More Sundance 2010 Winners: SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
Sundance 2010 Winners: WINTER’S BONE, ANIMAL KINGDOM, RESTREPO, THE RED CHAPEL
Sundance 2010 special jury prizes went to the following: Sympathy for Delicious, directed by Mark Ruffalo and written by Christopher Thornton, who starred as a recently paralyzed DJ hooked on faith healing (Orlando Bloom plays a rocker in this one); Josh Fox’s documentary GasLand, about the effects of natural gas on air and water; and Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath’s Enemies of the People, a chronicle of Cambodia’s troubled modern history.
Additionally, Tatiana Maslany won a special jury prize for breakout performance for her precocious teenager in Adriana Maggs‘ Grown Up Movie Star.
The cinematography awards went to Zak Mulligan for Diane Bell’s Obselidia; Kirsten [...]
by Steve Montgomery | January 30, 2010
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Tags: Film Awards, Grown Up Movie Star, Homewrecker, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Mark Ruffalo, Obselidia, Sundance 2010, Sundance Film Festival, Sympathy for Delicious, The Man Next Door
Sundance Winners: WINTER’S BONE, ANIMAL KINGDOM, RESTREPO, THE RED CHAPEL
Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone (top); Joel Edgerton in Animal Kingdom (middle); Kate Mara, Josh Radnor in Happythankyoumoreplease (bottom)
Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s Restrepo, David Michod’s Animal Kingdom, and Mads Bruegger’s The Red Chapel were the four top jury prize winners at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone chronicles a teenage girl’s difficult passage to full-fledged adulthood in the rural Ozarks, while the documentary Restrepo follows a group of American soldiers in war torn Afghanistan. In the Australian drama Animal Kingdom, starring Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Luke Ford, and Joel Edgerton, a Melbourne crime family reaches a crisis point, while in the documentary The Red Chapel Danish filmmaker Brueggers takes a quirky look [...]
by Steve Montgomery | January 30, 2010
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Tags: 3 Backyards, Animal Kingdom, David Michod, Film Awards, Juan Carlos Valdivia, Lucy Walker, Smash His Camera, Southern District, Sundance 2010, Sundance Film Festival, The Red Chapel, Waiting for Superman, Winter's Bone
The Kristen Stewart TWILIGHT Effect: WELCOME TO THE RILEYS E-Mail Attack
Twilight fans have been inundating with e-mails potential Welcome to the Rileys buyers, begging them to get the rights to the Kristen Stewart (above) vehicle in which the Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon star plays a pole dancer/sex worker. Directed by Jake Scott and written by Ken Hixon, the drama also stars The Sopranos‘ James Gandolfini as the young woman’s savior.
"PLEASE!! you are all amazing," reads a Welcome2Rileys tweet sent a few hours ago, "but please stop emailing the distributors. we got the message loud and clear. please please stop[.]"
That was followed by "they can’t answer our emails because they r trying to get through all of your emails. I love you all. please stop the attack[.]"
And then: [...]
by Joan Lister | January 30, 2010
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Tags: Jake Scott, James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Sundance 2010, Sundance Film Festival, The Runaways, The Twilight Saga, Welcome to the Rileys
Kristen Stewart’s THE RUNAWAYS Reviews: Sundance 2010
In The Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt calls Kristen Stewart’s performance as The Runaways singer Joan Jett "the driving force" of Floria Sigismondi’s debut narrative film The Runaways, which co-stars Dakota Fanning and Michael Shannon. Tatum O’Neal, a child star and already an Oscar winner at the time Jett’s band came to prominence in the mid-’70s, has a supporting role in the film.
At Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman says he was curious to see if Stewart "could leave her swoony Twilight mopiness behind her and play a rock & roll princess with down-and-dirty spunk. (Verdict: She can.)"
Honeycutt was less impressed with the drama itself, calling The Runaways "neither a biopic nor a concert film … the film does prefer music and [...]
by Arthur Leander | January 25, 2010
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Tags: Dakota Fanning, Floria Sigismondi, Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart, Sundance 2010, Sundance Film Festival, The Runaways
8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION Premiere: Sundance 2010
Reed Cowan’s 8: The Mormon Proposition received two "sustained standing ovations" at its Sundance Film Festival screening on Sunday, reports Sean P. Means in The Salt Lake Tribune. A rumored protest against the film failed to materialize.
Narrated by Milk’s Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black — who happens to be gay and to have been raised Mormon — 8: The Mormon Proposition accuses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of offering insidious support to California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages in the state.
According to Means’ article, "some in the audience cried when hearing stories of gay men and lesbians recounting discrimination they have suffered. Others hissed when Utah [...]
by Andre Soares | January 25, 2010
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Tags: 8: The Mormon Proposition, Documentaries, Dustin Lance Black, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Lesbian Interest, Reed Cowan, Religion, Sundance 2010, Sundance Film Festival