Exclusive: Kino Lorber today announced that it has acquired worldwide rights to Rob Nilsson’s latest film Faultline, as well as his near complete filmography, including his 1979 feature Northern Lights, co-directed with John Hanson.
The Nilsson catalog will be available on Kino Now in 2023. Select titles will also be released theatrically. The deal for Faultline and the Rob Nilsson catalog was negotiated by Kino Lorber President & CEO Richard Lorber.
Faultline debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 11 and will receive a theatrical and digital release from Kino Lorber in 2023. Billed as a hypnotic experience about the raw, messy intimacy of family and the global impact of today’s conflicted society, Faultline is the third and final installment of Nilsson’s Nomad Trilogy, following Arid Cut and Divide. Faultline is written and directed by Nilsson. He also produced the pic with Zhan Petrov, Michelle Allen, Rusty Murphy, and John Stout.
The Nilsson catalog will be available on Kino Now in 2023. Select titles will also be released theatrically. The deal for Faultline and the Rob Nilsson catalog was negotiated by Kino Lorber President & CEO Richard Lorber.
Faultline debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 11 and will receive a theatrical and digital release from Kino Lorber in 2023. Billed as a hypnotic experience about the raw, messy intimacy of family and the global impact of today’s conflicted society, Faultline is the third and final installment of Nilsson’s Nomad Trilogy, following Arid Cut and Divide. Faultline is written and directed by Nilsson. He also produced the pic with Zhan Petrov, Michelle Allen, Rusty Murphy, and John Stout.
- 10/13/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Writer/director Catherine Hardwicke talks about her favorite intense movies with Josh.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Citizen Kane (1941)
Thirteen (2003)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Heat and Sunlight (1987)
Angelo My Love (1983)
Kids (1995)
Out Of The Blue (1980)
The Wanderers (1979)
Mean Streets (1973)
A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
Husbands (1970)
City of God (2002)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
The Next Karate Kid (1994)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Hair (1979)
The Hangover (2009)
Porky’s (1981)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
Twilight (2008)
The Nativity Story (2006)
Pariah (2011)
Mudbound (2017)
Sex And The City: The Movie (2008)
The Florida Project (2017)
Tangerine (2015)
The Ocean of Helena Lee (2015)
Other Notable Items
Rob Nilsson
Sundance Film Festival
Robert Duvall
Larry Clark
Peanuts comic strip (1950-2000)
Charles M. Schulz
Chloe Sevigny
Rosario Dawson
Heath Ledger
Linda Manz
Dennis Hopper
Philip Kaufman
Ken Wahl
The Wanderers novel by Richard Price (1974)
Robert De Niro
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands
Fernando Meirelles
Kátia Lund
Kimberly Pierce
Hillary Swank
Scarlett Johansson
Treat Williams
John Savage
The Eli...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Citizen Kane (1941)
Thirteen (2003)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Heat and Sunlight (1987)
Angelo My Love (1983)
Kids (1995)
Out Of The Blue (1980)
The Wanderers (1979)
Mean Streets (1973)
A Woman Under The Influence (1974)
Husbands (1970)
City of God (2002)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
The Next Karate Kid (1994)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Hair (1979)
The Hangover (2009)
Porky’s (1981)
Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
Twilight (2008)
The Nativity Story (2006)
Pariah (2011)
Mudbound (2017)
Sex And The City: The Movie (2008)
The Florida Project (2017)
Tangerine (2015)
The Ocean of Helena Lee (2015)
Other Notable Items
Rob Nilsson
Sundance Film Festival
Robert Duvall
Larry Clark
Peanuts comic strip (1950-2000)
Charles M. Schulz
Chloe Sevigny
Rosario Dawson
Heath Ledger
Linda Manz
Dennis Hopper
Philip Kaufman
Ken Wahl
The Wanderers novel by Richard Price (1974)
Robert De Niro
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands
Fernando Meirelles
Kátia Lund
Kimberly Pierce
Hillary Swank
Scarlett Johansson
Treat Williams
John Savage
The Eli...
- 12/8/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Showcasing the Best in Independent and World Cinema
Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.
Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...
Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.
Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...
