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Allison Anders to ‘Smile Now Cry Later’ in the Fall
Not sure if Echo Park's gentrification will be part of the storyline, but according to Production Weekly, Allison Anders is in comeback mode form and looking to update the characters in her 1993 film, Mi vida loca. The Latino female driven character drama titled Smile Now Cry Later will begin shooting this Fall ...
Class of 2010?: Love Ranch, The Concert, Biutiful, The Tempest and The Illusionist
With the final Gala and Special Presentation announcements for TIFF out of the way, and unless Telluride, BFI London and Rome reveal some major world premiere coups, we can expect to see new works from Alejandro González Iñárritu, Taylor Hackford, Géla Babluani, Radu Mihaileanu, Mark Ruffalo, Olivier Dahan, Julie Taymor, Sylvain Chomet only in 2010.
IFC Take Plunge into ‘Fish Tank’
How Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank was left on the table for this long is incomprehensible. Sure its a bit rough around the edges, but this contains perhaps the most memorable debut performance from an actress this year (Kate Jarvis) and Arnold with her sophomore feature proves she is neither a flash in a pan, or a "fish" out of the water.
TIFF 2009: The Road, Mother and Child and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done and maybe, The Illusionist?
World preems (Mother and Child, L’Affaire Farewell, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I, Don Giovanni), Venice titles (The Road, A Single Man, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Baaria) and a Telluride pic in Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done are part of the Gala and Special Presentations and among the last batch of titles announced for the 2009 edition of the Toronto Film Festival.
Exclusive Clip: Uli Edel’s The Baader Meinhof Complex
I've yet to see "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex", a.k.a the German film that received one of the five slots for the Best Foreign Picture nomination at last year's Oscars. The Baader Meinhof Complex also happens to be: the last of the nominations to receive its theatrical release (via Vitagraph Films on August 21st).
