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Last Friday, the veteran Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard reflected on his life, career and latest project — Joachim Trier’s Cannes Grand Prize-winning dramedy Sentimental Value, in which Skarsgard plays a veteran filmmaker who has a complicated family life — during a recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in front of a packed house at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

The 74-year-old, who was in town to receive the fest’s highest honor for an individual, the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, had the crowd enraptured and often in stitches. He discussed how he broke into the biz when he was just 16. He dished on colorful collaborators ranging from Ingmar Bergman to David Fincher. And he dissected his varied adventures in art house films (e.g. his five collaborations with Lars von Trier, most notably 1996’s Breaking the Waves), studio movies (e.

Neon released the first U.S. trailer for Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” showcasing Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård as a fractured father-daughter pair whose uneasy rapprochement is complicated when Elle Fanning’s Hollywood interloper joins their Norwegian household. The feature captured the Grand Prix at Cannes on 21 May after a prolonged standing ovation, positioning it as Norway’s frontrunner for the next International Feature Oscar race.

Trier co-wrote the script with long-time collaborator Eskil Vogt; their story follows stage actor Nora and sister Agnes confronting their celebrated but self-absorbed director father Gustav, who casts a young American star in a thinly veiled film about their family. The ensemble rounds out with Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Cory Michael Smith and Catherine Cohen, while Kasper Tuxen handles cinematography and Polish composer Hania Rani supplies the score.

Production companies from six European nations backed the €18 million drama, shot largely in Oslo and the...

Stellan Skarsgård as the stern father and Elle Fanning as a Hollywood starlet in Sentimental Value Photo: Kasper Tuxen/Mubi

Besides special guest Michael Douglas (already announced) more stellar names from the international film arena are lining up to take the waters of the Czech Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary during the annual film festival which opens in nine days, running from 4 to 12 July.

Vicky Krieps - Karlovy Vary President’s Award Photo: Film Servis Kviff) Sweden’s Stellan Skarsgård has been wooed with the accolade of a Crystal Globe for “outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema” and will present his new film Sentimental Value by Norway’s Joachim Trier, a touching family drama, which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix award in May. It’s the story of two sisters, Nora and Agnes (Renate Reinsve playing opposite Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), their estranged father, Gustav (played by...

With the final weekend of the 78th Cannes Film Festival in sight, it’s time to project who gets the biggest launching pad for the upcoming Oscar season by walking away with the coveted Palme d’Or.

Based on critical reception, audience ovations, and speaking with several sources on the ground and close to the jury members, a handful of films have clearly separated themselves from the pack — none more so than “Sentimental Value,” Joachim Trier’s incisive father-daughter drama that’s become the buzziest title on the Croisette.

Distributed by Neon, which is aiming for an unprecedented sixth consecutive Palme win — after “Parasite,” “Titane,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Anatomy of a Fall” and “Anora” — “Sentimental Value” received the most enthusiastic standing ovation of the festival. Trier, a Cannes veteran whose “The Worst Person in the World” nabbed Best Actress in 2021, seems poised for a coronation.

However, could it be that easy?...

The film opens on a family home so laden with memories it seems to breathe (and occasionally creak in protest), immediately anchoring us in an atmosphere of lingering echoes. Nora Borg, a celebrated Oslo stage actress, stands frozen in her costume—panic attacks her unseen co-star—while outside, the world demands performance.

Her estranged father, Gustav Borg, returns not with flowers or apologies but with a screenplay drawn from the very walls that witnessed his own mother’s final act. It’s therapy by proxy—an auteur’s attempt to excavate buried truths through celluloid rather than confession.

That ancestral mansion, all scarlet timber and sagging floors, serves as both set and symbol: a repository of joy and despair, its very architecture split down the middle like a family portrait gone awry.

When Nora rejects her father’s offer, an American starlet, Rachel Kemp, slides into the vacant role—hair...

Following a failed father and filmmaker attempting to reconnect with his daughters by making a movie in their old family home, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” is a subtle yet sweeping tapestry of art and family that will take your breath away. Assisted by outstanding performances across the board — especially from Renate Reinsve (“The Worst Person in the World”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Andor”) — Trier has made a movie about movies that strikes right at the heart of the art form.

He does so not with one big blow, but in the steady accumulation of emotional gut punches that offer deep reflections about what it means to create art from a life that is not nearly as neatly packaged as what’s on screen. It’s a rich text, but a focused one, letting the gradual power of what it’s exploring sneak up on you until you are completely swept up in the vision.

“It’s hard to love someone without mercy.”