- 9/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Any list of the greatest foreign directors currently working today has to include Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The directors first rose to prominence in the mid 1990s with efforts like “The Promise” and “Rosetta,” and they’ve continued to excel in the 21st century with titles such as “The Kid With A Bike” and “Two Days One Night,” which earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
- 8/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Indiewire can exclusively announce the first round of films from the Mill Valley Film Festival’s upcoming 39th edition, with a number of high-profile selections from Cannes (“I, Daniel Blake”), Sundance (“Manchester by the Sea”) and Berlin (“Things to Come”) leading the way. Mvff, which runs from October – 16 this year, will also host the premieres of several Bay Area filmmakers’ new works. See the full list below.
Read More: ‘Room’ Declared Audience Award Favorite at 38th Mill Valley Film Festival
“I, Daniel Blake” (Ken Loach)
“Loving” (Jeff Nichols)
“Paterson” and “Gimme Danger” (Jim Jarmusch)
“Neruda” (Pablo Larrain)
“Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade)
“The Salesman” (Asghar Farhadi)
“The Handmaiden” (Park Chan-wook)
“Elle” (Paul Verhoeven)
“Like Crazy” (Paolo Virzi)
“Manchester by the Sea” (Kenneth Lonergan)
“Christine” (Antonio Campos)
“Maya Angelou and Still I Rise” (Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack)
“Things to Come” (Mia Hansen Løve)
“Fire at Sea”(Giancarlo Rosi)
“Death in Sarajevo...
Read More: ‘Room’ Declared Audience Award Favorite at 38th Mill Valley Film Festival
“I, Daniel Blake” (Ken Loach)
“Loving” (Jeff Nichols)
“Paterson” and “Gimme Danger” (Jim Jarmusch)
“Neruda” (Pablo Larrain)
“Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade)
“The Salesman” (Asghar Farhadi)
“The Handmaiden” (Park Chan-wook)
“Elle” (Paul Verhoeven)
“Like Crazy” (Paolo Virzi)
“Manchester by the Sea” (Kenneth Lonergan)
“Christine” (Antonio Campos)
“Maya Angelou and Still I Rise” (Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack)
“Things to Come” (Mia Hansen Løve)
“Fire at Sea”(Giancarlo Rosi)
“Death in Sarajevo...
- 8/17/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Read More: 20th Stony Brook Film Festival Welcomes 'Best of Enemies,' 'Wildlike' and More Brooklyn's BAMcinématek revealed plans for a six-week-long retrospective screening series that is scheduled to begin in mid-July. Focused exclusively on independent American cinema from the 1980s, the program will feature over sixty films, along with special guests such as directors Ross McElwee and Rob Nilsson. Robert Townsend's "Hollywood Shuffle" (1987), a comedy about an African American actor (Townsend) struggling with the limitations of racial representation in Hollywood, will open "Indie 80s" on July 17. The series will conclude on August 27 with a screening of "Chameleon Street" (1989), which follows actor-director Wendall B. Harris, Jr. as he camouflages himself at hospitals, newspapers and court, faking as an expert in a wide range of professions in order to escape his tedious life. Other notable titles include Rob Reiner's classic...
- 6/12/2015
- by Sara Itkis
- Indiewire
Fandor has announced a day-and-date release for Rob Nilsson's political thriller “A Bridge to a Border” that will be tied to the picture's world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival on Oct. 10. Story follows U.S. Border Patrol officer Pakal Gomez, who has made a career out of calculated risks, but following his escape from prison (after having been jailed for a crime he didn't commit), he's ready to risk it all. Radicalized in jail by an insurgent group dedicated to “being heard,” Gomez and “The Bridge Group” plan a terrorist action intended to give them an international media.
- 10/8/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
The Mill Valley Film Festival, opening today and running through October 12, will naturally feature several of this year's awards season contenders: Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game and so on. But the spotlight will be on local talent as well: Rob Nilsson's A Bridge to a Border, Erica Jordan's In Plain Sight, Christopher Beaver's Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste, William Farley's Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish and Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman's States of Grace. We're collecting previews. » - David Hudson...
