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TIFF Bound: Brad Anderson’s Vanishing on 7th Street
File this under confirmed films for TIFF 2010 that have yet to be announced. A strong contender for a Midnight Madness slot, Brad Anderson's Vanishing on 7th Street will perhaps have its North American, and most likely world premiere this September. Anderson who presented The Machinist at the fest several years back, usually shuttles between television work and feature films - with his last pic being the train murder thriller Transsiberian.
Factory 25 Places Straitjacket on Ry Russo-Young’s ‘You Wont Miss Me’
Ry Russo-Young's pseudo fictional experimental account (a breath of fresh air in the context of the 30 odd films I saw at 2009's Sundance Film Festival) will finally receive some a theatrical release via the Factory 25 folks. Albeit it'll be a short two weeks and then a DVD release - which could be read as a derogatory remark of sorts, but instead I'm glad that a new Palm Pictures type of label have emerged.
American New Wave 25: Laura Fox
Whether it's the depleted Americana represented in the chesterfield brown bungalow that the title character from Hesher decides to make his temporary shelter, or the knowledge of what makes for a cubicle layout of an office space easily filmable in (500) Days of Summer, it takes an architecturally sound understanding, a strong know how for the aesthetic described on the pages of a script to make Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character's dwellings into life size representations of the world he inhibits.
Breillat’s Sleeping Beauty and Hong Sang-soo’s ‘Oki’s Movie’ Heading to Venice
I wasn't sure what the status was with Breillat's take on Sleeping Beauty, but I guess I was in the right frame of thinking - as she'll be premiering her second adaptation of a Charles Perrault fable (Bluebeard) on day two of the film festival.
American New Wave 25: Jaffe Zinn
Of all the filmmakers profiled in our American New Wave 25, my guess is that Jaffe Zinn could be the next in line to launch the "film" portion of his career. Like several other folks featured on our list, you could describe Jaffe as a hybrid artist: he is one half of the group Folded Light, an illustrator and the portion that we'll concentrate on is his status as director/writer of Magic Valley - a film that could easily end up in Park City might actually be slotted for the Venice Film Festival sidebar premiere.
