"You got an army of people who love you at your back." Gravitas has debuted an official trailer for an indie film titled After Class, which initially premiered under the title Safe Spaces at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. It's getting the usual VOD release in December, if anyone is curious anyway. Justin Long plays an NYU professor who gets in trouble after trying to create "safe spaces" for his students. So he skips town and spends a week re-connecting with his family and an ill grandmother while attempting to defend his reputation. The cast includes Fran Drescher, Richard Schiff, Camrus Johnson, Kate Berlant, Becky Ann Baker, Tyler Wladis, Lynn Cohen, Samrat Chakrabarti, Dana Eskelson, and Michael Godere. Well this seems rather charming and uplifting in a warm way, it might actually be worth a watch. Here's the first official trailer (+ promo poster) for Daniel Schechter's After Class,...
- 10/31/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Mona (Eleanore Pienta) is pregnant, works as a checkout clerk at a grocery store, and lives in a rathole apartment. Mona visits her mother May (Dana Eskelson) on occasion, but it's a very tumultuous relationship—one minute it's great, the next it's shit. Mona tries to reconcile with her sister, Jordan (Molly Plunk), but that proves problematic as well. Jordan's girlfriend, Sylve (Keisha Zollar) is a bit more understanding with Mona's plight, but overall, Mona is alone. With a baby on the way and her life in shambles, Mona frantically searches for something even remotely resembling happiness. If you're looking for dysfunctional families in film, look no further than See You Next Tuesday. It's a film that forces audiences to see what family life is for many. It's not the American dream being pushed on TV, because there never was an American dream. It's the reality of families broken apart for whatever reason,...
- 2/3/2014
- by Dirk Sonniksen
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Hard at work on their new project, Jonah Hill and Felicity Jones showed up to shoot scenes for “True Story” at an outdoor locale in New York City today (March 20).
The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor looked handsome in a black v-neck sweater and black frame glasses as he carried a black duffel while his heavily pregnant costar wrangled her own brown handbag and showed off her baby bump beneath a grey maternity dress.
Along with Jonah and Felicity, “True Story” also features stars like James Franco, Maria Dizzia, and Dana Eskelson.
Per the synopsis, “The forthcoming drama is centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.”
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The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor looked handsome in a black v-neck sweater and black frame glasses as he carried a black duffel while his heavily pregnant costar wrangled her own brown handbag and showed off her baby bump beneath a grey maternity dress.
Along with Jonah and Felicity, “True Story” also features stars like James Franco, Maria Dizzia, and Dana Eskelson.
Per the synopsis, “The forthcoming drama is centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.”
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- 3/21/2013
- GossipCenter
Cold Creek Manor
Opens
Friday, Sept. 19
Taking no chance that an audience member might actually get through "Cold Creek Manor" with a normal pulse, director Mike Figgis and writer Richard Jefferies throw in nearly every time-honored scary-movie device imaginable, including a half-dozen snakes. One's tolerance for such hackneyed tricks lies in inverse proportion to the number of times one has already enjoyed or endured such thrills. Meaning, this movie is aimed at young audiences. "Cold Creek Manor" could scare up decent numbers in its domestic theatrical release but may find even bigger audiences overseas and in the video/DVD market.
Figgis has wandered far from mainstream moviemaking in recent years, first with idiosyncratic explorations of perverse human relationships in "Leaving Las Vegas", "The Loss of Sexual Innocence" and "Miss Julie", then such digital experiments as "Timecode" and "Hotel". Apparently, he decided to return to Hollywood genre moviemaking with a vengeance in "Cold Creek Manor". The only reminders of his walkabout in the independent outback is the heavy use of lightweight digital cameras to seek interesting nooks and crannies in the film's troubled mansion from which to observe his characters coming unglued and the not-quite-realized attempt to examine tensions in a marriage under the strain of scary doings.
Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone play Cooper and Leah Tilson, Manhattanites grown distressed with urban life. They flee to a large fixer-upper in the boonies of upper New York state, the kind of crumbling manse that reeks of bad feng shui. Even they appear apprehensive about the forbidding building. But as with nearly all scary movies, logic gets thrown to the wind.
As they unpack, a creepy guy is discovered standing in the living room. Looking like the ex-con he turns out to be, Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) introduces himself as the manor's former owner, who lost the house in a bank foreclosure. The unmistakable embodiment of envy, contempt and feral instincts, Dale is nevertheless invited to lunch -- which he gobbles down like a ravenous wolf -- and even gets hired to help with the manor's restoration.
Dale is one of those evil creatures of fiction who, no matter what outrages they perpetrate, are held aloof by their authors from the laws of nature and the world so they may survive into the third act to receive their comeuppance. In one scene in a tavern, the ex-con threatens Cooper, drunkenly assaults several male patrons, slugs his girlfriend, Ruby (Juliette Lewis), and is only restrained when Sheriff Ferguson (Dana Eskelson), who just happens to be Ruby's sister, pulls her gun. Does she arrest Dale? She does not.
Cooper is a low-budget documentary filmmaker, which Figgis and Jefferies take to mean a forensic detective. Using high-tech equipment, Cooper sifts through mounds of debris conveniently discovered within the manor, slowly piecing together the house's pedigree and the dirty secrets of the Massie family, including its bedridden patriarch (Christopher Plummer).
Meanwhile, as Figgis' own music rumbles ominously in the background, the poor manor is beset by miseries: a horde of snakes, a butchered horse, the discovery of icky photographs of young, nearly naked girls and finally a stormy night when all hell breaks lose. All of which causes the Tilson family to resent not the man clearly behind all this misfortune (save the storm) but their own dad!
