The 11th edition of the festival, held in Mallorca from July 26 to August 1, will premiere Leos Carax ‘Annette’ in Spain
Judi Dench and Stephen Frears will be the guests of honour at this year’s Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest (Amff), run by Spanish SVoD platform Filmin with the Mallorca Film Commission. It is running as a physical, mainly outdoor, event from July 26 to August 1.
The UK’s Dench and Frears, who worked together on Victoria & Abdul and Philomena, are both set to attend and will participate in a live masterclass on July 31. They will each receive the festival’s Masters Of Cinema award.
Judi Dench and Stephen Frears will be the guests of honour at this year’s Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest (Amff), run by Spanish SVoD platform Filmin with the Mallorca Film Commission. It is running as a physical, mainly outdoor, event from July 26 to August 1.
The UK’s Dench and Frears, who worked together on Victoria & Abdul and Philomena, are both set to attend and will participate in a live masterclass on July 31. They will each receive the festival’s Masters Of Cinema award.
- 7/1/2021
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
‘Calm With Horses’ and “Death Of A Ladies Man’ received production backing.
To Hell Or Hibernia, a dark period comedy, and Trace, a drama about two female police officers tracking a suspected serial killer, are the first features to receive development funding from Ireland’s new regional Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s Fund (Wrap).
Developed by Mayo-based production company Hardy Films and written by Mike Cockayne and Vincent Cleghorne, To Hell Or Hibernia is about two convicts who attempt to flee their captors. Trace is being developed by Galway-based production company Magamedia and written by Ray Lawlor,
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To Hell Or Hibernia, a dark period comedy, and Trace, a drama about two female police officers tracking a suspected serial killer, are the first features to receive development funding from Ireland’s new regional Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s Fund (Wrap).
Developed by Mayo-based production company Hardy Films and written by Mike Cockayne and Vincent Cleghorne, To Hell Or Hibernia is about two convicts who attempt to flee their captors. Trace is being developed by Galway-based production company Magamedia and written by Ray Lawlor,
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- 5/1/2019
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Title taken from 1977 album by Leonard Cohen, who gave blessing to the project before his death.
Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights on Matt Bissonnette’s Death Of A Ladies’ Man starring Irish actor Gabriel Byrne as a hard-drinking, womanising, university poetry professor who unexpectedly finds love when he retreats to a shack in Ireland after discovering he has a brain tumour.
Bissonnette, whose credits include the 2009 comedy drama Passenger Side, will direct from his own script. Other cast members include Quebecois actor Antoine-Olivier Pilon, best-known for his award-winning performance in Mommy.
The film is a Canadian-Irish co-production produced by Bissonnette’s long-time collaborator Corey Marr, respected Canadian producer Marie-Claude Poulin and Ireland’s Martina Niland.
Byrne’s character Samuel O’Shea has seen better days as the film opens. His second marriage is ending and he has started seeing strange things such Frankenstein sidling up to him in a bar, or his much-missed...
Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights on Matt Bissonnette’s Death Of A Ladies’ Man starring Irish actor Gabriel Byrne as a hard-drinking, womanising, university poetry professor who unexpectedly finds love when he retreats to a shack in Ireland after discovering he has a brain tumour.
Bissonnette, whose credits include the 2009 comedy drama Passenger Side, will direct from his own script. Other cast members include Quebecois actor Antoine-Olivier Pilon, best-known for his award-winning performance in Mommy.
The film is a Canadian-Irish co-production produced by Bissonnette’s long-time collaborator Corey Marr, respected Canadian producer Marie-Claude Poulin and Ireland’s Martina Niland.
Byrne’s character Samuel O’Shea has seen better days as the film opens. His second marriage is ending and he has started seeing strange things such Frankenstein sidling up to him in a bar, or his much-missed...
- 2/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Title taken from 1977 album by Leonard Cohen, who gave blessing to the project before his death.
Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights on Matt Bissonnette’s Death Of A Ladies’ Man starring Irish actor Gabriel Byrne as a hard-drinking, womanising, university poetry professor who unexpectedly finds love when he retreats to a shack in Ireland after discovering he has a brain tumour.
Bissonnette, whose credits include the 2009 comedy drama Passenger Side, will direct from his own script. Other cast members include Quebecois actor Antoine-Olivier Pilon, best-known for his award-winning performance in Mommy.
The film is a Canadian-Irish co-production produced by Bissonnette’s long-time collaborator Corey Marr, respected Canadian producer Marie-Claude Poulin and Ireland’s Martina Niland.
Byrne’s character Samuel O’Shea has seen better days as the film opens. His second marriage is ending and he has started seeing strange things such Frankenstein sidling up to him in a bar, or his much-missed...
Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights on Matt Bissonnette’s Death Of A Ladies’ Man starring Irish actor Gabriel Byrne as a hard-drinking, womanising, university poetry professor who unexpectedly finds love when he retreats to a shack in Ireland after discovering he has a brain tumour.
