We have added a set pictures from the event 26th Annual Thurgood Marshall College Fund Gala. Guests included LL Cool J, Joyce Payne, Ski Johnson, Johnny Taylor, Harry Williams, Robin Williams, Regina Belle, Orlando Dixon, William R. Harvey, George Lopez, Trey Songz, April Tucker, Kevin Liles, Dwaun Warmack, Michelle Howard, Josh Smith, Jaqueline Jones Smith and Cynthia Warwick. Photos are copyright by Aaron J. Thornton / PR Photos. LL Cool J attending the 26th Annual Thurgood Marshall College Fund Gala at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, USA. Photo is copyright by Aaron J. Thornton / PR Photos.
- 11/14/2014
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Filmmaker David Gordon Green has shot two films in Central Texas now (well, three, but only two are out yet), and he gets it. He really does. For both Prince Avalanche and now Joe, he took stories that could be set anywhere and ground them in local rural settings, with characters played by residents who weren't previously professional actors. The most affecting scene in Prince Avalanche was the one in the ruins with Joyce Payne.
In Joe, I felt like I could drive 30 miles and find the unnamed town in which the film was set, with all its characters intact. In such a setting, the lead actors fit in and feel like characters, not stars. Even Nicolas Cage.
Cage plays the title character, whose job is leading a team of laborers to clear a forest for development -- hacking at trees with axes that contain poisonous liquids. He's approached by...
In Joe, I felt like I could drive 30 miles and find the unnamed town in which the film was set, with all its characters intact. In such a setting, the lead actors fit in and feel like characters, not stars. Even Nicolas Cage.
Cage plays the title character, whose job is leading a team of laborers to clear a forest for development -- hacking at trees with axes that contain poisonous liquids. He's approached by...
- 4/14/2014
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
After he delivered two raunchy misfires in a row with Your Highness and The Sitter, it’s gratifying to see director David Gordon Green return to the same kind of quiet, low-key dramas that put him on the map. And with an extremely limited cast and one constant backdrop, Prince Avalanche is perhaps Green’s quietest, lowest-key film yet.
Its commitment to the abstract is sometimes maddening, and its glacially slow pace is likely frustrating enough to alienate some viewers. However, I found Prince Avalanche remarkable in its ability to transfix me with the simplest of resources: two soulful performers, nature as a nonintrusive setting, feather-light direction and a minimalistic script. As it wanders along, the film possesses a strange, poetic charm that defies explanation.
As the film opens, we learn about a forest fire in the late 1980s that tore through the Texas wilderness, reducing trees and homes to ashes.
Its commitment to the abstract is sometimes maddening, and its glacially slow pace is likely frustrating enough to alienate some viewers. However, I found Prince Avalanche remarkable in its ability to transfix me with the simplest of resources: two soulful performers, nature as a nonintrusive setting, feather-light direction and a minimalistic script. As it wanders along, the film possesses a strange, poetic charm that defies explanation.
As the film opens, we learn about a forest fire in the late 1980s that tore through the Texas wilderness, reducing trees and homes to ashes.
- 11/11/2013
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Director: David Gordon Green; Screenwriter: David Gordon Green; Starring: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne; Running time: 94 mins; Certificate: 15
Prince Avalanche is the eighth feature film from director David Gordon Green, and though it's far from his best work, it's further evidence that he's one of the more interesting filmmakers to emerge from the American indie scene. Green's back catalogue is split between thoughtful dramas (see George Washington, All the Real Girls) and the kind of knockabout stoner comedies that shuffle through Team Apatow regulars Rogen, Franco, McBride et al.
These diverse stylistic paths overlap in his latest film Prince Avalanche, a remake of the small-scale Icelandic film Either Way. A comedy punctuated by moments of weight and resonance evident in Green's more dramatic work, the film casts Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as a pair of road workers painting marks across the highway in the aftermath of...
Prince Avalanche is the eighth feature film from director David Gordon Green, and though it's far from his best work, it's further evidence that he's one of the more interesting filmmakers to emerge from the American indie scene. Green's back catalogue is split between thoughtful dramas (see George Washington, All the Real Girls) and the kind of knockabout stoner comedies that shuffle through Team Apatow regulars Rogen, Franco, McBride et al.
These diverse stylistic paths overlap in his latest film Prince Avalanche, a remake of the small-scale Icelandic film Either Way. A comedy punctuated by moments of weight and resonance evident in Green's more dramatic work, the film casts Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as a pair of road workers painting marks across the highway in the aftermath of...
