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#250 | Aug 26, 2008 |
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Kentucker Audley (real name: Andrew Nenninger) first began making waves when Filmmaker Magazine identified him during Summer 2007 as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. While fellow list alum Azazel Jacobs's Momma's Man hits theaters, Audley's first feature Team Picture - spotted in a handful of regional festivals and screened during last summer's much-discussed IFC Center series The New Talkies: Generation DIY (the birthplace of a thousand mumblecore think-pieces) - arrives on DVD today from Benten Films. Vadim Rizov talks with Audley about the feature and the two shorts that accompany it on the DVD. Read Full Article >> |
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In This Dispatch:
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Timely release. Brett Morgen's film about the buildup and unraveling of the '68 Chicago Conspiracy trial is "grade-A agitpop," wrote Ty Burr in the Boston Globe, "a mixture of archival footage and cheeky, creative animated reconstruction that's funny and frightening in equal measure." Adds Cinematical: "one of the most creative and entertaining documentary films in years." Great voice cast, too, including: Mark Ruffalo, Hank Azaria, Nick Nolte, Jeffrey Wright, Dylan Baker, Liev Schreiber and, in his last valedictory performance, Roy Scheider as Judge Hoffman. More here >> |
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"Perhaps the most ingeniously imaginative element in Son of Rambow, .a film exploding with imagination," wrote Sean Axmaker, "is its very conceit." Garth Jennings' film is set 1980s Britain, where young Will Proudfoot is raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden. When Will encounters his first movie, a pirated copy of Rambo: First Blood, his imagination is blown wide open. "Funny and sweet and guaranteed to flood you with good feeling," adds the Austin Chronicle. |
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Also out today: Redbelt [ interview >>];
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (Criterion);
Artifacts;
August;
Team Picture [interview >>];
Heroes: Season 2;
Cimarron (remake by Anthony Mann);
Escape From Fort Bravo;
The Stalking Moon (see below); Never Say Macbeth;
Resurrection Mary;
Werner Herzog: In Conversation with Karen Beckman;
Mr. Cinema;
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? [more >>];
What Happens in Vegas;
Love for Sale (see below);
The Black House;
Bangkok Love Story ;
Where the Wild Things Are;
Death Note Volume 6;
Kujibiki Unbalance Volume 3: Melancholy of Ritsuko;
Red Garden Volume 6: To Die Forever. New and Coming Releases lists | Your Queue | Discuss! | GreenCine's review blog: Guru | GC Member Reviews and Lists | New DVD Spotlight |
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What We're Watching |
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There's a strong whiff of feminism to Love For Sale, the rather trite title given the US release of a Brazilian movie called O Céu de Suely (Suely's Sky). Fortunately, rather than weighing down this sad, slight (82 minutes plus credits) story, the sense of feminism that we get from the main character Hermilla (and her pseudonym Suely) is one of a damaged woman who must somehow find herself against heavy odds. She has trusted, loved and been betrayed by a man and now, with a young son to raise, she comes back to her hometown and family -- and tries to start anew. As played by a lovely and strong young actress named Hermila Guedes... read the review >>
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What can you say about a family that surfs? Apparently, plenty -- on the basis of the riveting documentary Surfwise -- but less so concerning the Australian film Bra Boys. The former, written and directed by Doug Pray (Scratch, Big Rig), tells the tale of the Paskowitz family, father Dorian "Doc," mother Juliette and their nine or ten children (truthfully, I lost count)--all of them boys except for a single girl. Dorian, a champion surfer, was indeed a doctor...
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From DVD Beaver: "This fierce amalgam of Western and horror movie was the last of seven collaborations between director Robert Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula, of which To Kill a Mockingbird was the peak. The Stalking Moon isn't peak material, but it's a demonically effective palm-sweater, and fascinating as a prelude to Pakula's own breakout as director of the great paranoid trilogy Klute, The Parallax View, and All the President's Men. Robert Forster has an early role as a fellow, part-Indian scout." Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint star in this odd, underrated Western which is out on DVD for the first time today.
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Special Promotions |
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Burn After Reading [trailer] world-premiered as the opening-night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival; a dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. An ousted CIA official's (John Malkovich) memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) intent on exploiting their find. George Clooney and Tilda Swinton also star. The film opens in theaters September 12, but right now GreenCine and Focus Features are teaming up to give you an early start with a Burn After Reading contest! Details >> |
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Love of Labor