Bissonnette, whose credits include the 2009 comedy drama Passenger Side, will direct from his own script. Other cast members include Quebecois actor Antoine-Olivier Pilon, best-known for his award-winning performance in Mommy.
The film is a Canadian-Irish co-production produced by Bissonnette’s long-time collaborator Corey Marr, respected Canadian producer Marie-Claude Poulin and Ireland’s Martina Niland.
Byrne’s character Samuel O’Shea has seen better days as the film opens. His second marriage is ending and he has started seeing strange things such Frankenstein sidling up to him in a bar, or his much-missed...
- 2/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Molly Parker has been slapped with divorce papers from husband Benedict Matthew Bissonnette, but the “House of Cards” actress can’t be too surprised considering the couple has been separated since 2009. As TMZ reports, papers have finally been filed seven years after the couple separated after, at that time, seven years of marriage (they wed in 2002). Related: Robin […]...
- 10/29/2016
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Molly Parker's husband is ending their marriage, but he really took his sweet time doing so. The "House of Cards" actress married Benedict Matthew Bissonnette in 2002, and he says they separated 7 years later in 2009. Now -- after another 7 years -- he got around to filing for divorce. Benedict cited irreconcilable differences, but it's been so long you gotta wonder if he remembers the exact nature of the differences. The good news -- everything seems super cordial.
- 10/29/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
An upcoming Fox News documentary with the ex-seal who claims to have shot and killed Osama bin Laden has prompted the U.S. Navy Special Warfare Command to write an open letter with a bit of advice for any Seal looking to capitalize on their covert work: Don't do it. "At Naval Special Warfare's core is the Seal ethos," reads the letter from Rear Adm. Brian Losey and Force Master Chief Michael Magaraci obtained by the website Sofrep.com. "A critical tenant of our ethos is 'I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions.
- 11/7/2014
- by Johnny Dodd, @johnny_dodd
- PEOPLE.com
An upcoming Fox News documentary with the ex-seal who claims to have shot and killed Osama bin Laden has prompted the U.S. Navy Special Warfare Command to write an open letter with a bit of advice for any Seal looking to capitalize on their covert work: Don't do it. "At Naval Special Warfare's core is the Seal ethos," reads the letter from Rear Adm. Brian Losey and Force Master Chief Michael Magaraci obtained by the website Sofrep.com. "A critical tenant of our ethos is 'I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions.
- 11/7/2014
- by Johnny Dodd, @johnny_dodd
- PEOPLE.com
A member of the Navy Seal team that killed Osama Bin Laden is being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department over information he wrote and spoke about regarding the historic mission. Also read: Navy Seal Who Killed Osama Bin Laden to Reveal Identity on Fox News According to the New York Times, Matt Bissonnette, who says he was a member of Seal Team 6 that found and killed bin Laden, wrote the bestselling book “No Easy Day” under a pseudonym two years ago. He also gave paid paid speeches at corporate events. He's now under criminal investigation looking at whether he.
- 10/31/2014
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
Washington (AP) - After U.S. Navy Seal snipers conducted a dramatic rescue in 2009 that freed a cargo ship captain being held by pirates, $30,000 disappeared from a lifeboat, triggering an investigation that questioned the integrity of the commandos.
And military officials, who had said that just three shots were fired, soon learned that number was actually much higher in the killing of the pirates in the now-famous operation.
Those are among the messy details missing from previous accounts of the famous raid, including a new Hollywood version released Friday starring Tom Hanks.
On April 8, 2009, four armed Somali pirates scurried up the side of a large cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, and took Capt. Richard Phillips and his crew hostage. In a failed attempt to get the pirates to leave, Phillips gave them $30,000 from the ship safe. The pirates eventually abandoned the Maersk, jumping into a lifeboat and taking the cash and Phillips at gunpoint.
And military officials, who had said that just three shots were fired, soon learned that number was actually much higher in the killing of the pirates in the now-famous operation.
Those are among the messy details missing from previous accounts of the famous raid, including a new Hollywood version released Friday starring Tom Hanks.
On April 8, 2009, four armed Somali pirates scurried up the side of a large cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, and took Capt. Richard Phillips and his crew hostage. In a failed attempt to get the pirates to leave, Phillips gave them $30,000 from the ship safe. The pirates eventually abandoned the Maersk, jumping into a lifeboat and taking the cash and Phillips at gunpoint.
- 10/11/2013
- by The Associated Press
- Moviefone
Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty has caused controversy in the States, but how has it gone down in Pakistan? Our correspondent reports on the film's howlers
It would be nice to watch Zero Dark Thirty in the cinema in Pakistan. The extraordinary final sequence when Seal Team Six swoops into Abbottabad and raids the compound where Osama bin Laden had remained undetected for six years would definitely benefit from surround sound and a big screen.
And it would be fun to listen to the chortles of derision from a Pakistani audience in a real time, rather than following the tweets and Facebook updates of those who watched versions downloaded from the internet weeks before its release in the UK.