The plot keeps Quaid busy, though the role is far too reactive. However, the story sidelines Stone to such a degree that her burst of temper against her husband comes out of nowhere. Once again, Lewis plays trailer-park trash, a role she has perfected to the point that she really can move on. Meanwhile, Dorff struts and preens with ripe villainy.
But then, there is nothing here that is too obvious that Figgis and company cannot make more obvious. Nor is any device too low for the filmmaker to eagerly stoop. It's discouraging to witness a filmmaker who clearly yearns for the indie world yield to the temptations of mindless movie manufacturing. At least Figgis made it as soulless as possible.
COLD CREEK MANOR
Buena Vista Pictures
Touchstone Pictures presents a Red Mullet production
Credits:
Director: Mike Figgis
Screenwriter: Richard Jefferies
Producers: Annie Stewart, Mike Figgis
Executive producers: Lata Ryan, Richard Jefferies
Director of photography: Declan Quinn
Production designer: Leslie Dilley
Music: Mike Figgis
Costume designer: Marie-Sylvie Deveau
Editor: Dylan Tichenor
Cast:
Cooper Tilson: Dennis Quaid
Leah Tilson: Sharon Stone
Dale Massie: Stephen Dorff
Ruby: Juliette Lewis
Kristen Tilson: Kristen Stewart
Jesse Tilson: Ryan Wilson
Sheriff Ferguson: Dana Eskelson
Mr. Massie: Christopher Plummer
Running time -- 119 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, Sept. 19
Taking no chance that an audience member might actually get through "Cold Creek Manor" with a normal pulse, director Mike Figgis and writer Richard Jefferies throw in nearly every time-honored scary-movie device imaginable, including a half-dozen snakes. One's tolerance for such hackneyed tricks lies in inverse proportion to the number of times one has already enjoyed or endured such thrills. Meaning, this movie is aimed at young audiences. "Cold Creek Manor" could scare up decent numbers in its domestic theatrical release but may find even bigger audiences overseas and in the video/DVD market.
Figgis has wandered far from mainstream moviemaking in recent years, first with idiosyncratic explorations of perverse human relationships in "Leaving Las Vegas", "The Loss of Sexual Innocence" and "Miss Julie", then such digital experiments as "Timecode" and "Hotel". Apparently, he decided to return to Hollywood genre moviemaking with a vengeance in "Cold Creek Manor". The only reminders of his walkabout in the independent outback is the heavy use of lightweight digital cameras to seek interesting nooks and crannies in the film's troubled mansion from which to observe his characters coming unglued and the not-quite-realized attempt to examine tensions in a marriage under the strain of scary doings.
Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone play Cooper and Leah Tilson, Manhattanites grown distressed with urban life. They flee to a large fixer-upper in the boonies of upper New York state, the kind of crumbling manse that reeks of bad feng shui. Even they appear apprehensive about the forbidding building. But as with nearly all scary movies, logic gets thrown to the wind.
As they unpack, a creepy guy is discovered standing in the living room. Looking like the ex-con he turns out to be, Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff) introduces himself as the manor's former owner, who lost the house in a bank foreclosure. The unmistakable embodiment of envy, contempt and feral instincts, Dale is nevertheless invited to lunch -- which he gobbles down like a ravenous wolf -- and even gets hired to help with the manor's restoration.
Dale is one of those evil creatures of fiction who, no matter what outrages they perpetrate, are held aloof by their authors from the laws of nature and the world so they may survive into the third act to receive their comeuppance. In one scene in a tavern, the ex-con threatens Cooper, drunkenly assaults several male patrons, slugs his girlfriend, Ruby (Juliette Lewis), and is only restrained when Sheriff Ferguson (Dana Eskelson), who just happens to be Ruby's sister, pulls her gun. Does she arrest Dale? She does not.
Cooper is a low-budget documentary filmmaker, which Figgis and Jefferies take to mean a forensic detective. Using high-tech equipment, Cooper sifts through mounds of debris conveniently discovered within the manor, slowly piecing together the house's pedigree and the dirty secrets of the Massie family, including its bedridden patriarch (Christopher Plummer).
Meanwhile, as Figgis' own music rumbles ominously in the background, the poor manor is beset by miseries: a horde of snakes, a butchered horse, the discovery of icky photographs of young, nearly naked girls and finally a stormy night when all hell breaks lose. All of which causes the Tilson family to resent not the man clearly behind all this misfortune (save the storm) but their own dad!
The plot keeps Quaid busy, though the role is far too reactive. However, the story sidelines Stone to such a degree that her burst of temper against her husband comes out of nowhere. Once again, Lewis plays trailer-park trash, a role she has perfected to the point that she really can move on. Meanwhile, Dorff struts and preens with ripe villainy.
But then, there is nothing here that is too obvious that Figgis and company cannot make more obvious. Nor is any device too low for the filmmaker to eagerly stoop. It's discouraging to witness a filmmaker who clearly yearns for the indie world yield to the temptations of mindless movie manufacturing. At least Figgis made it as soulless as possible.
COLD CREEK MANOR
Buena Vista Pictures
Touchstone Pictures presents a Red Mullet production
Credits:
Director: Mike Figgis
Screenwriter: Richard Jefferies
Producers: Annie Stewart, Mike Figgis
Executive producers: Lata Ryan, Richard Jefferies
Director of photography: Declan Quinn
Production designer: Leslie Dilley
Music: Mike Figgis
Costume designer: Marie-Sylvie Deveau
Editor: Dylan Tichenor
Cast:
Cooper Tilson: Dennis Quaid
Leah Tilson: Sharon Stone
Dale Massie: Stephen Dorff
Ruby: Juliette Lewis
Kristen Tilson: Kristen Stewart
Jesse Tilson: Ryan Wilson
Sheriff Ferguson: Dana Eskelson
Mr. Massie: Christopher Plummer
Running time -- 119 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/10/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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