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Lodge Kerrigan to Remake 'Les Voleurs'
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If you're really into indie film, you might have heard of Lodge Kerrigan. He's the man behind 1994's Clean, Shaven, 1998's Claire Dolan and 2004's Keane, which Cinematical covered last Spring. The film starred Damian Lewis (Jonesy from Dreamcatcher) and Abigail Breslin, pre-Little Miss Sunshine. But there was another project a few years ago -- In God's Hands -- but you haven't seen that. The negative suffered severe damage before it was released, and the project was scrapped. However, it did bring about one of Hollywoods supercouples -- Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, who starred in the footage.Now the writer/director is set for his next feature through Warner Independent Pictures -- an English-language remake of the French film Les Voleurs, which starred Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil. The original is about a dead man who is brought back home to his wife and son, and how his death effects those he had relationships with. Now under the English title, Thieves, which Kerrigan will both adapt and direct, the movie is described as a New Orleans story about "a police detective who is the black sheep of his family, a band of criminals." Um.. What? The original was an erotic thriller with intricate sexual relationships. Sure, there was an aborted heist, but was there really a whole family of criminals? If you've seen the original, please chime in. Either way, hopefully the project will run smoothly, and Kerrigan's very bad luck has come to an end.
Tonight in NYC: Keane, Q & A with Director Lodge Kerrigan
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There's nothing tackier than a Memorial Day sunburn. Come point and laugh at mine, tonight in New York City. Our friend The Reeler is hosting a screening of Lodge Kerrigan's Keane tonight at the Pioneer Theater on the Lower East Side, and after the movie I'll be sitting in on a discussion with Kerrigan, Lawrence Levi, and The Reeler himself, S.T. VanAirsdale. You probably blinked and missed Keane when it was released late last summer, but the film (which was nominated for Independent Spirit and Gotham Awards alongside films like Brokeback Mountain and Capote) produced some of my favorite pullquotes of 2005. Manohla Dargis' review opened like this: "Lodge Kerrigan keeps such a tight watch on the title character in Keane that at times you think the camera is going to crawl in the man's ear to take a look inside." In The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern wrote, "This isn't entertainment in any conventional sense, but it's a mesmerizing film all the same." And, in positing Keane as the indie flipside to the Jodie Foster hit Flightplan, Roger Ebert took an opportunity to philosophize on the nature of filmgoing: "The complete filmgoer is open to the movie on the screen, and asks it to work in its own ways for its own purposes."
Tonight's event starts at 6:30. If none of the above seems like reason enough to head downtown, know that there will be free beer and pizza after the discussion, courtesy of Two Boots and Magic Hat -- for ticketholders only. You can buy tickets here; for more info, click here.
Soderbergh Re-Cuts Keane
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Even when he's not listed in the credits, Steven Soderbergh often shoots (Peter Andrews, the guy who shot
Traffic? Yeah, that's Soderbergh.) and edits (The busy Mary Ann Bernard, who edited Solaris, Kafka, K
Street, and is working The Good German? Soderbergh.) his own films. And, starting with the new DVD of Lodge H. Kerrigan's indie film Keane, he's begun editing films he produced, as well.Keane, which cleaned up at last year's Deauville Film festival and was also nominated for Gotham and Independent Spirit awards, is the story of a man searching for his lost daughter, who he assumes has been kidnapped from New York's Port Authority bus terminal. The film was just released on DVD in the US, and one of the bonus features on the disc is an alternate version edited by Soderbergh himself. Soderbergh, he created his version after Kerrigan sent him his own rough edit of the film, simply to show the director an alternate approach, "in case it jogged anything (it didn't)." According to the Washington Post, Soderbergh's version, though it shortens the film, reshuffles events dramatically, and is even less commercial than the theatrical release. Man, what a cool feature for film nerds and people who are interested in exploring the power of editing.
[via Film Stalker and Pan and Scan]
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