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Interview: Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
Not surprisingly, Durkin won Best Director in Park City, Fox Searchlight picked up the rights during the fest and the quality speaks for itself as it was invited for its international premiere in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes.
Interview: Brady Corbet (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
Playing a supporting character in Sean Durkin's brilliant film debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, actor Brady Corbet's "recruiter" character is the only player to cross into the feature from Durkin's previous short film, the linked, Cannes-winning Mary Last Seen. Corbet is in a rather interesting phase in his career.
21st Gotham Noms: Martha Marcy May Marlene Grabs 3 Noms But No Best Feature Kudo
Continuing with their policy of spreading the joy in all categories, the Gotham independent film award nominations has Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants” leading the pack with three noms each, but mysteriously it is Durkin's gem that is pushed aside in a Best Feature category that includes Fox Searchlight's The Descendants and Tree of Life, the other best indie film of the year in Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter, and a pair of films that many of us associate to 2010 in Meek's Cutoff and Beginners.
Tracking Shot October 2011: Kim Jee-woon, Jonathan Glazer and Zal Batmanglij
At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October 2011, we are keeping tabs on a five projects including an Arnold Schwarzenegger, 30 million dollar action project which we would normally never include on such a list. Last Stand has I Saw the Devil's Kim Jee-woon directing which means this could be bad-ass in terms of tone and style.
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.