But I'm not holding my breath that Kathryn Bigelow's account of the hunt for America's greatest enemy will go on general release here any time soon. The film's distributors...
It would be nice to watch Zero Dark Thirty in the cinema in Pakistan. The extraordinary final sequence when Seal Team Six swoops into Abbottabad and raids the compound where Osama bin Laden had remained undetected for six years would definitely benefit from surround sound and a big screen.
And it would be fun to listen to the chortles of derision from a Pakistani audience in a real time, rather than following the tweets and Facebook updates of those who watched versions downloaded from the internet weeks before its release in the UK.
But I'm not holding my breath that Kathryn Bigelow's account of the hunt for America's greatest enemy will go on general release here any time soon. The film's distributors...
- 1/28/2013
- by Jon Boone
- The Guardian - Film News
Washington -- Seven members of the secretive Navy Seal Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, senior Navy officials said Thursday
Four other SEALs are under investigation for similar alleged violations, one official said.
They are alleged to have divulged classified information to the maker of a video game, "Medal Of Honor: Warfighter."
Each of the seven received a punitive letter of reprimand and a partial forfeiture of pay for two months. Those actions generally hinder a military member's career.
The deputy commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Adm. Garry Bonelli, issued a statement acknowledging that nonjudicial punishments had been handed out for misconduct, but he did not offer any details.
"We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy," Bonelli said.
Four other SEALs are under investigation for similar alleged violations, one official said.
They are alleged to have divulged classified information to the maker of a video game, "Medal Of Honor: Warfighter."
Each of the seven received a punitive letter of reprimand and a partial forfeiture of pay for two months. Those actions generally hinder a military member's career.
The deputy commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Adm. Garry Bonelli, issued a statement acknowledging that nonjudicial punishments had been handed out for misconduct, but he did not offer any details.
"We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy," Bonelli said.
- 11/9/2012
- by AP/The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Matt Bissonnette (writing under the pen name Mark Owen), a member of the elite Seal Team 6 that killed the terrorist leader, debuted today at the top of Amazon’s sales charts, amid continuing controversy but generally positive reviews. Bissonnette (in disguise to protect his identity) is scheduled to make his first television appearance promoting the book on 60 Minutes on Sunday, Sept. 9, in an interview with Scott Pelley. A group of former Special Operations veterans (for example the Army’s Green Berets, Rangers and Delta
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- 9/4/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Matt told you all about a New York Post article telling us Steven Spielberg is making a movie based on retired Seal Matt Bissonnette’s book No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden. If you can’t tell by the title, the book covers the mission of Seal Team Six as they hunt and eventually kill Osama bin Laden.
Well, forget about it, because the film ain’t happenin’.
The Wrap is reporting that Senior Spielbergo’s spokesman, Marvin Levy, has said The New York Post got it wrong:
“Neither Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Studios or DreamWorks Television will be optioning Mark Owen’s book ‘No Easy Day.’”
So, for now at least, Spielberg is not planning on adapting Bissonnette’s book, but I’m sure someone will eventually.
Source: The Wrap...
Well, forget about it, because the film ain’t happenin’.
The Wrap is reporting that Senior Spielbergo’s spokesman, Marvin Levy, has said The New York Post got it wrong:
“Neither Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Studios or DreamWorks Television will be optioning Mark Owen’s book ‘No Easy Day.’”
So, for now at least, Spielberg is not planning on adapting Bissonnette’s book, but I’m sure someone will eventually.
Source: The Wrap...
- 8/28/2012
- by Philip Sticco
- LRMonline.com
Morning 5: The Rock is a 'Badass', Fassbender Joins Portman and DiCaprio, Maguire and Hardy Team Up.
1.) Michael Fassbender is negotiating to star alongside Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun, a Western from We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay. Portman will also produce the sub-$20 million film through her handsomecharlie banner. [Vulture] 2.) Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Tom Hardy have joined forces to produce an untitled pitch for an animal-trafficking drama at Warner Bros. The film is said to be in the vein of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, taking a look at animal trafficking from several different angles. The idea actually came from Hardy, then his Inception co-star DiCaprio, a long-time animal-rights activist came aboard and brought along his lifelong friend Maguire. They're currently looking for a screenwriter and while the project sounds promising, I also imagine it being very difficult to watch as an animal lover. [THR] 3.) Lionsgate has hired The Adjustment Bureau helmer George Nolfi to direct Xoxo, a so-called "Fatal Attraction for the internet age.
- 8/28/2012
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
Steven Spielberg will not make a movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden based on an upcoming book, according to his spokesman Marvin Levy, who on Monday rebutted a report to that effect published over the weekend by the New York Post. According to the Post's Page Six, the director and DreamWorks have been talking with the author of "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden" about adapting it for the big screen. The author of the book is retired Seal Matt Bissonnette, who...
- 8/28/2012
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
I feel it. I feel the Osama bin Laden caught and killed by Navy Seals subgenre of action movies already getting burnt out.