Sitting across the dinner table from his actress daughter after sweeping back into her life with a high-concept plan for reconciliation, acclaimed filmmaker and absent father Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård) offers that wisdom to Nora (Renate Reinsve) as if directing her on how to forgive him. And in the wake of his ex-wife’s death, that’s precisely what Gustav intends to do — not by apologizing for his decision to leave their family when Nora was still just a child, but rather by casting her in an autobiographical Netflix drama about his own life.

Exploitative as that sounds, Gustav isn’t just hoping to make Nora say the words he’s always longed to hear from his firstborn daughter in exchange for a cut of Ted Sarandos’ money. On the contrary, his plan — like everything else in the transcendently moving “Sentimental Value,...

“The Apprentice,” director Ali Abbasi‘s story of Donald Trump’s rise in the New York real estate world under the tutelage of Machiavellian attorney Roy Cohn, has a visual style that recalls New Hollywood classics like “Midnight Cowboy” and “Taxi Driver.” But as the film becomes more and more about moral disintegration, “The Apprentice” also brings to mind junky broadcast video of the 1980s. Yet for Abbasi, the key reference point was a film with surfaces quite different from those of the gritty, punk rock “Apprentice”: Stanley Kubrick’s stately, elegant 18th-century period piece “Barry Lyndon.”

While the thuggish, urban Trump and Cohn may seem far removed from the genteel European aristocrats of Kubrick’s film, Abbasi said he and screenwriter Gabriel Sherman found many similarities between Trump and the social climber played by Ryan O’Neal.

“There were some really interesting parallels,” Abbasi told IndieWire. “There’s something...

In many ways, Ali Abbasi seemed like just about the ideal choice to helm the first major feature outing on one of our era’s most polarizing figures. Afterall, the breakout director’s lack of a personal connection to the longtime American personality allowed him to approach the origin story without any sense of personal vitriol. But then again, the world had to collectively live through the geopolitical calamity that Donald Trump emerged to be. How do you make a film about his persona and come across as non-polemic, that too less than a month before his second run for becoming arguably the most influential man in public office?

At the same time, the “Holy Spider” filmmaker has shown his flair in dealing with thematic depictions of disgust and exploitation through his work. That’s to say while his latest, “The Apprentice”, doesn’t feel like an all out Democrat-funded tactic,...

IndieWire has published its Cannes 2024 Cinematography Survey. We analyzed the data to explore (again and again) that the nine-year-old camera, Arri Alexa Mini, is the most popular camera among Cannes filmmakers. Furthermore, interestingly, in its first appearance on the Cannes Cinematography Chart and jumped straight to second place, is the Arri 35.

The main cameras of Cannes 2024 are the Arri Alexa Mini and the 35. Cannes 2024 cinematography

The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival is taking place from 14 to 25 May 2024. IndieWire has reached out to the filmmakers behind 59 films screened in various categories in the festival. The DPs elaborated on the tools they utilized to tell their stories. Read the entire survey here.

Official poster of the 77th Cannes Film Festival featuring a still image from the movie Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991)

As the tradition calls, we took the data and filtered it to the cameras used, to explore tendency. Based on the info,...

Anya Taylor-Joy, Billie Eilish, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan and Disney exec Dana Walden are among the 397 artists and executives invited to join the membership of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. If all of this year’s invitees accept membership, it will bring the total number of Academy members to 10,665, with 9,665 eligible to vote for the 95th Oscars set to take place on March 12, 2023.

The 2022 class is 44 women, 37 belong to underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 50 are from 53 countries and territories outside the United States. There are 71 Oscar nominees, including 15 winners, among the invitees. Some of the big names invited are recent winners Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) and Troy Kotsur (“Coda”), and nominees Jessie Buckley (“The Lost Daughter”), Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Power of the Dog”). Also invited are a slew of global artists and artisans such as actors Robin de Jesús, Olga Merediz...

This review was first published on July 9, 2021, after it screened at Cannes 2021.

Norwegian director Joachim Trier continues his series of films about young Oslonians with the charming romantic drama “The Worst Person in the World,” which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film is about the life and loves of a restless 30-year-old woman named Julie — and in the lead role, Renate Reinsve delivers a standout performance. Her Julie is funny and skittishly unsure of herself as she begins a relationship with an established and admired comic book artist, Aksel. He is played by Anders Danielsen Lie, the lead in Trier’s previous Oslo films, “Reprise” and “Oslo, August 31st,” which brings a Richard Linklaterish theme of time and connection to this loose trilogy of people adrift in the city.

But this is Trier’s most appealing and marketable film yet, casting Oslo in a gorgeous light...

