I got to admit I’m more surprised that Charlotte Rampling has been swooned into taking a role in Todd Solondz's latest project, than I am with the announcement that non-actress Paris Hilton has also joined the project.
You'd think that with the trades are calling the demise of the independent film sector that no one in their right minds would throw themselves in a market in such a downturn.
"Peretz’s latest isn’t trying to be an acerbic statement about the miasma of American livelihood a la Alexander Payne or Todd Solondz, but is rather a sweet-toothed interlude that chugs along on some top notch comedic performances."
Getting his feet wet with a gig on Michael Mayer's A Home at the End of the World, working for Todd Solondz (Palindromes) and adding post-prod assistant experience from Jarmusch's Broken Flowers, Katherine Dieckmann's Diggers and television's The Wire, surely helped trace the route of where this graduate of NYU’s Tisch (2004) is headed, but it's Vacationland, the award-winning thesis short film that earned Lance Edmands his stars.
While I'm more curious about who'll end up with Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime, Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, Rick Jacobson's Bitch Slap, Giuseppe Tornatore epic Baaria and the only Cannes title I think that is remaining and is worth buying (Bong Joon-ho's Mother), after scouring the entire program - I came up with a top 10 list of the high profile films should be high priorities for the buyers.