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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Gus Van Sant’s Restless
Admittedly, I'm pretending I haven't seen the film's trailer and pretending that I know nothing about Columbia Pictures snubbing the 2010 calendar or canceling the pegged January date. Based on the Black List script, lensed by the great Harris Savides and directed by Gus Van Sant (the Good Will Hunting not the Paranoid Park kind).
Jeff Nichols to be Knee Deep in Mississippi ‘Mud’
There's plenty of reasons to be excited for where Jeff Nichols will venture to next. His sophomore film, Take Shelter is high up on our must see list for this upcoming Sundance Film Festvial edition and from what I gather, it'll lyrically share some of the DNA we found in his debut film Shotgun Stories.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Saya Samurai
Big Man Japan and 2009's Symbol proved that Matsumoto is a comic genius -- you still need to have a particular sense of humor/have seen these Japanese imports to get why his absurdist, abstract tone rubs off critics the right way. It just so happens that the filmmaker became a father last year, and while I'm sure that the birth of a child hasn't mellowed out the filmmaker, it'll be of interest to see if/how he projects some of the fatherhood issues he might be dealing with, in this -- his third film.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret
It's been a long, very long six years since shooting has been completed on Kenneth Lonergan's sophomore film. People have passed on, actors in the film have aged, not sure when Lonergan gets to upload this monkey off his back, but I imagine Fox Searchlight have festival plans for this aged item from the vault.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Jill Sprecher’s The Convincer
The Sprecher sisters were at some point in their career referred to as the "Coen sisters" --- but that nickname has more to do with geographical location and not their output, as Sprecher's last film, a very good sophomore pic called 13 Conversations About One Thing was released about a decade back.