Chicago – The Chicago International Film Festival (Ciff) is competitive, and the 57th edition presented its awards on October 22nd, 2021, as a live virtual and online event.. The winner of the Gold Hugo as Best International Film was “Memoria” (Columbia), directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The 57th Chicago International Film Festival continues on Day 11, featuring screenings in theater, at the drive-in and virtual/online. Click here for a complete how-to guide on navigating the 57th Ciff. And click Day 11 for the complete line up of films.

The awards were presented by the various jury members in each film category, and were hosted by Artistic Director Mimi Plauché and Managing Director Vivian Teng. The Festival’s highest honor is the Gold Hugo, named for the mythical God of Discovery.

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‘Memoria’

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The Gold Hugo for Best Film: “Memoria” (Columbia) Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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The analog comeback continues for cinematography, as this week’s Cannes Film Festival boasts 19 titles shot on Kodak film, with eight competing for the Palme D’Or, highlighted by Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (Searchlight Pictures). The multi-layered ode to journalism, with an ensemble cast consisting ofTilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Timothee Chalamet, Lea Seydoux, Benicio del Toro, Elisabeth Moss, Owen Wilson, and Frances McDormand, was shot in both 35mm color and black-and-white by go-to cinematographer Robert Yeoman.

The other Palme D’Or entries shot on film include Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” (Dp Drew Daniels), Ildikó Enyedi’s “The Story of My Wife,” (Dp Marcell Rév), Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Bergman Island” (Dp Denis Lenoir), Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” (Dp Jani-Petteri Passi), Sean Penn’s “Flag Day” (Dp Daniel Moder), Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” (Dp Kasper Tuxen), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” (Dp Sayombhu Mukdeeprom).

Additionally,...

MK2 Films has scored a raft of strong pre-sales on “The Worst Person In The World,” the anticipated third film in Joachim Trier’s “Oslo” trilogy, following “Reprise” and “Oslo, August 31st.” The company has also unveiled a first look still of the film ahead of the virtual EFM, where it will present a promo-reel to buyers.

The Paris-based banner, whose sales team is spearheaded by Fionnuala Jamison, has already sold the film to France (Memento), Benelux (Cineart), Russia (Russian World Vision), Poland (M2 Films), Former Yugoslavia (Mega Com Film) and The Baltics (Kino Pavasaris).

Now in post, the movie’s shoot was initially delayed at the start of the pandemic and was eventually completed in two phases, in August and November 2020. The film is expected to world premiere this summer.

Produced by Thomas Robsahm at Oslo Picture, the film is a comedy drama about love in our times and...

Where's M. Night Shyamalan when we need him? Gus Van Sant's spiritual journey through a death forest is pretty to look at, nicely acted... and Trite with a capital T. Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts are prominent on the marquee, but co-star Ken Watanabe gets shunted aside. The Sea of Trees Blu-ray Lionsgate 2015 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date November 1, 2016 / 24.99 Starring Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts, James Saito. Cinematography Kasper Tuxen Film Editor Pietro Scalia Original Music Mason Bates Written by Chris Sparling Produced by F. Gary Gray, Kevin Halloran, Ken Kao, Gil Netter, Thomas Patrick Smith Directed by Gus Van Sant

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Reviewers pretty much stomped on Gus Van Sant's The Sea of Trees from last year. Although I didn't see a single notice with the title "Can't See the Forest for the Trees," that's not an inapt description. Writer Chris Sparling has...

Cannes — In the 25 years since his breakthrough film “Drugstore Cowboy” was released, Gus Van Sant has spent his time bouncing back and forth between the independent film world and more distinctly commercial endeavors. The style and tone of each work has clearly been dictated on the audience it's intended for and you can argue he’s only attempted to meet in the middle a few times, with the Oscar-nominated "Milk" or "Good Will Hunting." Van Sant’s latest work, "The Sea of Trees," sadly proves what a dicey proposition that can be. The film begins with a sullen Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey) arriving at an airport. He leaves his keys in his car. He has no bags. There is no return ticket for his flight. Arthur is going to Japan and he has no plans on coming back. What he intends to do becomes more clear when he arrives at the Aokigahara forest in Japan.

Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Cannes Bible Gus Van Sant is the rare formalist who has been known to depart into more conventional, at times mawkish work with varied outcomes, from the now-classic "Good Will Hunting" and equally compelling "Milk" to the middling "Restless." None of these forays, however, lead to such painfully misguided results as "The Sea of Trees," a hackneyed story of one man's journey toward spiritual uplift following the abrupt death of his wife (Naomi Watts). Not even Matthew McConaughey can sustain the mushy, amateurish story, which digs itself a deeper hole as it moves along. The established talents of both director and star only serve to magnify the many wrong moves that this stunning misfire takes. Fortunately, "Sea of Trees" at least maintains the appearance of a better movie, with polished visuals that seem fitting for the largely outdoors setting. Cinematographer Kasper Tuxen does a fine job complimenting.

