Kyle Patrick Alvarez: EASIER WITH PRACTICE Interview
Brian Geraghty, Kel O’Neill in Easier with Practice
What about Davy Rothbart’s autobiographical GQ article made you decide to adapt it into a movie?
I just really love the way he took this lurid story of having a phone sex relationship and told it through a voice that had honesty and sincerity and humility. It wasn’t about being explicit or risque as it was about being a human story. I just thought that angle was new and fresh, and I could see it working as a film right away, even against the narrative troubles of having extended scenes of someone talking on the phone.
Did the film version stick closely to the original, or …?
The general story of it is [...]
by Andre Soares | February 24, 2010
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EASIER WITH PRACTICE: Q&A with Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Brian Geraghty, Kel O’Neill in Easier with Practice
Easier with Practice, Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s feature-film debut based on an autobiographical article written by Davy Rothbart for GQ, has been getting some pretty good buzz. This psychological drama about human connections in the early 21st century has won the Grand Jury Award at CineVegas and the Best New International Feature Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, in addition to receiving two Spirit Award nominations: Best First Feature Film and Someone to Watch Award (for Alvarez, photo).
Easier with Practice stars The Hurt Locker’s Brian Geraghty as Davy Mitchell and Redacted’s Kel O’Neill as Davy’s younger brother Sean, who set out on a road trip to promote Davy’s as [...]
by Andre Soares | February 24, 2010
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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tells the story of a writer (Brian Geraghty of The Hurt Locker) who, in a desperate attempt to promote his still-unpublished novel, hits the road with his younger brother (Kel O’Neill) on a self-planned book tour.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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