AFI FEST 2009: THE ROAD, EASIER WITH PRACTICE
Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road (top); Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice (bottom)
Tonight, Wed., Nov. 4, at AFI FEST 2009 in Hollywood:
The Road has been getting a lot of Oscar buzz for star Viggo Mortensen, director John Hillcoat, and for the film itself, a futuristic father-son adventure drama set in a post-apocalyptic world.
In Eduardo Coutinho’s documentary Moscow, the director of a theater group in Brazil’s third largest city sets out to stage a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s Easier with Practice sounds like an unusual road movie, one in which a book author (Brian Geraghty) traveling with his brother (Kel O’Neill) becomes emotionally attached to a sexy voice on the phone. Could his brother have something [...]
by Andre Soares | November 4, 2009
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AFI FEST 2009: Phone Sex Gets EASIER WITH PRACTICE
Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice
Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s feature-film debut Easier with Practice, CineVegas Grand Jury Award winner and Best International Feature at the Edinburgh Film Festival, will screen at the AFI FEST 2009 on Wed., November 4, at 10 p.m.
Easier with Practice tells the story of a writer (Brian Geraghty of The Hurt Locker) who, in a desperate attempt to promote his still-unpublished novel, hits the road with his younger brother (Kel O’Neill) on a self-planned book tour. Things don’t go very well at first, but when out of the blue a sexy female voice calls the writer at his ordinary motel room — to ask what he’s wearing, no less — everything changes. The phoning couple [...]
by Andre Soares | October 29, 2009
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Edinburgh Film Festival Awards 2009
2009 Edinburgh Film Festival Awards
2009 Edinburgh Film Festival: June 17-28, 2009
After spending three years at a moon base extracting a gas needed to reverse Earth’s energy crisis, an astronaut (Sam Rockwell) is about to return to his home planet when he starts seeing and hearing things. His company has apparently come up with an eerie retirement plan of their own.
Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film: Moon directed by Duncan Jones
Best Performance in a British Feature Film: Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank
Best New International Feature: Easier with Practice by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Best Documentary: Boris Ryzhy by Aliona van der Horst
Best British Short Film: After Tomorrow by Emma Sullivan
Best International Short Film: Princess Margaret BLVD directed by Kazik Radwanksi
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by Deborah Arthur | July 3, 2009
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Tags: Boris Ryzhy, Duncan Jones, Easier with Practice, Edinburgh Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Fish Tank, Humpday, Katie Jarvis, Moon
