved , Splice , Tatiana Maslany , The Extra Man , The Imperialists Are Still Alive! , The Kids Are Alright , The Killer Inside Me , The Nannie Diaries , The Seattle International Film Festival , The Tillman Story , Tucker & Dale vs Evil , Tyler Labine , Villa Amalia , Waiting For Superman , Welcome to the Rileys , Winter's Bone , Zeina Durra , afi
UNMINED GEMS (continued) global businessman. This lushly romantic drama by French actress-turned-director Zabou Breitman spends most of its running time reenacting his illicit passion for Mathilde (Marie-Josée Croze), a translator many years his junior, who embraces him in hotel beds on every co...
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Tags: Alan Tudyk , American Splendor , Amir Bar-Lev , Australia , Big Love , Blue Valentine , Buried , Cane Toad: The Conquest , Cane Toads: An Unnatural History , David Ansen , Davis Guggenheim , Grown Up Movie Star , Hesher , Isabelle Huppert , Joseph Gordon- Levitt , Katie Holmes , Kevin Kline , Kristen Stewart , Los Angeles Film Festival , Michael Winterbottom , Michelle Williams , Pat Tillman , Paul Dano , Robert Pulcini , Ryan Gosling , Ryan Reynolds , Shari Springer Berman , Shawn Doyle , Someone I Loved , Splice , Tatiana Maslany , The Extra Man , The Imperialists Are Still Alive! , The Kids Are Alright , The Killer Inside Me , The Nannie Diaries , The Seattle International Film Festival , The Tillman Story , Tucker & Dale vs Evil , Tyler Labine , Villa Amalia , Waiting For Superman , Welcome to the Rileys , Winter's Bone , Zeina Durra , afi
MOVIE MADNESS (continued) All film festivals conform to the same emotional patterns: heady days of optimism at the start when there’s the chance of discovering a masterpiece, growing disenchantment in the middle when the odds have shrunk, followed by depression, physical and mental breakdown and ...
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Tags: Alan Tudyk , American Splendor , Amir Bar-Lev , Australia , Big Love , Blue Valentine , Buried , Cane Toad: The Conquest , Cane Toads: An Unnatural History , David Ansen , Davis Guggenheim , Grown Up Movie Star , Hesher , Isabelle Huppert , Joseph Gordon- Levitt , Katie Holmes , Kevin Kline , Kristen Stewart , Los Angeles Film Festival , Michael Winterbottom , Michelle Williams , Pat Tillman , Paul Dano , Robert Pulcini , Ryan Gosling , Ryan Reynolds , Shari Springer Berman , Shawn Doyle , Someone I Loved , Splice , Tatiana Maslany , The Extra Man , The Imperialists Are Still Alive! , The Kids Are Alright , The Killer Inside Me , The Nannie Diaries , The Seattle International Film Festival , The Tillman Story , Tucker & Dale vs Evil , Tyler Labine , Villa Amalia , Waiting For Superman , Welcome to the Rileys , Winter's Bone , Zeina Durra , afi
NICHE? NO PROBLEM By Amy Nicholson uty who likes beating women. To death. Blow by blow. Blood drop by blood drop. After an indignant post-film Q&A (sample question: “How could you?”), IFC did the unthinkable: they bought it. But if the unnamed price was right, the free publicity could make it a s...
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Tags: Alan Tudyk , American Splendor , Amir Bar-Lev , Australia , Big Love , Blue Valentine , Buried , Cane Toad: The Conquest , Cane Toads: An Unnatural History , David Ansen , Davis Guggenheim , Grown Up Movie Star , Hesher , Isabelle Huppert , Joseph Gordon- Levitt , Katie Holmes , Kevin Kline , Kristen Stewart , Los Angeles Film Festival , Michael Winterbottom , Michelle Williams , Pat Tillman , Paul Dano , Robert Pulcini , Ryan Gosling , Ryan Reynolds , Shari Springer Berman , Shawn Doyle , Someone I Loved , Splice , Tatiana Maslany , The Extra Man , The Imperialists Are Still Alive! , The Kids Are Alright , The Killer Inside Me , The Nannie Diaries , The Seattle International Film Festival , The Tillman Story , Tucker & Dale vs Evil , Tyler Labine , Villa Amalia , Waiting For Superman , Welcome to the Rileys , Winter's Bone , Zeina Durra , afi
NICHE? NO PROBLEM (continued) an appearance. Festivals start working on outreach sometimes months before their fi lms screen. A lot of artfilm distributors don’t really understand local communities. For example, a New York-based distributor doesn’t think to reach out to, say, the Iranian communit...
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Tags: Alan Tudyk , American Splendor , Amir Bar-Lev , Australia , Big Love , Blue Valentine , Buried , Cane Toad: The Conquest , Cane Toads: An Unnatural History , David Ansen , Davis Guggenheim , Grown Up Movie Star , Hesher , Isabelle Huppert , Joseph Gordon- Levitt , Katie Holmes , Kevin Kline , Kristen Stewart , Los Angeles Film Festival , Michael Winterbottom , Michelle Williams , Pat Tillman , Paul Dano , Robert Pulcini , Ryan Gosling , Ryan Reynolds , Shari Springer Berman , Shawn Doyle , Someone I Loved , Splice , Tatiana Maslany , The Extra Man , The Imperialists Are Still Alive! , The Kids Are Alright , The Killer Inside Me , The Nannie Diaries , The Seattle International Film Festival , The Tillman Story , Tucker & Dale vs Evil , Tyler Labine , Villa Amalia , Waiting For Superman , Welcome to the Rileys , Winter's Bone , Zeina Durra , afi
BOXOFFICE DISSECTS THIS YEAR’S BIG INDIE BUYS F estival hits have a risky reputation. Often, they star nobodies and try to take audiences to places no popcornmuncher will boldly go. Like that Sundance 2009 melodrama about an overweight, illiterate, emotionally and physically abused teen. Sure,...