- 10/2/2014
- Keyframe
The Mill Valley Film Festival, opening today and running through October 12, will naturally feature several of this year's awards season contenders: Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game and so on. But the spotlight will be on local talent as well: Rob Nilsson's A Bridge to a Border, Erica Jordan's In Plain Sight, Christopher Beaver's Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste, William Farley's Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish and Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman's States of Grace. We're collecting previews. » - David Hudson...
- 10/2/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The 36th Mill Valley Film Festival had over 125 screenings, over 75 directors in attendance, and over 1600 California Film Institute members have attended films. It’s been a busy 8 days and I’m not counting on any sleep until Monday.
The past few nights have included some serious high profile talent: Jared Leto came with Dallas Buyers Club's Us premiere. For his first acting role in five years, he showed no rust. The audience must have been undoubtedly different than a Thirty Seconds to Mars concert with an arena filled with screaming teens. Few ticket holders knew him from his his raw performance in Requiem for a Dream and even fewer remembered him as dreamy Jordan Catalano from My So-Called Life (I almost got out my Angela Chase costume from last year's Halloween but thought it might clash with my staff badge). Unfortunately I wasn't able to see the film but neither was Leto who revealed to the audience in the Q&A that he had still not seen Dallas Buyers Club and wasn't planning to anytime soon.
Following the screening of his film 12 Years A Slave (which just won the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival), director Steve McQueen sat down this morning with colleagues J.C. Chandor (All is Lost), Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station), Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace), and John Wells (August: Osage County) for " Variety Focus on Director's Panel ," or, my favorite hour and a half of the festival. The five directors spoke with moderator Peter Caranicas from Variety about their recent projects and the process of working with distributors and actors. The five had great energy and honesty. Coogler told us how he wore a tie and backpack to his initial meeting with the film's producer Forrest Whitaker and Scott Cooper gave a gracious shout out to legendary independent filmmaker Rob Nilsson who was in the audience. For me, I enjoyed the panels comments on scoring a film whether it was the challenges of working with composers or the power of an absence of music in film to let the sound design do the magic.
With a great morning behind me, I'm excited to take on the last two days of the festival. Maybe I'll even be able to fit in a movie!
Trailers:
Dallas Buyers Club
12 Years a Slave...
The past few nights have included some serious high profile talent: Jared Leto came with Dallas Buyers Club's Us premiere. For his first acting role in five years, he showed no rust. The audience must have been undoubtedly different than a Thirty Seconds to Mars concert with an arena filled with screaming teens. Few ticket holders knew him from his his raw performance in Requiem for a Dream and even fewer remembered him as dreamy Jordan Catalano from My So-Called Life (I almost got out my Angela Chase costume from last year's Halloween but thought it might clash with my staff badge). Unfortunately I wasn't able to see the film but neither was Leto who revealed to the audience in the Q&A that he had still not seen Dallas Buyers Club and wasn't planning to anytime soon.
Following the screening of his film 12 Years A Slave (which just won the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival), director Steve McQueen sat down this morning with colleagues J.C. Chandor (All is Lost), Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station), Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace), and John Wells (August: Osage County) for " Variety Focus on Director's Panel ," or, my favorite hour and a half of the festival. The five directors spoke with moderator Peter Caranicas from Variety about their recent projects and the process of working with distributors and actors. The five had great energy and honesty. Coogler told us how he wore a tie and backpack to his initial meeting with the film's producer Forrest Whitaker and Scott Cooper gave a gracious shout out to legendary independent filmmaker Rob Nilsson who was in the audience. For me, I enjoyed the panels comments on scoring a film whether it was the challenges of working with composers or the power of an absence of music in film to let the sound design do the magic.
With a great morning behind me, I'm excited to take on the last two days of the festival. Maybe I'll even be able to fit in a movie!
Trailers:
Dallas Buyers Club
12 Years a Slave...
- 10/15/2013
- by Jennie-Marie Adler
- Sydney's Buzz
A 94-year-old North Dakota man comes across a late friend's diary and sits at a typewriter "to put down a good yarn about those old times." John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's 1978 treasure Northern Lights—screening at Film Forum in a newly restored 35mm print—presents the cheerful fellow, Henry Martinson (Hanson's real-life grandfather, playing himself), as a frame around a hard past. Through him, the film enters 1915-set flashbacks involving a small community of Norwegian farmers and first-generation descendants (all photographed by Judy Irola in harsh, sharp black-and-white) struggling to survive fierce winters and crueler bosses and banks. Henry's friend, the young farmer Ray Sorenson (played by Robert Behling), takes focus as his voiceover narrates how he was drawn in...
