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Closer Look: Salvador Allende’s Legacy Explored in Pablo Larrain’s Post Mortem
Competing in Venice and showing at NYFF (where it is one among a pair of film offerings from Chile), here are a set of stills for Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem. Such as his last feature Tony Manero, Larrain once again uses the violent backdrop of Allende era to work in certain thematic and atmospheric details.
Closer Look: U.S Indie in English and Tagalog in John Sayles’ Amigo
Richard Linklater filmed in the U.K. Jim Jarmusch made his last in Spain. And John Sayles, we'll he went completely off-course, heading of all places to Manilla. As I was putting this piece together collection of stills, I came across this post, which uncovered the production's blog, trailer and what not. I'll admit to having skipped on Honeydripper - which was also a TIFF presentation, I had no idea that since then, he was working on Amigo, which was first announced as a San Sebastian Film Festival selection, prior to being called out last Tuesday for TIFF.
Carey Mulligan’s ‘Drive’ Leads Her In a New Acting Direction
You have indie actor Ryan Gosling taking the Jason Statham route, and finally, Carey Mulligan, the pint-sized actress might play the bad girl on Drive - a Universal Pictures action burning rubber flick that is set to begin shooting in Los Angeles next month.
Closer Look: Fairy Tale Adventures in Catherine Breillat’s La belle endormie
Make this 2 for 2 for French author Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703) and Catherine Breillat. The controversial French filmmaker is presenting La Belle endormie (Sleeping Beauty) in Venice Film Festival this year and is tipped for TIFF directly after.
Visit Films’ Ryan Kampe and Sylvan Tron Introduce Baxter Bros.
The New York-based duo behind Visit Films -- the International Sales Agents responsible for such films The Myth of the American Sleepover, The Taqwacores, Trash Humpers, The Freebie and Aaron Katz's Cold Weather, are getting into the distribution game with the newly launched division called Baxter Brothers Film Releasing.
