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Weekend Rental: Straw Dogs
With lensing beginning this month for the Screen Gems remake (with Rod Lurie directing and Kate Bosworth and James Marsden starring as the traumatized couple), I thought we should point to the original - a film that by today's standards still qualifies itself as a bizarre, trippy concoction.
Tracking Shot August 2009: Petits Mouchoirs, Pieds Nus and Barney’s Version
This August (2009), we are keeping tabs on: a Canadian financed pic with top tier talent, that for the next weeks becomes known as the film that the radiant Rachelle Lebevre committed to and which annoyed Summit Ent., the re-appearance of The Details (it receives a second life), three French filmmakers (Julie Bertucelli, Fabienne Berthaud) on their sophomore efforts and Guillaume Canet on pic number three and finally, master filmmaker Mike Leigh is getting set for his latest project for Focus Features.
Remains of the Day: Ambrosino takes LA Shorts, Webb Takes on Jesus, Scott Takes on Aliens
Former IONCINEMA.com writer Justin Ambrosino takes the 2009 LA Shorts Fest award for "Best of the Fest" for The 8th Samurai. This also qualifies his to be eligible for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Academy Award consideration. Way to go Justin!
Sophie Barthes
I wrote the script for Paul Giamatti. Luckily, I won a screenplay competition at the Nantucket Film Festival in 2006 and by a strange coincidence meet Paul in person, who was there to present an award to Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. I told him about the dream. He got intrigued. Few days later he read the script and accepted the role. This never happens. It was beginner’s luck.
Interview: Bill Benenson (Dirt!: The Movie)
Then a friend gave me "Dirt, the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth" and we found out that not only was Dirt made up of Stardust but that Dirt was / is also alive. And we were off and running toward making the film when I discussed this with Gene.