Two-time Oscar nominated director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) has wrapped principal photography on The Sea of Trees, which filmed on location in Japan and Massachusetts, starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, Mud, The Wolf of Wall Street), Ken Watanabe (Inception, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai) and two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (The Impossible, 21 Grams, King Kong, Mulholland Dr.). The cast also includes actors Katie Aselton (star of FX's The League) and Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black).

Arthur Brennan (McConaughey) treks into Aokigahara, known as the The Sea of Trees, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji where people go to contemplate life and death. Having found the perfect place to die, Arthur encounters Takumi Nakamura (Watanabe), a Japanese man who has also lost his way. The two men begin a journey of reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur's will...

Two-time Oscar nominated director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) has wrapped principal photography on "The Sea of Trees", which filmed on location in Japan and Massachusetts, starring Oscar winner Mathew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, Mud, The Wolf of Wall Street), Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe (Inception, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai) and two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (The Impossible, 21 Grams, King Kong, Mulholland Drive).  The cast also includes actors Katie Aselton (star of FX's The League) and Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black).   Arthur Brennan (McConaughey) treks into Aokigahara, known as the The Sea of Trees, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji where people go to contemplate life and death.  Having found the perfect place to die, Arthur encounters Takumi Nakamura (Watanabe), a Japanese man who has also lost his way. The two men begin a journey of reflection and survival, which affirms...

“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or in a couple of titles below have been shooting since July). This August we’ve got a good number of projects that will start surfacing as early as next year’s Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Fests. With Dakota Johnson having been just announced, we’ve got Luca Guadagnino’s long awaited (remake) A Bigger Splash, getting ready for a poolside shoot. Gus Van Sant comes out of the woodworks to move into the woods for Sea of Trees. Sundance alumni Rick Alverson is wrapping up Entertainment, Reed Morano is set to make her directorial debut this mid-August with Meadowland, while Douchebag, Like Crazy, Breathe In‘s Drake Doremus is stationed in Japan for a weighty cast and futuristic tale in Equals. Here are some...

Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) has begun principal photography on Sea Of Trees. The film stars Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar), Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe (Inception, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai) and two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (The Impossible). Two-time Academy Award nominated producer Gil Netter (Life of Pi, The Blind Side), Ken Kao (Rampart, Knight of Cups, Silence) and Kevin Halloran (Million Dollar Arm, Parental Guidance, Water For Elephants) are producing, based on the Black List script by Chris Sparling (Buried). F. Gary Gray, Brian Dobbins and Allen Fischer are also producers. The film will shoot on location in Massachusetts and in Japan.

Arthur Brennan (McConaughey) treks into Aokigahara, known as the Sea of Trees, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan’s Mount Fuji where people go to contemplate life and death. Having found the perfect place to die,...

Bloom, Waypoint Entertainment and Netter Productions announced that two-time Oscar nominated director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) began principal photography on Sea of Trees. The film stars Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar, Mud, The Wolf of Wall Street), Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe (Inception, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai) and two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (The Impossible, 21 Grams, King Kong, Mulholland Dr.). Two-time Academy Award nominated producer Gil Netter (Life of Pi, The Blind Side), Ken Kao (Rampart, Knight f Cups, Silence) and Kevin Halloran (Million Dollar Arm, Parental Guidance, Water for Elephants) are producing, based on the Black List script by Chris Sparling (Buried). F. Gary Gray, Brian Dobbins and Allen Fischer are also producers. The film will shoot on location in Massachusetts and in Japan.

Ken Kao and nm4549220 autoAlex Walton[/link]'s international sales, production and financing company, Bloom, launched and introduced Sea of Trees in Cannes,...

Gus Van Sant’s next directorial Sea of Trees starring Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts is currently in production in rural Massachusetts and will be moving its production to Japan in September. Financier and producer Ken Kao and Alex Walton’s international sales, production and financing company, Bloom, launched and introduced Sea of Trees in Cannes, and by the end of the festival had sold out most of the world. Van Sant has assembled a top-notch creative team to work on the film including Oscar-winning editor Pietro Scalia, Emmy nominated production designer Alex Digerlando (HBO’s True Detective), cinematographer Kasper Tuxen (Beginners), Oscar-nominated costume […]...