- 9/18/2013
- Village Voice
The following is an abridged version of a report on the self-distribution of the 1978 U.S. indie Northern Lights, directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson, written shortly after the film’s release by Hanson himself. The winner of the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979, Hanson and Nilsson’s film is being released by Artists Public Domain/Cinema Conservancy and opens at Film Forum on September 2o. The distribution of Northern Lights was both unusual and unique. Instead of opening in New York, getting reviews, moving to the biggest cities in the country and gradually spreading out to the […]...
- 9/13/2013
- by John Hanson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The following is an abridged version of a report on the self-distribution of the 1978 U.S. indie Northern Lights, directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson, written shortly after the film’s release by Hanson himself. The winner of the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979, Hanson and Nilsson’s film is being released by Artists Public Domain/Cinema Conservancy and opens at Film Forum on September 2o. The distribution of Northern Lights was both unusual and unique. Instead of opening in New York, getting reviews, moving to the biggest cities in the country and gradually spreading out to the […]...
- 9/13/2013
- by John Hanson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Interview conducted by Tom Stockman November 1st, 2012
This Saturday and Sunday (November 10th and 11th) will be Joe Dante Weekend at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater. It’s all part of Cinema St. Louis’ upcoming St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) where Dante will receive a lifetime achievement award from Cinema St. Louis. Directors who have previously been honored with a Sliff Lifetime Achievement Award include Paul Schrader, John Sayles, and Rob Nilsson. Joe Dante is the director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Innerspace, Matinee, and many more great films.
At 6:30pm on Saturday the 10th there will be a screening of Dante’s 2009 family friendly 3D horror film The Hole. This will be followed by an on-stage interview with Dante moderated by Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas. Tim did a similar interview with director Roger Corman last year at the Hi-Pointe as part of Vincentennial, the Vincent Price...
This Saturday and Sunday (November 10th and 11th) will be Joe Dante Weekend at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater. It’s all part of Cinema St. Louis’ upcoming St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) where Dante will receive a lifetime achievement award from Cinema St. Louis. Directors who have previously been honored with a Sliff Lifetime Achievement Award include Paul Schrader, John Sayles, and Rob Nilsson. Joe Dante is the director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Innerspace, Matinee, and many more great films.
At 6:30pm on Saturday the 10th there will be a screening of Dante’s 2009 family friendly 3D horror film The Hole. This will be followed by an on-stage interview with Dante moderated by Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas. Tim did a similar interview with director Roger Corman last year at the Hi-Pointe as part of Vincentennial, the Vincent Price...
- 11/6/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century and with good reason. Apart from the beauty of the planet’s dramatic red colour, early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life have often inspired writers to take on either the possibility that Mars could be colonized by humans or would be incapable of sustaining human life – thus the idea that Martians would one day invade our planet. With the release of Andrew Stanton’s sweeping action-adventure John Carter (a film based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs and set on Mars), I’ve decided to list a few films which also revolve around the mysterious and exotic planet that might be worthy of your time.
#1- Total Recall
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
The premise for Total Recall, a film based on a Philip K. Dick short story ( ‘We Can Remember...
#1- Total Recall
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
The premise for Total Recall, a film based on a Philip K. Dick short story ( ‘We Can Remember...
- 3/10/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
With 2010 only a week over, it already feels like best-of and top-ten lists have been pouring in for months, and we’re already tired of them: the ranking, the exclusions (and inclusions), the rules and the qualifiers. Some people got to see films at festivals, others only catch movies on video; and the ability for us, or any publication, to come up with a system to fairly determine who saw what when and what they thought was the best seems an impossible feat. That doesn’t stop most people from doing it, but we liked the fantasy double features we did last year and for our 3rd Writers Poll we thought we'd do it again.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
- 1/10/2011
- MUBI
im·bue (m-by) tr.v.
