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IFC Curls Up to ‘Myth of the American Sleepover’
The future was already bright for David Robert Mitchell’s The Myth of the American Sleepover when it was accepted at SXSW, transferred over into Cannes' Critics' Week section and then sprawled over into dozens of film fests including next month's AFI Fest. IFC Films have become the cherry on the sundae, picking up the coming-of-age film (think anti-thesis of Larry Clark's Kids) setting it up for a release next year.
If The Kids Are All Right For Summer, so is Focus Features’ Beginners
Taking a page from the positioning they had with The Kids Are All Right on its early July date, Focus Features are in a similar mindset for another smart, thoughtful dramedy. Of course, Beginners was one of the best items offered during TIFF, not Sundance -- this means a different strategy might be needed to maintain that buzz from September all the way up until June 3rd.
Watch What They Write: Ned Vizzini (Author of It’s Kind of a Funny Story)
When an author pens a novel, it often begins as a film in their own mind. The images run across the screen of their imagination, characters grow and develop and it is the writers job to document what they see. Granted not all writing is so cut and dried, sometimes the process is even more reality based. Take Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story.
TIFF 2010: Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job
Following his take on the Iraq blunder with No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson's sophomore documentary serves up a toxic dish on how greed and complex Ponzi-like schemes essentially placed the U.S, and other invested nations into some deep dodo. Inside Job serves as a 101 on the financial crisis and proves that its business as usual on Wall Street and in Washington, this includes Obama.
Kino Steals ‘The Robber’ From NYFF
In 2010, Kino International have proven to have impeccable taste buds for cinema nabbing a trio of imports that IONCINEMA.com has been high on since they preemed at Cannes (Le Quattro Volte, Tuesday, After Christmas and My Joy).
