Some may call filmmaker Tom Gilroy old fashioned. His sensibilities tend to reference a style of storytelling that’s very much connected to the past. Take his new feature film, The Cold Lands: the film tells the story of teenager Atticus (newcomer Silas Yelich) whose single mom (the always marvelous Lili Taylor) dies suddenly. Silas takes to the woods like Henry David Thoreau to escape civilization only to meet up with a kindred spirit, the drifter Carter (Peter Scanavino). It’s through this unlikely friendship that both men regain a certain trust in civilization.>>> - Adam Schartoff...
- 8/2/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Some may call filmmaker Tom Gilroy old fashioned. His sensibilities tend to reference a style of storytelling that’s very much connected to the past. Take his new feature film, The Cold Lands: the film tells the story of teenager Atticus (newcomer Silas Yelich) whose single mom (the always marvelous Lili Taylor) dies suddenly. Silas takes to the woods like Henry David Thoreau to escape civilization only to meet up with a kindred spirit, the drifter Carter (Peter Scanavino). It’s through this unlikely friendship that both men regain a certain trust in civilization.>>> - Adam Schartoff...
- 8/2/2014
- Keyframe
In The Cold Lands, Tom Gilroy’s intelligent and evocative new film, a resourceful teen is left to contend with a set of existential questions after he leaves home and tries to tough it out in the woods. Atticus (Silas Yelich) and his mother Nicole (Lili Taylor) live an ascetic lifestyle—though he’s interested in hip-hop and video games, Nicole’s doing her best to keep pop culture and materialistic influences at bay. Together, they roam around Upstate New York in a Subaru station wagon, looking for salvageable items left by the roadside and taking long walks during which they explore the rich […]...
- 3/14/2014
- by Kevin Canfield
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In The Cold Lands, Tom Gilroy’s intelligent and evocative new film, a resourceful teen is left to contend with a set of existential questions after he leaves home and tries to tough it out in the woods. Atticus (Silas Yelich) and his mother Nicole (Lili Taylor) live an ascetic lifestyle—though he’s interested in hip-hop and video games, Nicole’s doing her best to keep pop culture and materialistic influences at bay. Together, they roam around Upstate New York in a Subaru station wagon, looking for salvageable items left by the roadside and taking long walks during which they explore the rich […]...
- 3/14/2014
- by Kevin Canfield
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Often, films challenge morals: what is right, what is wrong, and what happens when you pick a side. There are times, however, when nothing is resolved yet the question lingers throughout the film. This is the baffling case of The Cold Lands, an inferior case study on doing the right thing. The Cold Lands opens with a mother (Lili Taylor) giving her son Atticus (newcomer Silas Yelich) a history lesson in remote backwoods of Catskills. She is a woman who's grown self-reliant and wants that for her boy as well. They're always surrounded by nature, so everything to sustain life is right at their fingertips. Things take an unexpected turn, however, when the mother suddenly dies and Atticus takes off into the woods to live....
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- 3/13/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Eleven-year-old Atticus (Silas Yelich) knows everything a boy his age should: Jobs suck, zombie-massacring video games are cool, and he's way too old to let his mom check him for ticks.
Still, he adores her: Nicole (Lili Taylor) may or may not be a survivalist, but she's so full of grit, resolve, and self-reliance that Boy and Girl Scouts should pray to her in their time of need. But Nicole's independent spirit might not be the best legacy to leave her son.
In the thoughtful and touching coming-of-age tale The Cold Lands, writer-director Tom Gilroy examines self-reliance as a philosophy and way of life. When his single mother suddenly dies, Atticus decides to subsist in the vast woods behind their house rather than leave his fate to the grown-ups his mother so d...
Still, he adores her: Nicole (Lili Taylor) may or may not be a survivalist, but she's so full of grit, resolve, and self-reliance that Boy and Girl Scouts should pray to her in their time of need. But Nicole's independent spirit might not be the best legacy to leave her son.
In the thoughtful and touching coming-of-age tale The Cold Lands, writer-director Tom Gilroy examines self-reliance as a philosophy and way of life. When his single mother suddenly dies, Atticus decides to subsist in the vast woods behind their house rather than leave his fate to the grown-ups his mother so d...
- 3/12/2014
- Village Voice
We've added the trailer as well as the poster for Cinereach's "The Cold Lands," starring Lili Taylor, Peter Scanavino and introducing Silas Yelich. Tom Gilroy wrote and directed the film which opens in limited theaters on March 14th, 2014. "Once Upon a Time. Now." When his fiercely self-reliant mother dies unexpectedly, eleven year-old Atticus is wary of the authorities and flees deep into the forests surrounding his Catskills home. Wandering the woods in shock, relying on what meager food and shelter he comes across, Atticus' grasp on reality begins to fray. His sheltered, off-the-grid childhood dissolves into a directionless life on the move, avoiding other people while trying to differentiate between reality and fantasy.
- 2/26/2014
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Death weighs heavily on those left behind, and children in particular can be sent reeling, trying to make sense of the impact and loss it can impress upon them. And in "The Cold Lands" we see how one young boy struggles to cope when a surprising new friend comes along to try and set him back on track. From writer/director Tom Gilroy, and starring Lili Taylor and Silas Yelich, the drama tells the tale of eleven year old Atticus who flees deep into the forests surrounding his Catskills home after his mother unexpectedly passes away. Trying to survive on whatever food and shelter he can find, Atticus soon crosses paths with Carter, a scruffy, pot smoking drifter, and they forge a bond and alliance. In this exclusive clip, we watch as Atticus and his mother looks in on a dream house and at a life that seems out of...
- 2/19/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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