1. To inspire or influence thoroughly
From the moment Stacy Keach walks through the door, Imbued had me strangely curious. Donatello (Keach) is a sports bookie of questionable legitimacy, as is illustrated by his arrival in the high rise space, cluttered with large abstract paintings, ladders and an unmade mattress. Donatello is a complicated man, wrought with acrophobia, but he’s good at what he does.
A knock at Donatello’s door reveals Lydia (Liza Sklar), an attractive young call girl who believes she is meeting a man named Brent, but finds Donatello instead. Lydia is invited inside, which begins a slowly unraveling and often awkward intimacy between the two, whom have their own deeply withheld feelings they will ultimately pull from each other.
Imbued was written and directed by Rob Nilsson, a veteran of indie filmmaking with an impressive resume of award-winning films. This film...
1. To inspire or influence thoroughly
From the moment Stacy Keach walks through the door, Imbued had me strangely curious. Donatello (Keach) is a sports bookie of questionable legitimacy, as is illustrated by his arrival in the high rise space, cluttered with large abstract paintings, ladders and an unmade mattress. Donatello is a complicated man, wrought with acrophobia, but he’s good at what he does.
A knock at Donatello’s door reveals Lydia (Liza Sklar), an attractive young call girl who believes she is meeting a man named Brent, but finds Donatello instead. Lydia is invited inside, which begins a slowly unraveling and often awkward intimacy between the two, whom have their own deeply withheld feelings they will ultimately pull from each other.
Imbued was written and directed by Rob Nilsson, a veteran of indie filmmaking with an impressive resume of award-winning films. This film...
- 11/11/2010
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Director Rob Nilsson made Stroke, an intriguing, character-driven story in 2000. Stroke is a curious blending and blurring of the documentary and the fictional narrative, featuring Ron Perlam among the various actors that appear in this collaborative experiment. For those familiar with the work of independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Night On Earth, Coffee And Cigarettes), this film should be a welcome experience.
Rob Nilsson has been making truly independent films since Northern Lights, his first film from 1978, which won the Camera d’Or at Cannes. Nilsson’s 1987 film Heat And Sunlight also earned him the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. I encourage you to take this rare opportunity to attend the screening of Stroke with director Rob Nilsson, and be sure to see his new film Imbued, which is also playing the Saint Louis International Film Festival.
Rob Nilsson Seminar
Saturday, November 13th at 10:30 am
in the Sverdrup building,...
Rob Nilsson has been making truly independent films since Northern Lights, his first film from 1978, which won the Camera d’Or at Cannes. Nilsson’s 1987 film Heat And Sunlight also earned him the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. I encourage you to take this rare opportunity to attend the screening of Stroke with director Rob Nilsson, and be sure to see his new film Imbued, which is also playing the Saint Louis International Film Festival.
Rob Nilsson Seminar
Saturday, November 13th at 10:30 am
in the Sverdrup building,...
- 11/11/2010
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The stars are getting ready to shine at the 19th Annual Stella Artois St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) next month - November 11th throught the 21st. Sliff will screen nearly 340 films: 200 shorts, 90 features and 48 documentaries. This year’s festival features a record 162 programs, with 44 countries represented. The fest will host more than 100 filmmakers and related guests.
The festival opens with the St. Louis premiere of Casino Jack, directed by native son George Hickenlooper, a former Cinema St. Louis Award winner. Featuring a buzz-generating performance by two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, the film chronicles the rise and fall of disgraced super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Other prominent films featured in the festival include:
Blue Valentine
The Black Swan
The Illusionist
Rabbit Hole
Another Year
The Debt
Made In Dagenham
127 Hours
Winter’S Bone
The fest schedule and a complete list of films (with descriptions) is now available at the Cinema St. Louis Web site (www.
The festival opens with the St. Louis premiere of Casino Jack, directed by native son George Hickenlooper, a former Cinema St. Louis Award winner. Featuring a buzz-generating performance by two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, the film chronicles the rise and fall of disgraced super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Other prominent films featured in the festival include:
Blue Valentine
The Black Swan
The Illusionist
Rabbit Hole
Another Year
The Debt
Made In Dagenham
127 Hours
Winter’S Bone
The fest schedule and a complete list of films (with descriptions) is now available at the Cinema St. Louis Web site (www.