First, there’s Zero Dark Thirty, the hotly anticipated follow-up film from Kathryn Bigelow after The Hurt Locker. Zero Dark Thirty gives the viewer a decade-long glimpse into the hunt and eventual demise of the most wanted man in the world: Osama bin Laden.
That comes out December 19th.
Second, there’s Code Name Geronimo. The Weinstein Company has the rights to that film, which John Stockwell directed. Again, it’s about the group of Navy Seals who learn that the target of their next mission codenamed “Geronimo” is indeed the 9/11 mastermind.
That comes out sometime next year.
Now we have Page Six speculation that not only might there be another Osama manhunt film coming, but that it may be directed by Hollywood’s golden calf — Steven Spielberg.
First, there’s Zero Dark Thirty, the hotly anticipated follow-up film from Kathryn Bigelow after The Hurt Locker. Zero Dark Thirty gives the viewer a decade-long glimpse into the hunt and eventual demise of the most wanted man in the world: Osama bin Laden.
That comes out December 19th.
Second, there’s Code Name Geronimo. The Weinstein Company has the rights to that film, which John Stockwell directed. Again, it’s about the group of Navy Seals who learn that the target of their next mission codenamed “Geronimo” is indeed the 9/11 mastermind.
That comes out sometime next year.
Now we have Page Six speculation that not only might there be another Osama manhunt film coming, but that it may be directed by Hollywood’s golden calf — Steven Spielberg.
- 8/28/2012
- by Matt Granados
- LRMonline.com
After Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) announced that she was developing "Zero Dark Thirty," a movie based on the hunting and killing of Osama Bin Laden, news quickly started spreading that the Obama administration was leaking sensitive information to the filmmaker. Since then, the film has become very controversial. But Steven Spielberg is now trying to make his own Bin Laden film, and it promises to be even more controversial. According to NY Post, retired Seal Matt Bissonnette is in talks with DreamWorks and Spielberg to turn his upcoming book "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden" into a movie. Bissonnette was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan, so he clearly knows what went on. The problem is that he's not supposed to be blabbing about it and was required to...
- 8/28/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
Looks like Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty won't be the only Navy Seal Osama bin Laden assassination movie we see made. Apparently director Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks are in talks with retired Seal Team Six member Matt Bissonnette to acquire his book, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden, so Spielberg can adapt it for the big screen.
Owen was “one of the first men through the door on the third floor” of bin Laden’s lair in Pakistan and was there when he died. Following the announcement of this book, Fox News revealed that Bissonnette, who used the pseudonym Mark Owen for his book, could "face prosecution for revealing sensitive and classified information that could cause Us forces harm."
I'd actually love to see Spielberg take on a movie like this. He's never really made a modern warfare kind of film.
Owen was “one of the first men through the door on the third floor” of bin Laden’s lair in Pakistan and was there when he died. Following the announcement of this book, Fox News revealed that Bissonnette, who used the pseudonym Mark Owen for his book, could "face prosecution for revealing sensitive and classified information that could cause Us forces harm."
I'd actually love to see Spielberg take on a movie like this. He's never really made a modern warfare kind of film.
- 8/27/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Though Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty was the first project to focus on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, it looks like she hasn’t cornered the market on the topic just yet. Matt Bissonnette, a former Navy Seal who wrote his own eyewitness account of Osama bin Laden’s death, is now talking to Steven Spielberg about adapting his upcoming book into an action film. [New York Post]
According to the publisher, Dutton, Bissonnette was “one of the first men through the door on the third floor” of bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout and witnessed his death. He later wrote the book under the pen name Mark Owen, with the title No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden, which will be released Sept. 11. NY Post’s sources say that he has met with HBO’s Richard Plepler and is still talking to Dreamworks...
According to the publisher, Dutton, Bissonnette was “one of the first men through the door on the third floor” of bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout and witnessed his death. He later wrote the book under the pen name Mark Owen, with the title No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden, which will be released Sept. 11. NY Post’s sources say that he has met with HBO’s Richard Plepler and is still talking to Dreamworks...
- 8/27/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Kathryn Bigelow is going to have the first cinematic word on the assassination of Osama bin Laden with this December's Zero Dark Thirty, but as with any good real life story, there's room for another take. And who better to do it than Steven Spielberg, who's got his own biopic of Abraham Lincoln coming this fall, and who has told plenty of big real-life tales in the past with the likes of Schindler's List and Munich. For Spielberg's own take on Osama bin Laden, he would be adapting the Navy Seal eyewitness account No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden. According to The New York Post, the Seal in question-- Matt Bissonnette, who wrote the book under the pen name Mark Owen-- is in talks with Spielberg's DreamWorks Entertainment to turn the book into a film. That doesn't mean Spielberg would wind...