- 10/15/2013
- Digital Spy
Chicago – Take actors Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, make them highway line painters, put them in a fire-ravaged woodland and the makings for a savory two character portrait is realized in “Prince Avalanche.” David Gordon Green adapted and directed this appealingly offbeat art film.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The weird story is given oxygen through Rudd and Hirsch, who have a vital yet frustrating chemistry through the film’s journey. They both seek redemption, but they refuse to go in the proper direction towards that absolution. They are absolutely oil and water, and must live together through a monotonous existence of painting highway lines and driving each other crazy. The film also has symbolic shades of the stage play “Waiting for Godot” and the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and uses devices such as two old people in mysterious and enigmatic ways.
Alvin (Paul Rudd) has stuck his neck out for his...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The weird story is given oxygen through Rudd and Hirsch, who have a vital yet frustrating chemistry through the film’s journey. They both seek redemption, but they refuse to go in the proper direction towards that absolution. They are absolutely oil and water, and must live together through a monotonous existence of painting highway lines and driving each other crazy. The film also has symbolic shades of the stage play “Waiting for Godot” and the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and uses devices such as two old people in mysterious and enigmatic ways.
Alvin (Paul Rudd) has stuck his neck out for his...
- 8/16/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Director David Gordon Green has created a variety of popular and revered movies – from his breakthrough “George Washington” (2000) to his latest, the uniquely titled “Prince Avalanche.”
Green’s new film features Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two co-workers in a remote environment, trying hard not to get along.
Green is influenced by his Southern roots, having been born in Alabama and raised in Texas. After studying film at the North Carolina School of the Arts, he made his debut with the acclaimed independent feature, writing and directing “George Washington.” From there he has adapted and directed serious dramas – “All the Real Girls” (2003) and “Snow Angels” (2007) – and comedies like “Pineapple Express” (2008), “Your Highness” (2011) and “The Sitter” (2011). Green also is a producer and director on the cult HBO comedy series, “Eastbound & Down.”
Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd are Highwaymen in David Gordon Green’s ‘Prince Avalanche’
Photo credit: Magnolia Pictures...
Green’s new film features Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two co-workers in a remote environment, trying hard not to get along.
Green is influenced by his Southern roots, having been born in Alabama and raised in Texas. After studying film at the North Carolina School of the Arts, he made his debut with the acclaimed independent feature, writing and directing “George Washington.” From there he has adapted and directed serious dramas – “All the Real Girls” (2003) and “Snow Angels” (2007) – and comedies like “Pineapple Express” (2008), “Your Highness” (2011) and “The Sitter” (2011). Green also is a producer and director on the cult HBO comedy series, “Eastbound & Down.”
Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd are Highwaymen in David Gordon Green’s ‘Prince Avalanche’
Photo credit: Magnolia Pictures...
- 8/13/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Rated R for some sexual content Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne, and Lynn Shelton Written and Directed By: David Gordon Green It’s hard to tell if Prince Avalanche is sort of tedious or sort of fascinating. As far as character studies go, there’s a lot to take in and analyze here. Performance wise, […]
Read Review: Prince Avalanche on Filmonic.
Read Review: Prince Avalanche on Filmonic.
- 8/11/2013
- by Andrew Shuster
- Filmonic.com
Director David Gordon Green makes his way back to the indie world that gave him his start, years before "Pineapple Express" and "Your Highness" turned his head with "Prince Avalanche." The comically dry dramedy smoothly fits into the career that produced "All the Real Girls," "Undertow" and "Snow Angels."
It's a "Waiting for Godot" set in the solitary work and lives of two highway line-painters. Alvin (Paul Rudd) is troubled, in the wilderness of a recently burned-out forest in a remote corner of Texas to "reap the rewards of solitude." Lance (Emile Hirsch) is Alvin's girlfriend's chatty, nervous brother, an aimless skirt-chaser in need of a job and some focus in life.
And when the film begins, more than six minutes pass before they exchange a word. They paint fresh lines on a scorched road and glue down reflectors in between the lines. Alvin insists they listen to Portuguese language...
It's a "Waiting for Godot" set in the solitary work and lives of two highway line-painters. Alvin (Paul Rudd) is troubled, in the wilderness of a recently burned-out forest in a remote corner of Texas to "reap the rewards of solitude." Lance (Emile Hirsch) is Alvin's girlfriend's chatty, nervous brother, an aimless skirt-chaser in need of a job and some focus in life.
And when the film begins, more than six minutes pass before they exchange a word. They paint fresh lines on a scorched road and glue down reflectors in between the lines. Alvin insists they listen to Portuguese language...
- 8/8/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Prince Avalanche
Directed by David Gordon Green
United States, 2013
Tonally, somewhat close to his effort 2003 All the Real Girls, David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche shows a more serious face than his recent run of comedies.
Alvin (Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch) are two highway workers spending their summer painting yellow lines and hammering in road signs. While the younger Lance spends his free time trying to get laid in town, Alvin espouses his best Thoreau axioms and writes letters to his girlfriend Madison, Lance’s sister.
