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Jesse Peretz Finds Female Foursome to Join ‘My Idiot Brother’
Paul Rudd will reteam with Role Models co-star Elizabeth Banks and a trio of other ladies (Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Rashida Jones) in the Anthony Bregman's Likely Story and Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub's Big Beach produced comedy. In what now appears to be, on paper, director Jesse Peretz's breakout hit (until today, he had forgettable titles in 2001's The Chateau and The Ex), with lensing due to begin next month in the multi-class friendly backdrop of New York, The Idiot Brother should be readied for a Sundance showcase, only the overbearing mother is left to cast -- it should be significant role that could make, break, shake the tone of the picture.
Ralph Ziman’s Top Ten Films of All Time
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire visionary directors of our time? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This June we profile Ralph Ziman who will see his third film, Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema receive a limited release in New York, Los Angeles and Houston on June 11th. Here's his Top 10 as of June 2010.
Ralph Ziman
"We wanted to make the film as realistic as possible. We wanted to shoot in real locations with as little dressing as possible. We didn’t want to stop traffic or stop people walking across the background. We did as much as possible by available light or by filling in with practical light sources."
The Cinema Guild Orders More Manoel de Oliveira
The Cinema Guild have put in an order for more Manoel de Oliveira - the 100 plus year old director just preemed The Strange Case of Angelica - an Un Certain Regard Cannes entry last May which received better reviews from Cannes critics than I had anticipated. Currently putting out the Portuguese filmmaker's Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl in a short release with a DVD release coming out in September, Cinema Guild would cap off the year with his latest film - that I imagine will play at TIFF this Fall.
IFP Filmmaker Labs: Rees’s Pariah, Kiernan’s Stuck Between Stations and Mahoney’s Yelling To The Sky Among the 10 Selected Projects
IFP have announced the lucky ten projects that have been selected to participate in this year’s narrative edition of Independent Filmmaker Labs, which officially started yesterday. Among the selected projects, we find a couple we've already been tracking and will probably be seeing this coming January in Park City. We have Dee Rees' Pariah, Andrew Dosunmu's Restless City, the much anticipated Yelling To The Sky from Victoria Mahoney and I'm adding Brady Kiernan's Stuck Between Stations as a film to watch out for.
