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Sundance 2010: Interview with Michael Mohan (One Too Many Mornings)
I also made popcorn up at the Directors and Screenwriters Labs. This was probably the best job any aspiring filmmaker could have - it was like auditing the most progressive and exclusive grad school. I was able to sit in on every advisor meeting, I was right there observing the development of some incredible filmmakers.
Sundance 2010: David Michod’s Animal Kingdom
Today must have been a fairly special day for David Michod -- the filmmaker saw two of his works receive their world preem debuts. First Hesher was shown midday (he receives a co-screenwriter cred) and he directed my most anticipated film in Animal Kingdom - a crime drama that only confirms what I discovered with in his shorts films: we've got a major talent on our hands from Down Under.
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is the Most Anticipated Films of 2010!
I've yet to know if this is two films (what's the deal with the IMAX rumor?)...which would only be an added bonus, but from what I do know, this is an ambitious, all encompassing project with major talents working side by side Malick in Alexandre Desplat (score) and Emmanuel Lubezki (cinematography).
Sundance 2010: Spencer Susser’s Hesher
A downright delicious, dark film that is equal parts comedy and drama, this throws a molotov cocktail to your standard film that deals with sorrow and grief -- at first I was thinking that Spencer Susser's Hesher was set to describe the bully rapport between victimizer and victim, but it plunges its set of characters on this uneasy course of mayhem and destabilization....
Sundance 2010: Interview with Kevin Asch (Holy Rollers)
I remember sitting in Danny's apartment five years ago hearing him tell this true tale and his desire to make it into a Jewish-type "Goodfellas" and an ecstasy-esque "Blow" but I was immediately struck with the image of a naïve Hassid lost in the bright lights of a nightclub, plus me being Jewish and coming-of-age during the nineties in New York City, I instantly felt a personal connection.