It’s not only that the buddy script for Prince Avalanche is more earnest than all of Green’s work post-Snow Angels, it’s also that the director visually slows things down. Shots linger in Prince Avalanche for a greater duration than in anything from The Sitter or Pineapple Express. Green returns to a style that’s more expressive, using the...
Directed by David Gordon Green
United States, 2013
Tonally, somewhat close to his effort 2003 All the Real Girls, David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche shows a more serious face than his recent run of comedies.
Alvin (Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch) are two highway workers spending their summer painting yellow lines and hammering in road signs. While the younger Lance spends his free time trying to get laid in town, Alvin espouses his best Thoreau axioms and writes letters to his girlfriend Madison, Lance’s sister.
It’s not only that the buddy script for Prince Avalanche is more earnest than all of Green’s work post-Snow Angels, it’s also that the director visually slows things down. Shots linger in Prince Avalanche for a greater duration than in anything from The Sitter or Pineapple Express. Green returns to a style that’s more expressive, using the...
- 6/27/2013
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
Magnolia Pictures has released a new trailer for one of David Gordon Green‘s upcoming indie features, Prince Avalanche, starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as a pair of traffic line-painting city workers who apparently spend a summer in the country repainting lines and getting in touch with their inner-selves. Hit the jump and watch the new trailer. An American remake of the Icelandic film Either Way, also stars Gina Grande, Joyce Payne, Lance LeGault, and Lynn Shelton. Here’s the synopsis for the film An odd couple of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin and his girlfriend’s brother, Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to...
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- 4/26/2013
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Trailer for Fox Searchlight Pictures' Prince Avalanche, starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch The first trailer's in for the David Gordon Green comedy which can be seen via the player below, courtesy of Apple. An odd couple of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin and his girlfriend’s brother, Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire. As they sink into their job in the remarkable landscape, they learn more than they want to about each other and their own limitations. An unlikely friendship develops through humor and nasty exchanges, leading to surprising affection. Adapted from Icelandic film Either Way, Prince Avalanche is driven by wonderful performances by Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, and Lance LeGault. Writer/director David Gordon Green gets back to his independent roots with this character study, which...
- 4/26/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Magnolia Pictures' Prince Avalanche adds first poster for the upcoming comedy which sees release on iTunes and On Demand, as well as in theaters from August 9th. Also, be sure to watch a short 6 second video sneak peek of the upcoming trailer. Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch star in the David Gordon Green film. The film is adapted from Icelandic film Either Way. Also in the cast are Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne, Gina Grande and Lynn Shelton. An odd couple of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin and his girlfriend’s brother, Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire. As they sink into their job in the remarkable landscape, they learn more than they want to about each other and their own limitations. An unlikely friendship develops through humor and nasty exchanges,...
- 4/25/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Prince Avalanche
Directed by David Gordon Green
Written by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson (original story), David Gordon Green (adapted screenplay)
Us, 2013
The inception of this film does not so much start with a story but a location. Filmed in the ash ridden Bastrop, TX after the late 2011 fires that devastated thousands of homes, Prince Avalanche observes two men as they repaint a lonely, rural road. As a remake of the Icelandic film Á annan veg (2011), the film follows the strict and humorless Alvin (Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch) who is brash and self centered. The dichotomy between the two is both a source of conflict as well as, ironically, a way to common ground.
Much like the rest of the film, the opening is quiet as the two rise to work in the silent Texas dawn, working slowly but deliberately. As they continue to toil away throughout the summer of...
Directed by David Gordon Green
Written by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson (original story), David Gordon Green (adapted screenplay)
Us, 2013
The inception of this film does not so much start with a story but a location. Filmed in the ash ridden Bastrop, TX after the late 2011 fires that devastated thousands of homes, Prince Avalanche observes two men as they repaint a lonely, rural road. As a remake of the Icelandic film Á annan veg (2011), the film follows the strict and humorless Alvin (Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch) who is brash and self centered. The dichotomy between the two is both a source of conflict as well as, ironically, a way to common ground.
Much like the rest of the film, the opening is quiet as the two rise to work in the silent Texas dawn, working slowly but deliberately. As they continue to toil away throughout the summer of...
- 3/11/2013
- by David Tran
- SoundOnSight
All hail mighty Sundance, the King of the Film Festivals (really, tell us one that's bigger, at least in America), that annual gathering where movie stars, journalists, Park City locals and even Paris Hilton join together to check out what Robert Redford considers the year's best independent films.
