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AFI FEST Unveils Inaugural Young Americans & New Auteurs Sections
Kudos to the AFI FEST for setting up an important sidebar that will expose the best that the next generation of filmmakers have to offer. Bumping up their crop of exciting new auteur cinema, sections labeled "Young Americans" and "New Auteurs" (Cannes heavy) are showcases you'll want to keep an eye on - I can vouch on a good chunk of titles already selected.
Lou Taylor Pucci Leads Foursome in Indie Drama ‘All Together Now’
He might not have broken out like the Joseph Gordon Levitts in the biz, but for Lou Taylor Pucci, Hollywood's loss, is indie world's win. Along with often used indie film role actor (who we recently spotted in Mike Mills' Beginners), we find Stella Maeve, James Duval and Nora Kirkpatrick in Alexander Tavitian's debut film.
IFC Serve Themselves a Plate of Winterbottom’s ‘The Trip’
As of late, IFC have food some comfort food in the works of Michel Winterbottom. The filmmaker who is now tackling the well versed in the mass media tale of the Amanda Knox Murder Case, had recently delivered a two-hour cut of The Trip at TIFF --- a downsized version from 6 television episodes that has or is about to air in the U.K.
Recommended Viewing: HBO’s Sins of My Father & PBS’ A Letter to Elia
Tonite, you've got the choice of not one, but two documentary films making their television premieres. After Venice, Telluride and NYFF premieres, PBS are wasting no time in releasing Martin Scorsese/Kent Jones documentary A Letter To Elia on American Masters [9:00-10:30 PM/ET].
Ariane Labed and Aggeliki Papoulia Like View From the ‘Alps’
Thesps Aggeliki Papoulia (Dogtooth) and Ariane Labed (the recent winner for Best Actress at Venice Int. Film Festival for Attenberg) will topline Giorgos Lanthimos' third film, Alps.
