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Strand Grabs Unique Downward Spiral Docu ‘The Arbor’
If you'd want to follow Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank with a future recommended viewing, I don't think I'd be too off topic in suggesting Strand Releasing's latest pick-up. Described by Eric Kohn as a "document of grief", Clio Barnard's The Arbor, is an innovative portrait of playwright Andrea Dunbar, who at the age of fifteen wrote a play that would be performed in NYC and it basically describes her experiences as a pregnant teenager with an abusive drunken father.
Bullock and Carell May Have Faith in ‘The Abstinence Teacher’
Religious zealots take notice. After delivering the performance of her lifetime in a meat, potatoes and gravy Oscar winning-dish, Sandra Bullock might be going against the grain with The Abstinence Teacher, a picture filled with Tom Perrotta's trademark humor.
Neil Jordan’s To Tackle Dark Comedy with ‘Skippy Dies’
A fan of book to film adaptations, after previously being tipped to direct Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box, Neil Jordan has now set his sights on a feature adaptation of Paul Murray's Skippy Dies, a set in Ireland, dark comedy that will be set up by Number 9 Films' Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen and James Flynn's Littlewave Film Productions.
First Look: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg
Greece's Attenberg might be part of the lesser known titles among the twenty-two hopefuls for the 67th Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion, but for those keeping a watchful eye on national cinema trends, already know about about the film's author in filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari and the film's producer in Giorgos Lanthimos' (filmmaker behind Dogtooth) contributions to a new brand of destabilizing Greek cinema.
Venice Horizons: Jose Luis Guerin, Paul Morrissey and Sion Sono
Deemed as re-branding of the section, a more eclectic melange of titles mixing short, medium length pics, documentaries film and feature length items, of the items that will generate the most interest are the opening and closing titles which were revealed the week before, but we should see media coverage mentions on Paul Morrissey's News From Nowhere, Jose Luis Guerin's docu Guest (I've yet to see 2007/2008's In the City of Sylvia) and Sion Sono's Cold Fish and short film offerings from Guillermo Arriaga, Isaac Julien and Clara Law.
