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Sundance: Photo Round-Up from around the Internet
Filed under: Independent », Sundance », Festival Reports », Cinematical Indie »
Everyone at Sundance had one thing in common - well, besides
funny-looking-but-warm hats, big sunglasses, lip balm and a love of movies - cameras! Cinematical scoured the web
hunting high and low for the best Sundance photos we could find, to capture the spirit, ambiance and fun of Park City
and the Sundance Film Festival all in one place. It's the next best thing to being there. More photos after the
jump...
Sundance Review: The Darwin Awards
Filed under: Comedy », Independent », Sundance », Theatrical Reviews », Festival Reports », Cinematical Indie »
There are films you want to like, but don't. The opposite is even more rare: Films you don't want to like, but do. The Darwin Awards, the new film by Finn Taylor, is one of the latter. It's episodic, scattershot, uneven and lurches about in the most ungainly fashion imaginable … but at the same time, there are flashes of weird, off-kilter humor in it. Put bluntly? It's a train wreck, but there are some interesting bits and pieces in the wreckage. …
San Francisco Police Department homicide profile Joseph Fiennes has a steady eye and a jumpy stomach. He can look at a crime scene and find amazing clues that lead to the killer … but the sight of blood makes him faint. His mixture of genius and tics mean that he catches – and then loses – the North Beach Killer, and with a student documentary filmmaker trailing his every move, the embarrassing flub is public knowledge. Washed-up, thrown off the force and depressed, he retreats into his obsession: The internet-spread, quasi-urban legends known as The Darwin Awards, people who commit errors in judgment so severe they're removed from the gene pool by them permanently. Fiennes has the idea to take his research into the private sector – by finding Darwin contenders both pre- and post-mortem and using that understanding to save money for a large insurance company.
(More after the jump. ...)
Sundance Deals: Darwin Awards
Filed under: Comedy », Deals », Sundance », Distribution »
A few hours after leaving last night's press
screening of Finn Taylor's The Darwin Awards, my phone started blowing up with the news that the thing had
been bought. Rights were picked up by Bauer Martinez – the new kids on the block, who came out of relative
obscurity to pick up Harsh Times at Toronto – in a deal brokered sometime after the pic's Wednesday
night public premiere. Darwin has an all-star cast, including Winona Ryder, Joseph Fiennes, the late Chris
Penn, poet laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Metallica as Metallica. The film, a takeoff on the website which
"awards" those unlucky enough to get themselves killed in idiotic ways, was shot on video in and around San
Francisco.
Variety had no financial details to report, but we'll pass them along as soon as we can.Sundance: Death of Penn halts Darwin press
Filed under: Sundance »
When news hit the wires late Tuesday that the
body of Chris Penn – star of over 50 films, from Footloose to Reservoir Dogs to Starsky and
Hutch, and brother of Oscar winner Sean – had been found in a Santa Monica condo, most outlets didn't file
the item alongside their coverage of Sundance. But Penn was fourth-billed in The Darwin Awards, the much-anticipated film by Finn Taylor
which premieres here in Park City tonight, and the actor's death is already having an impact on that film's festival
blitz. Out of respect for their co-star, the film's actors (including Winona Ryder, Joseph Fiennes and David Arquette)
have cancelled all planned interviews and media appearences. Tonight's premiere will go through as planned, but sans
press line. We'll be seeing Darwin tomorrow and will have a review up as soon as we can. There's also a Darwin
awards party tonight, but with cast and crew in mourning, we imagine it probably won't be much of a party, despite the
fact that Metallica is scheduled to play in a room the size of my black faux-crocodile handbag.Tommy Lee: from drum kit to TV to movie star
Filed under: Documentary », Music & Musicals », Newsstand »
Apparently at least one person not related to Tommy Lee watched Tommy Lee Goes to College - how else to explain documentarian Bruce Sinofsky's decision to make a feature-length film about the Motley
Crue drummer? Sinofsky, whose last major work was the widely-praised Metallica:
Some Kind of Monster, also won multiple awards for his chilling Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. The man
clearly knows what he's doing, so maybe we should trust him when he says that "In the rock world, there are few
figures as colorful as Tommy Lee," and assume that we really do need to "watch...him interact with family,
friends and business associates." Maybe. One does wonder, though, what it is about Tommy Lee that is crying out
for the big screen - I mean, how is this going to be different from a two hour Tommy Lee version of Meet
the Barkers?
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