- 10/23/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Mill Valley Film Festival opens tonight, filling the next 10 days with some of the most anticipated films of the rest of the year, as well as a selection of international films making its way to the Bay Area. In addition, the festival will also host the awarding of talents such as Woody Harrelson, Clive Owen, Uma Thurman, Jason Reitman and screen legend Anna Karina.
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
- 10/8/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
- It would have been a surprise if the S.F. Film Critics' Circle would have snubbed one of their own. It helps that Gus Van Sant did an excellent job with Milk. While Van Sant’s biopic picked up four awards, the wins worth signaling out is the Best Supporting Actress kudos for Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler and a Best Documentary win for quasi-experimental pic from Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg). See the complete list of winners below:… Best Picture: "Milk"Best Director: Gus Van Sant, "Milk"Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, "Milk"Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Morgan, "Frost/Nixon"Best Actor: Tie: Sean Penn, "Milk" // Tie: Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, "Happy Go Lucky"Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"Best Foreign Language Film: "Let the Right One In"Best Documentary: "My Winnipeg"Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister,
- 12/17/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Gus Van Sant's Sean Penn-starring movie Milk has swept the board at the San Francisco Film Critics Awards - picking up four prizes.
The movie, set in the California city, picked up the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay awards, and Van Sant lifted the Best Director honour.
Penn - who plays Harvey Milk, the city's first openly gay elected official - had to share the Best Actor prize with Mickey Rourke, who has won rave reviews for his performance in The Wrestler.
Elsewhere, the late Heath Ledger was named Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Dark Knight, and Sally Hawkins won the Best Actress award for her role in Happy Go Lucky.
The full list of winners - voted by film critics in the San Francisco area - is as follows:
Best Picture - Milk
Best Director - Gus Van Sant, Milk
Best Original Screenplay - Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk/Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress - Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Foreign Language Film - Let the Right One In
Best Documentary - My Winnipeg
Best Cinematography - Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Marlon Riggs Award for courage + vision in the Bay Area film community - Rob Nilsson, in recognition of his 9@Night series of films.
The movie, set in the California city, picked up the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay awards, and Van Sant lifted the Best Director honour.
Penn - who plays Harvey Milk, the city's first openly gay elected official - had to share the Best Actor prize with Mickey Rourke, who has won rave reviews for his performance in The Wrestler.
Elsewhere, the late Heath Ledger was named Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Dark Knight, and Sally Hawkins won the Best Actress award for her role in Happy Go Lucky.
The full list of winners - voted by film critics in the San Francisco area - is as follows:
Best Picture - Milk
Best Director - Gus Van Sant, Milk
Best Original Screenplay - Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk/Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress - Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Foreign Language Film - Let the Right One In
Best Documentary - My Winnipeg
Best Cinematography - Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Marlon Riggs Award for courage + vision in the Bay Area film community - Rob Nilsson, in recognition of his 9@Night series of films.
- 12/16/2008
- WENN
Critic circles are going to be unveiling their top tens of 2008 at a furious clip and as evidence I have four new lists for you today over the next few pages as critics from St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco and those Southeastern folk have weighed in with their picks for the best films and performances of 2008. As noted in the teaser above Milk comes out with two pics for Best Picture while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire also took a top prize each. Sean Penn continues to battle with Mickey Rourke for the Best Actor slot and even tied in San Francisco as they just couldn't make up their minds and offered up another tie. Heath Ledger took Best Supporting Actor on all four lists and Kate Winslet gets a bit of love for Revolutionary Road from the St. Louis crowd and for The Reader...
- 12/16/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
In 1989, John Cale and Brian Eno met in Moscow to record an album combining the orchestrations of a Soviet pop-classical symphony with the poetry of Dylan Thomas. Cale—ever eager to add an extra creative element—invited filmmaker Rob Nilsson to shoot a documentary about the sessions. But when Eno arrived and found cameras everywhere, he revolted, and Nilsson had to change his approach, relying on surveillance cameras along with a lot of scenes of his own crew debating what to do next. Words For The Dying isn't really about Eno's stubbornness or Cale's vision; it's more about what it's like to see the world from the inside of a series of recording studios and practice spaces, at a time when the global political and cultural situation is shifting rapidly. Nilsson tags the film as "an interpretation of something that happened," and what's engaging about Words For The Dying are.