- 8/27/2012
- cinemablend.com
1.) Steven Spielberg is looking to rival Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty with his own account of Osama Bin Laden's manhunt. Retired Navy Seal Matt Bissonnette, who wrote the memoir "[amazon asin="0525953728" text="No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden"] under the pseudonym Mark Owen, has entered talks with the filmmaker about turning the book into a movie. Bissonnette has also been in discussions with DreamWorks and HBO. Robopocalypse is locked in as Spielberg's next directing gig, so even if he wins the rights we won't see the film for at least a couple years. Even still, it would be interesting to see what this take would add to the story. It would be nice to see a more personal, focused character piece, whereas Bigelow's film seems more operations-based, looking at the hunt from several levels of government intelligence. [NY Post] 2.) Jamie Bell and Connie Nielsen have joined the cast of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, which begins its 11-week shoot in Germany tomorrow.
- 8/27/2012
- by Kevin Blumeyer
- Rope of Silicon
Steven Spielberg is reportedly in talks to direct a film adaptation of "No Easy Day", a book by former Seal Team 6 member Matt Bissonnette (aka. Mark Owen), for Dreamworks says The Atlantic Wire.
The book is a first-hand account of what happened on the ground during Operation Neptune Spear - the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan which led to the death of the al-Qaeda leader.
The film is only in the early stages of development, far behind two other movies in the works about the military operation which are due for release this year - John Stockwell's "Code Name Geronimo" and Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty".
The book is a first-hand account of what happened on the ground during Operation Neptune Spear - the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan which led to the death of the al-Qaeda leader.
The film is only in the early stages of development, far behind two other movies in the works about the military operation which are due for release this year - John Stockwell's "Code Name Geronimo" and Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty".
- 8/27/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Passenger Side is the sort of indie film that makes Sundance breakouts, such as Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, seem like industriously-produced blockbusters by comparison. As a pure exercise in economy, Matt Bissonnette’s latest feature – his third low-fi venture in a row, no less – laudably demonstrates the importance of script and performance over the slicker production a larger budget invites.
As a deceptively simple story of two estranged brothers, Michael (Adam Scott) and Tobey (Joel Bissonnette), spending a day driving around getting reacquainted, Passenger Side is a pure breeze. Succeeding in large part because of a smartly selected backdrop – an ever-changing Los Angeles landscape, brimming with life at every moment – the film takes full advantage of the city’s vast beauty.
A road movie of sorts, though one set entirely in one city, we follow Michael and Tobey as they drive around some haunts of L.
Passenger Side is the sort of indie film that makes Sundance breakouts, such as Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, seem like industriously-produced blockbusters by comparison. As a pure exercise in economy, Matt Bissonnette’s latest feature – his third low-fi venture in a row, no less – laudably demonstrates the importance of script and performance over the slicker production a larger budget invites.
As a deceptively simple story of two estranged brothers, Michael (Adam Scott) and Tobey (Joel Bissonnette), spending a day driving around getting reacquainted, Passenger Side is a pure breeze. Succeeding in large part because of a smartly selected backdrop – an ever-changing Los Angeles landscape, brimming with life at every moment – the film takes full advantage of the city’s vast beauty.
A road movie of sorts, though one set entirely in one city, we follow Michael and Tobey as they drive around some haunts of L.
- 4/2/2011
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Source Code (12A) (Duncan Jones, 2011, Us/Fra)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright. 93 mins.
After cult hit Moon, Jones goes for the mainstream with a conceptual thriller that makes Christopher Nolan look soulless but would have Hitchcock scratching his head. The Deja Vu-meets-Groundhog Day plot forces Gyllenhaal's GI to relive the last eight minutes of a train bombing over and over till he finds the terrorist (experimental technology – don't ask). That shouldn't leave much time for relationships, big questions or light relief but it's all squeezed in, just about…
Sucker Punch (12A)
(Zack Snyder, 2011, Us/Can) Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone. 110 mins.
Zack Snyder shows you his fantasy, which turns out to consist of fetish-outfitted babes in scenarios out of computer games and women's prison movies, to a diluted alt soundtrack. This man needs help.
Oranges And Sunshine (15)
(Jim Loach, 2010, UK/Aus) Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving,...
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright. 93 mins.
After cult hit Moon, Jones goes for the mainstream with a conceptual thriller that makes Christopher Nolan look soulless but would have Hitchcock scratching his head. The Deja Vu-meets-Groundhog Day plot forces Gyllenhaal's GI to relive the last eight minutes of a train bombing over and over till he finds the terrorist (experimental technology – don't ask). That shouldn't leave much time for relationships, big questions or light relief but it's all squeezed in, just about…
Sucker Punch (12A)
(Zack Snyder, 2011, Us/Can) Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone. 110 mins.
Zack Snyder shows you his fantasy, which turns out to consist of fetish-outfitted babes in scenarios out of computer games and women's prison movies, to a diluted alt soundtrack. This man needs help.
Oranges And Sunshine (15)
(Jim Loach, 2010, UK/Aus) Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving,...
