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Vera Farmiga Among Fivesome Grazing with ‘Goats’
Vera Farmiga, David Duchovny, Keri Russell, Minnie Driver and Will Arnett have filled up the adults portion of the casting process for Goats, the screen adaptation of Mark Poirier's novel. Graham Phillips who is unknown in these circles appears already set in the lead teenage protag role and Ty Burrell is also on board.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress
Its been thirteen years since he completed his yuppie trilogy with The Last Days of Disco (I remember my videoclub having one copy and waiting interminably for its return - I did see it but preferred Metropolitan, which was my Breakfast Club several years after Breakfast Club). What I'm expecting is the best film about preppy campus youth since The Rules of Attraction, actually scratch that, this year's The Social Network.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Virginie Despentes’ Bye Bye Blondie
It's been a decade since Rape Me, the road-trip fueled with sex and violence which stirred up controversy on at least one side of the Atlantic (it was pulled after one week in the U.S), but the reason why we're curious about this specimen hasn't got much to do with the skills Virginie Despentes displayed with her off-putting directing debut, but rather how she'll translate characters that were first introduced in her book back in 2004 with a pairing that includes Béatrice Dalle and Emmanuelle Béart.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Liza Johnson’s Return
Short film filmmaker and installation work artist Liza Johnson is among of the folks that we included in our inaugural American New Wave 25 series, and we're expecting a breath of fresh air in the subject matter she examines in her feature debut. In cinema, post-traumatic stress disorder following war traumas has been done to death, but I'm betting this discourse might have a little more to offer than previous viewpoints -- the small town template includes a shifting of the family paradigm and if the perf is well-calibrated then I think we might see Scooby Doo thesp Linda Cardellini's name mentioned during awards season same time next year.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Julius Onah’s The Girl is in Trouble
I bet you this is the only "thesis" film in the Top 100 list. Among Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film people of 2010, the first of several first-time filmmakers on our list, Julius Onah' debut is backed by executive producer Spike Lee and comes carrying an eclectic combination of young players in Columbus Short, Wilmer Valderrama and Alicja Bachleda.