- 10/22/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
When writer-director Tom Kalin brought his first feature, "Swoon," to the Independent Feature Project's 1991 Independent Feature Film Market, he recalls attending "a charming, homespun affair" with his fellow producers, Christine Vachon and James Schamus. While there, a three-minute reel of "Swoon's" best images and moments at the market captured the attention of acquisitions execs from Fine Line and PBS' "American Playhouse." As a result, Kalin headed off to Sundance the following January with the film presold and on its way to being viewed as a milestone of "new queer cinema."That was then. Today, the Big Apple's Ifp market celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new name -- Independent Film Week, running Sept. 14-19 -- and is a mix of old visions and new strategies. Through the years, however, Ifp's goal has remained consistent: to open doors and create possibilities for aspiring filmmakers with plenty of talent but little money and few connections.
- 9/15/2008
- by Andrew O'Hehir
- backstage.com
9 @ Night Films/Tenderloin yGroup
NEW YORK -- This latest effort from indie filmmaker Rob Nilsson ("Northern Lights", "Signal 7") reflects his mentoring by the late, great John Cassavetes. Shot on black-and-white video and us-ing as its cast members the Tenderloin yGroup, a San Francisco-based acting workshop composed of both professional and nonprofessional inner city residents, "Attitude" unfortunately deviates from Cassavetes' style in that its dialogue was largely improvised by the cast. The result is the typical numbing aimlessness that so often attends such acting exercises, which is only intermittently alleviated by Nilsson's artfully stylized direction.
The fragmented, highly symbolic story line involves the plight of Spoddy (Michael Disend), a crooked car repair shop owner who has just been advised by his doctor that he's suffering from a fatal disease. Raging against his fate, Spoddy must take it on the lam when the furious brother of his longtime girlfriend physically threatens him. Taking solace only in the emotional and spiritual connection he feels with birds, Spoddy, who has nothing but scorn for the members of the underclass with whom he comes into continual contact, eventually redeems himself by accidentally inspiring a group of homeless squatters.
While the filmmaker reveals much visual expertise in his low-budget medium, his storytelling and indulgence with his actors are far less impressive. Pretentious and murky, the film frequently stops cold to allow its performers to engage in lengthy, profanity-laden rants that must have seemed far more impressive on the set than they do onscreen. While the performers, especially Disend, often display a visceral power, they also reveal a lack of discipline, with the result being that the dramatics often spin out of control. Not helping matters are the frequent mystical interludes depicting the lead character's ornithological obsessions.
NEW YORK -- This latest effort from indie filmmaker Rob Nilsson ("Northern Lights", "Signal 7") reflects his mentoring by the late, great John Cassavetes. Shot on black-and-white video and us-ing as its cast members the Tenderloin yGroup, a San Francisco-based acting workshop composed of both professional and nonprofessional inner city residents, "Attitude" unfortunately deviates from Cassavetes' style in that its dialogue was largely improvised by the cast. The result is the typical numbing aimlessness that so often attends such acting exercises, which is only intermittently alleviated by Nilsson's artfully stylized direction.
The fragmented, highly symbolic story line involves the plight of Spoddy (Michael Disend), a crooked car repair shop owner who has just been advised by his doctor that he's suffering from a fatal disease. Raging against his fate, Spoddy must take it on the lam when the furious brother of his longtime girlfriend physically threatens him. Taking solace only in the emotional and spiritual connection he feels with birds, Spoddy, who has nothing but scorn for the members of the underclass with whom he comes into continual contact, eventually redeems himself by accidentally inspiring a group of homeless squatters.
While the filmmaker reveals much visual expertise in his low-budget medium, his storytelling and indulgence with his actors are far less impressive. Pretentious and murky, the film frequently stops cold to allow its performers to engage in lengthy, profanity-laden rants that must have seemed far more impressive on the set than they do onscreen. While the performers, especially Disend, often display a visceral power, they also reveal a lack of discipline, with the result being that the dramatics often spin out of control. Not helping matters are the frequent mystical interludes depicting the lead character's ornithological obsessions.
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