- 4/1/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Bitter Feast"
Directed by Joe Maggio
Released by Mpi Home Video
When a food critic ("Humpday"'s Justin Leonard) takes a butcher knife to the restaurant of a celebrity chef (James LeGros), the chef plots the ultimate revenge in this gory satirical thriller from director Joe Maggio. (My review from the Los Angeles Film Festival is here.)
"Case 39"
Directed by Christian Alvart
Released by Paramount
2010 is probably a year best forgotten by Renee Zellweger, who not only appeared in the execrable "My Own Love Song," which went straight to Netflix, but also this thriller that was filmed in 2006, but didn't see a release until last fall. Zellweger stars as a social worker whose latest case involving a child (Jodelle Ferland) that she believes is a victim of abuse leads to something far more terrifying. Bradley Cooper and Ian McShane co-star.
"Catfish...
"Bitter Feast"
Directed by Joe Maggio
Released by Mpi Home Video
When a food critic ("Humpday"'s Justin Leonard) takes a butcher knife to the restaurant of a celebrity chef (James LeGros), the chef plots the ultimate revenge in this gory satirical thriller from director Joe Maggio. (My review from the Los Angeles Film Festival is here.)
"Case 39"
Directed by Christian Alvart
Released by Paramount
2010 is probably a year best forgotten by Renee Zellweger, who not only appeared in the execrable "My Own Love Song," which went straight to Netflix, but also this thriller that was filmed in 2006, but didn't see a release until last fall. Zellweger stars as a social worker whose latest case involving a child (Jodelle Ferland) that she believes is a victim of abuse leads to something far more terrifying. Bradley Cooper and Ian McShane co-star.
"Catfish...
- 1/5/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
After a run at the previous Toronto International Film Festival, Passenger Side, the next film from Matt Bissonnette, will be released in Canada on April 23.
Synopsis:
Michael Brown’s (Adam Scott) birthday begins with a telephone call from his estranged, drug addicted brother Tobey (Joel Bissonnette). Tobey is totally unaware that it is his older brother’s birthday, but he is very aware that his car is broken, and he begs Michael to drive him on various apparently legitimate, vital errands.
As Bruce Springsteen has astutely noted, a man who turns his back on his family just ain’t no good, and so Michael puts off his seemingly romantic birthday plans, and with his brother embarks on a sketchy, meandering day long odyssey though the mysteries of Los Angeles County.
As the day wears on, it becomes clear that this drive will lead them to some very unexpected destinations.
Other...
Synopsis:
Michael Brown’s (Adam Scott) birthday begins with a telephone call from his estranged, drug addicted brother Tobey (Joel Bissonnette). Tobey is totally unaware that it is his older brother’s birthday, but he is very aware that his car is broken, and he begs Michael to drive him on various apparently legitimate, vital errands.
As Bruce Springsteen has astutely noted, a man who turns his back on his family just ain’t no good, and so Michael puts off his seemingly romantic birthday plans, and with his brother embarks on a sketchy, meandering day long odyssey though the mysteries of Los Angeles County.
As the day wears on, it becomes clear that this drive will lead them to some very unexpected destinations.
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- 4/19/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
When I saw that trailer for Leap Year I had one of those “hey I love that guy, but what's his name?!” moments with Amy Adams’ American boyfriend. And then today a friend forwarded me a trailer for this new indie film Passenger Side (I’ll watch anything named after a Wilco song) and there’s the guy again. Turns out the actor in question Adam Scott (not the equally attractive PGA golfer of the same name). I first realized I’d seen Scott in Passenger Side director Matt Bissonnette’s charming earlier film Who Loves The Sun. I IMDb’d him and,...
- 1/13/2010
- by Wendy Mitchell
- EW.com - PopWatch
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Canadian film distributors Kinosmith are offering the following DVD titles of note from their extensive film collection :
"The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins" follows Vanessa Beecroft’s intentions to adopt orphaned twins, and how it affects her art and personal life.
"...Pop star of the art world, Vanessa Beecroft is determined to adopt orphaned twins, an intention that bleeds into her art and reveals her volatile relationship with her husband. Alongside the adoption process Vanessa photographs herself breast feeding the twins, creating her own artwork. Like Angelina and Madonna, Vanessa is a white westerner intent on rescuing third world babies. But at what cost to her personal life?..."
In "Ghosts", a 17 year-old girl left on her own, creates an intriguing journey to meet a new companion and reunite with her mother.
"...Nina (Julia Hummer) is a vulnerable 17-year old, alone in the world except...
Canadian film distributors Kinosmith are offering the following DVD titles of note from their extensive film collection :
"The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins" follows Vanessa Beecroft’s intentions to adopt orphaned twins, and how it affects her art and personal life.
"...Pop star of the art world, Vanessa Beecroft is determined to adopt orphaned twins, an intention that bleeds into her art and reveals her volatile relationship with her husband. Alongside the adoption process Vanessa photographs herself breast feeding the twins, creating her own artwork. Like Angelina and Madonna, Vanessa is a white westerner intent on rescuing third world babies. But at what cost to her personal life?..."
