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SPC Get Off on ‘Hysteria’; Post TIFF Deal is Perfect for Distributor’s Demo
"Stimulated" by their most recent pick-up in TIFF audience award's Where Do We Go Now?, Sony Pictures Classics are supposedly, as we had suggested prior to its world premiere, interested in another crowd-pleaser in Tanya Wexler's Hysteria.
Andrew Haigh’s Top 10 Films of All-Time
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. This month we feature Andrew Haigh whose Weekend was released to in late September via Sundance Selects. Here are Andrew Haigh's Top 10 Films of All Time as of October 2011.
Andrew Haigh
"I wanted a gentle realism, verging on documentary. I also wanted to create a sense of intimacy with the audience and the characters on screen, as if we had been invited in by them, to watch them, to experience the weekend as they do. My influences are pretty varied from filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt, Ramin Bahrani and Joe Swanberg to the the photography of the artists Quinnford and Scout."
A Multi-stop Bolero Aiming for an Animated Oscar Nom; GKIDS Creates New Label for ‘Chico & Rita’
Although it was announced just yesterday, we know that GKIDS, the animation distributor folks who brought us Michel Ocelot’s Azur & Asmar, Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues and Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells, were dancing the bolero around Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s Chico & Rita when it was presented at TIFF last year.
Dominic Cooper Goes Non-Verbal for Motor City; Blacklist Script Finds its Lead
When first news broke out that Albert Hughes would be directing, there was a mention of Chris Evans might be toplining the Black List revenge flick, but according to Variety, it is Dominic Cooper (who recently proved he could do gangster with a high pitched voice in The Devil's Double) who'll go behind bars for Warner Bros.' Motor City.