Hateship Friendship

Director: Liza Johnson

Writer(s): Mark Poirier (Smart People, Goats)

Producer(s): Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Cassian Elwes, Jamin O’Brien, Dylan Sellers

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Guy Pearce, Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte

I might not have connected with Liza Johnson’s Cannes-selected Return (Linda Cardellini is nominated for an Indie Spirit Best Actress award) but I’m looking at her sophomore film as what we have come to expect from an Alexandre Payne-ish type film: placing an atypical cast of flawed characters in an extreme situation. If the foursome of Guy Pearce, Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld and Nick Nolte offer some emotional bravura, then Johnson might be the second to successfully adapt an Alice Munro story for the big screen following Sarah Polley before her with Away From Her. Worth noting: Beginners‘ Cinematographer Kasper Tuxen lenses.

Gist: Based on Alice Munro’s Hateship,...

I had M. Blash’s The Wait on my predictions list last year. A fitting title for the shot in Oregon, sophomore feature that wrapped production in 2010. Word is, it is clearly finished as footage was shown at the Afm last month. Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny, Luke Grimes and Devon Gearhart star, while on the tech side we find Cinematographer Kasper Tuxen (3 Backyards), Production Designer Ryan Smith (For Ellen), and Editors Jessica Brunetto (Capitalism: A Love Story), Lance Edmands (director of Bluebird) and Justin Kelly.

Gist: Two sisters decide to keep their deceased mother in their home after being informed that she will come back to life.

Production Co./Producers: Ryan Crisman, Neil Kopp (Meek’s Cutoff) and David Guy Levy

Prediction: Park City at Midnight

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

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Chicago – Starz’s “Boss” doesn’t so much reimagine life in politics in Chicago as Shakespearian drama as it does being in a mob family. Mayor Thomas Kane (Kelsey Grammar) is not too distinguishable from Tony Soprano in the way he manipulates those around him and in how betrayal could not only mean the end of your career but the end of your life (the First Lady of the Windy City describes politics as “money, muscle, and the neutralization of one’s enemies.”) And much like Tony’s panic attacks, it’s human frailty that could bring this don down. The strong first season was just released on Blu-ray and DVD in anticipation of the second season premiere in August.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

There are more than enough elements in the first eight episodes of “Boss” to outweigh the show’s flaws. In particular, the writing in the political back rooms and...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 24, 2012

Price: DVD $39.98, Blu-ray $39.97

Studio: Lionsgate

Kelsey Grammer is Chicago mayor Tom Kane in Boss.

Kelsey Grammer (Middle Men) is Tom Kane, the ruthless mayor of Chicago, in the 2011 Starz cable channel political drama television series Boss: Season One.

When we’re first introduced to Mayor Tom Kane, he rules his domain with an iron fist. Deception, scandal and betrayal go hand in hand with Kane’s form of politics. As long as he gets the job done, the people of Chicago look the other way. Despite being the most effective mayor in recent history, Kane is hiding a dark secret: a degenerative brain disorder that’s messing with his mind so that he is can’t trust his memory, his closest allies or even himself.

Created by Farhad Safinia (writer of 2006′s Apocalypto), Boss: Season One also stars Connie Nielsen (TV’s...

#89. The Wait Director/Writer: M.BlashProducers: Ryan Crisman, Neil Kopp (Meek's Cutoff) and David Guy Levy (Lying)Distributor: Rights Available The Gist: The film follows two sisters (Jena Malone and Chloë Sevigny) who decide to keep their deceased mother in the house after receiving a call that she will come back to life. Grimes will portray a philosophical and enigmatic man who becomes smitten with Malone's character...(more) Cast: Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny and Luke Grimes List Worthy Reasons...: Another delayed sophomore feature we're itching to see, this features the cinematography from Dp Kasper Tuxen and sees M.Blash once again work with thesps Jena Malone and Chloë Sevigny who appeared in his debut, 2006's Lying. Release Date/Status?: Cannes 2012?  ...

#73. The Wait - M. Blash Another title that I pegged as a prediction for last year's fest, but not only did this not show up in Park City but M. Blash's sophomore pic wasn't shown anywhere else including perhaps the more probable lieu of Cannes (where his debut film. Lying was shown back in 2006). Photographed by the excellent Kasper Tuxen (3 Backyards, Beginners), I hope to see this second effort will debut at the beginning of the year. The Wait stars Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny and Luke Grimes. Gist: The film follows two sisters (Jena Malone and Chloë Sevigny) who decide to keep their deceased mother in the house after receiving a call that she will come back to life. Grimes will portray a philosophical and enigmatic man who becomes smitten with Malone's character. Producers: Ryan Crisman, Neil Kopp (Meek's Cutoff) and David Guy Levy (Lying)(Ioncinema.com Preview Page...