In "Ghosts", a 17 year-old girl left on her own, creates an intriguing journey to meet a new companion and reunite with her mother.
"...Nina (Julia Hummer) is a vulnerable 17-year old, alone in the world except...
- 12/7/2009
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Canadian-based film distributors Kinosmith, in association with DVD partner Project X Distribution have announced new DVD titles to their extensive film collection. The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins follows Vanessa Beecroft.s intentions to adopt orphaned twins, and how it affects her art and personal life. "...Pop star of the art world, Vanessa Beecroft is determined to adopt orphaned twins, an intention that bleeds into her art and reveals her volatile relationship with her husband. Alongside the adoption process Vanessa photographs herself breast feeding the twins, creating her own artwork. Like Angelina and Madonna, Vanessa is a white westerner intent on rescuing third world babies. But at what cost to her personal life?..." In Ghosts, a 17 year-old girl left on her own, creates an intriguing journey to meet a new companion and reunite with her mother. "...Nina (Julia Hummer) is a vulnerable 17-year old, alone in the world except...
- 11/20/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Director: Matt Bissonnette Writer(s): Matt Bissonnette Starring: Adam Scott, Joel Bissonnette, Robin Tunney, Gale Harold, Penelope Allen, Vitta Quinn, Mickey Cottrell Michael (Adam Scott) is a frustrated writer living alone in Los Angeles. His younger brother, Tobey (Joel Bissonnette), needs to embark on a wild goose chase to find something; the problem is that his car is broken down, so he asks Michael to be his chauffeur. Tobey is a recovering drug addict, so most of his requests are greeted with suspicion by his older brother. Michael eventually gives in to Tobey’s pleading, and their entire day is spent driving around Los Angeles (as well as out-lying areas) in Michael’s car. Every location that they stop at, Michael remains in the car and is frequently subjected to absurd events, as Tobey acquires another clue sending them to another location. 90% of the film takes place within the...
- 11/16/2009
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Director: Matt Bissonnette In a week filled with documentaries and experimental features, I was glad to find that the Friday afternoon screening at the first Lff press week was a laid-back, quirky, slacker road movie set in East La with a soundtrack consisting of Dinosaur Jr, Wilco, Leonard Cohen, and a host of other indie rock legends. Passenger Side is the story of Michael Brown (Adam Scott), who is awoken on the morning of his 37th birthday by a phone call from his annoying, ex-drug addict brother, Toby (Joel Bissonnette, brother of director Matt). Toby persuades Michael to ditch his girlfriend and spend the day driving him around on some mysterious mission. What follows is a fairly lackadaisical, but never nebulous, talkative journey around the outskirts of Los Angeles. I say the story is lackadaisical because the conversation mostly revolves around witty banter (I hate that word, but it’s...
- 10/6/2009
- by Nicholas Deigman
- t5m.com
Film Independent, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, has chosen 10 projects for its seventh annual Fast Track program, which connects filmmakers with film industry professionals.
Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's "Better This World," one of the projects chosen, has also been awarded the second annual HBO Documentary Films Fellowship.
"Better" follows the journey of two childhood friends from Midland, Texas, who set out to prove their manhood to themselves and to Brandon Darby, a revolutionary activist turned FBI informant. The fellowship combines HBO's funding with Find's year-round support services to give documentary filmmakers the necessary tools to develop their craft.
The Fast Track Program, sponsored by Eastman Kodak Co., takes place during Laff, which runs through June 28.
Industry participants include representatives from Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate, the Weinstein Co., Participant Prods., Roadside Attractions, Yari Film Group, the Film Department,...
Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's "Better This World," one of the projects chosen, has also been awarded the second annual HBO Documentary Films Fellowship.
"Better" follows the journey of two childhood friends from Midland, Texas, who set out to prove their manhood to themselves and to Brandon Darby, a revolutionary activist turned FBI informant. The fellowship combines HBO's funding with Find's year-round support services to give documentary filmmakers the necessary tools to develop their craft.
The Fast Track Program, sponsored by Eastman Kodak Co., takes place during Laff, which runs through June 28.
Industry participants include representatives from Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate, the Weinstein Co., Participant Prods., Roadside Attractions, Yari Film Group, the Film Department,...
- 6/19/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Universal Pictures' "Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, will screen as the Centerpiece Premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs June 18-28.
Directed by Michael Mann, whose "Collateral" screened as a sneak peek at the festival five years ago, "Enemies" also stars Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard. The film opens nationally July 1.
Organized by Film Independent, the fest announced the bulk of its lineup Tuesday,encompassing more than 70 feature films, 70 shorts and 50 music videos drawn from more than 30 countries.
Said Rebecca Yeldham, who recently stepped into her new role as the festival's director: "The Laff is a celebration of culture, cinema and community. We're dedicated to our public, and we're dedicated to our filmmakers. We see ourselves as part of the international community of artists and passionate cinephiles."