Sundance 2013 has been called one of the best fests in years as it features terrific new works by such renowned directors as Richard Linklater ("Before Midnight"), Shane Carruth ("Upstream Color"), David Gordon Green ("Prince Avalanche") and Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("Don Jon's Addiction") as well as some stunning premieres by first-time filmmakers ... and a lot of pretty amazing films that fall somewhere in-between.
Our sister site, Film.com, has a crack team of critics on site trying to catch as many of the 200+ films screening at this year's festival as possible. Here are the Sundance scoops so far ...
"Sound City": B-
Nirvana drummer...
Sundance 2013 has been called one of the best fests in years as it features terrific new works by such renowned directors as Richard Linklater ("Before Midnight"), Shane Carruth ("Upstream Color"), David Gordon Green ("Prince Avalanche") and Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("Don Jon's Addiction") as well as some stunning premieres by first-time filmmakers ... and a lot of pretty amazing films that fall somewhere in-between.
Our sister site, Film.com, has a crack team of critics on site trying to catch as many of the 200+ films screening at this year's festival as possible. Here are the Sundance scoops so far ...
"Sound City": B-
Nirvana drummer...
- 1/30/2013
- by NextMovie Staff
- NextMovie
Director/Screenwriter: David Gordon Green
Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne
Soundtrack: Explosions in the Sky, David Wingo
Synopsis: An odd couple of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin and his girlfriend’s brother, Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire. As they sink into their job in the remarkable landscape, they learn more than they want to about each other and their own limitations. An unlikely friendship develops through humor and nasty exchanges, leading to surprising affection.
Story and Direction
After helming a couple of big-budget studio comedies, David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Your Highness) returns to Sundance with a smaller and sweeter comedy gem. This was an unconventional film all around for the writer/director who started with the title - which bares no meaning, he...
Cast: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne
Soundtrack: Explosions in the Sky, David Wingo
Synopsis: An odd couple of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin and his girlfriend’s brother, Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire. As they sink into their job in the remarkable landscape, they learn more than they want to about each other and their own limitations. An unlikely friendship develops through humor and nasty exchanges, leading to surprising affection.
Story and Direction
After helming a couple of big-budget studio comedies, David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Your Highness) returns to Sundance with a smaller and sweeter comedy gem. This was an unconventional film all around for the writer/director who started with the title - which bares no meaning, he...
- 1/24/2013
- by Eli Reyes
- GeekTyrant
If you're excited at the very idea of David Gordon Green making an indie movie again, you'll definitely like "Prince Avalanche" [premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival].
For those who don't know, Green burst onto the indie scene back in 2000 with the critically acclaimed, but microscopically released, "George Washington" and followed-up with a series of well-regarded low-budget films. "All the Real Girls" (starring a pre-"New Girl" Zooey Deschanel) and "Snow Angels" (with Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale), both debuted at Sundance. "Undertow" (with Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas and Dermot Mulroney) premiered at the Toronto and New York film festivals.
Then Green broke into the mainstream with the Judd Apatow-produced "Pineapple Express." Lesser studio efforts "Your Highness" and "The Sitter" followed. After his guerrilla-style experience shooting last year's Clint Eastwood/"Halftime in America" Super Bowl commercial, Green decided to get some friends together and make a movie cheap, quick and quiet.
The result is the scruffy,...
For those who don't know, Green burst onto the indie scene back in 2000 with the critically acclaimed, but microscopically released, "George Washington" and followed-up with a series of well-regarded low-budget films. "All the Real Girls" (starring a pre-"New Girl" Zooey Deschanel) and "Snow Angels" (with Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale), both debuted at Sundance. "Undertow" (with Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas and Dermot Mulroney) premiered at the Toronto and New York film festivals.
Then Green broke into the mainstream with the Judd Apatow-produced "Pineapple Express." Lesser studio efforts "Your Highness" and "The Sitter" followed. After his guerrilla-style experience shooting last year's Clint Eastwood/"Halftime in America" Super Bowl commercial, Green decided to get some friends together and make a movie cheap, quick and quiet.
The result is the scruffy,...
- 1/22/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Take a first (official) look at the upcoming comedy-drama Prince Avalanche, which comes from director David Gordon Green, and stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. They look like real road workers, that’s for sure! In case you’re not so familiar with this project, I will first inform you that the movie is actually a remake of the Icelandic film Either Way, and that it will premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival next month.
Written and directed by David Gordon Green, Prince Avalanche centers on two highway road workers Alvin, played by Rudd, and Lance, played by Hirsch, who spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives.
An odd couple of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin and his girlfriend’s brother, Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire.
Written and directed by David Gordon Green, Prince Avalanche centers on two highway road workers Alvin, played by Rudd, and Lance, played by Hirsch, who spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives.
An odd couple of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin and his girlfriend’s brother, Lance, dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire.
- 12/18/2012
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
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