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Indie Roundup: Nanking Drama, 'Fish Tank' Picked Up
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Indie Roundup reviews the past week of news from the independent film community and provides a peek at what's coming soon. Pictured above, clockwise from upper left: The Brothers Bloom, Sunshine Cleaning, Away We Go, The Class.
Acquisitions. Courtesy of our friends at indieWIRE, we learned of two deals over the past week. City of Life and Death has been picked up by National Geographic Entertainment. Directed by Lu Chuan, the film presents another tale of Japan's occupation of Nanking, China in 1937. We should hear more about it after its upcoming international premiere at the Toronto film festival. Release plans are for later this year or early in 2010. The horrors of Nanking are certainly receiving plenty of attention now in the film world, but I wonder if we're reaching a saturation point?
You'll be able to watch Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank at home, thanks to IFC Films, which will make the film available via their IFC in Theaters 'on demand' program. It will also be playing in theaters, though no release date has been announced. Fish Tank, a coming-of-age drama starring Katie Jarvia and Michael Fassbender, had its world premiere at Cannes, where it shared a special Jury Prize. I really liked Arnold's first film, Red Road, so I'm glad her sophomore effort has been picked up.
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Indie Spotlight - New Releases for Aug. 14
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Here's a quick look at what's opening in limited release this weekend. If they're not playing where you live, keep an eye out as they make the rounds. And if all else fails, there's always DVD.Grace (pictured) is one seriously effed-up horror film about a woman who gives birth to an undead baby. When one of the props required for your movie is a baby bottle filled with blood, you know you've got something special on your hands. I reviewed it for Cinematical at Sundance and said, "First-time writer/director Paul Solet ... proves himself adept both as a visual storyteller and as a guy who can make you crap your pants." Reviews at Rotten Tomatoes are evenly split between positive and negative. If this is your kind of movie, you probably know who you are. In New York and L.A. for now.
Spread, another Sundance premiere, stars Ashton Kutcher as a guy who has lots of sex with lots of women, then decides to do it professionally. (It was one of a few films at Sundance that, rather notoriously, didn't have press screenings.) At Rotten Tomatoes, 8 out of the 10 reviews are negative, though a few do offer praise for Kutcher's surprisingly good performance. Opens today on about 90 screens nationwide.
Trailer Park: Old Shutters are Short but Loud
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Shutter Island
Martin Scorsese's latest thriller looks downright spectacular. The film is based on a novel by Dennis Lehane and Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a U.S. Marshall searching for an escaped mental patient on an island off the coast of Massachusetts. DiCaprio's character comes up against a dark conspiracy and he is haunted by the memory of his late wife who is played by Michelle Williams. And yes that's Jackie Earl Haley as one of the inmates (he plays crazy REALLY well). Watch for this one on October 2.
Old Dogs
OK, the bit where Seth Green is singing "I'm All Out of Love" to the gorilla is pretty funny, and the penguin attack got me to laugh but the plot seems ridiculously simplistic. Robin Williams plays a man whose former girlfriend returns after seven years to tell him that he has twin children. With the help of his buddy played by John Travolta, Williams's character must adapt to the idea of instant fatherhood at a relatively advanced age. Wackiness enuses. This is being billed as a family movie so much of the humor is aimed at kids. This one hits theaters on November 25.
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