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American New Wave 25: Chris Trujillo
Every Production Designer has an ace or two in their deck – my feeling is that veteran Production Designer Jade Healy's trump card might be Chris Trujillo. Having worked on several low budget NYC-based, independent film productions in 2009 means that, the Art Director can file 2010 as a great breakout year.
Everything Must Go … to TIFF
I had Dan Rush's directorial debut pegged for a Sundance 2011 premiere, but the film which lensed last March, and completed filming in May, is in the can and ready for a red carpet debut at the Toronto Int. Film Festival.
Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine Topline Linklater’s ‘Bernie’
Richard Linklater is reuniting with the lead of his 2003 comedy (The School of Rock) and has tapped Shirley MacLaine to play a wealthy widow in Bernie -- a dark comedy that is currently casting stand-ins and local actors ("interesting" looking folk) for the small town setting of Huntsville, East Texas.
Ethan Hawke is the First to Sign for Zilberman’s ‘A Late Quartet’
Penned by Zilberman and Seth Grossman (The Elephant King), the screenplay has been generating enough buzz that several A-listers are currently attached to the project and Ethan Hawke is the first to join A Late Quartet.
Review: Spring Fever
A heavily flawed film that does a disservice to its quintet of characters by abruptly ending each character's final chapter before it even begins making Spring Fever a film that never manages to find itself. Audiences who've followed his past efforts such as Purple Butterfly and Summer Palace will be puzzled by erotica without reason, by the undefined terms in which the characters are set in and the lack of dramatic focus.
