Thanks to Jack Stark for tipping us to the trailer for Sugar, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last year (Frozen River won) and nommed for Best Screenplay at the Indie Spirit Awards (beat out by Vicky Cristina Barcelona). Written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the husband and wife team behind Half Nelson, Sugar gets its official theatrical...
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Brad Brevett at Rope of Silicon has this teaser poster scanned from the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. Looks like Scorsese (or at least the Paramount market department) is playing up the Gothic horror aspects of the story rather than the noir detective mystery, and that’s fine by me. The ghoulish font is a bit Fright Night but, really, what movie wouldn’t be...
Philadelphia muralist Isaiah Zager is the subject of his son Jeremiah’s documentary, In A Dream, whose trailer comes to us via Cinematical. Winner of the audience award at SXSW Film Festival a couple of weeks ago, the film will be screening across the country on a schedule you can find at the In A Dream blog. Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer: Like the dazzling,...
The Prince and the Frog has hopped forward a couple of weeks to a December 11 release date, providing some breathing room before Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel opens on Christmas Day. Disney’s 49th feature animation will premiere in limited release on November 25 in New York and L.A. We ran the teaser trailer last July, but the one on the next page is...
Wall Street Journal: This astonishing debut feature announces the arrival of a lavishly gifted filmmaker, Cary Joji Fukanaga. (He’s California-born, of a Swedish-American mother and a Japanese-American father.) The subject is immigration, the language is Spanish — with good English subtitles — the scope is epic and the achievement, though solidly grounded...