Joining Yeldham and programming director Rachel Rosen at the Hotel Palomar in Westwood, actors Gael Garcia Bernal...
Directed by Michael Mann, whose "Collateral" screened as a sneak peek at the festival five years ago, "Enemies" also stars Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard. The film opens nationally July 1.
Organized by Film Independent, the fest announced the bulk of its lineup Tuesday,encompassing more than 70 feature films, 70 shorts and 50 music videos drawn from more than 30 countries.
Said Rebecca Yeldham, who recently stepped into her new role as the festival's director: "The Laff is a celebration of culture, cinema and community. We're dedicated to our public, and we're dedicated to our filmmakers. We see ourselves as part of the international community of artists and passionate cinephiles."
Joining Yeldham and programming director Rachel Rosen at the Hotel Palomar in Westwood, actors Gael Garcia Bernal...
- 5/5/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday and Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- The Genies, Canada's film awards, on Monday turned into a shootout between a movie about Russian mobsters in London and another that chronicles the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises", a portrait of a ruthless killer tied to an organized crime family, and Roger Spottiswoode's "Shake Hands With the Devil", a biopic of former Canadian Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire and his ill-fated U.N. mission in Rwanda, each snagged 12 nominations to lead the field.
Cronenberg and Spottiswoode will see their dramas compete in the best film and director competitions, as well as in a host of craft categories.
"Devil" lead Roy Dupuis will go up against Viggo Mortensen of "Promises" for best actor.
In the best actress competition, Julie Christie continues her awards-season success with a Genie nomination for "Away From Her", in which she plays a woman with Alzheimer's disease.
"Away From Her" earned seven Genie noms, including for one for best film and a director nomination for Sarah Polley.
Contending with Christie for best actress will be two indie darlings: Ellen Page, for Bruce McDonald's "The Tracey Fragments", and Molly Parker, for "Who Loves the Sun", directed by her husband Matt Bissonnette.
Danny Glover, German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl and British playwright Steve Knight also were named Monday in the list of Genie nominees, as organizers encourage interest in Canadian films that often go unnoticed at the domestic boxoffice.
Other multiple nominees in the Genie competition include Stephane Lafleur's "Continental, un film sans fusil" (Continental, A Film Without Guns), which earned five noms, and Denys Arcand's "L'Age des tenebres" (Days of Darkness), with four.
Both Quebec-made movies will compete in the best film category.
In contrast with recent years, English-language Canadian films will grab the limelight at this year's Genies.
"We do like to see the pendulum swinging back, with greater profile going to English Canadian films, while recognizing a number of strong French films," Sara Morton, CEO of Genies organizer the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, said Monday.
Another Quebec movie likely to figure in the Genie competition is Patrick Huard's "Les 3 petits cochons" (The 3 Little Pigs), which earned Claude Legault a best actor nom and Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge a supporting actor berth.
David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises", a portrait of a ruthless killer tied to an organized crime family, and Roger Spottiswoode's "Shake Hands With the Devil", a biopic of former Canadian Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire and his ill-fated U.N. mission in Rwanda, each snagged 12 nominations to lead the field.
Cronenberg and Spottiswoode will see their dramas compete in the best film and director competitions, as well as in a host of craft categories.
"Devil" lead Roy Dupuis will go up against Viggo Mortensen of "Promises" for best actor.
In the best actress competition, Julie Christie continues her awards-season success with a Genie nomination for "Away From Her", in which she plays a woman with Alzheimer's disease.
"Away From Her" earned seven Genie noms, including for one for best film and a director nomination for Sarah Polley.
Contending with Christie for best actress will be two indie darlings: Ellen Page, for Bruce McDonald's "The Tracey Fragments", and Molly Parker, for "Who Loves the Sun", directed by her husband Matt Bissonnette.
Danny Glover, German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl and British playwright Steve Knight also were named Monday in the list of Genie nominees, as organizers encourage interest in Canadian films that often go unnoticed at the domestic boxoffice.
Other multiple nominees in the Genie competition include Stephane Lafleur's "Continental, un film sans fusil" (Continental, A Film Without Guns), which earned five noms, and Denys Arcand's "L'Age des tenebres" (Days of Darkness), with four.
Both Quebec-made movies will compete in the best film category.
In contrast with recent years, English-language Canadian films will grab the limelight at this year's Genies.
"We do like to see the pendulum swinging back, with greater profile going to English Canadian films, while recognizing a number of strong French films," Sara Morton, CEO of Genies organizer the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, said Monday.
Another Quebec movie likely to figure in the Genie competition is Patrick Huard's "Les 3 petits cochons" (The 3 Little Pigs), which earned Claude Legault a best actor nom and Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge a supporting actor berth.
- 1/29/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Canadian distributor Christal Films said Friday that it will release its first three DVD titles nationwide in September, kicking off Tuesday with Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner "The Wind That Shakes the Barley."
The Montreal-based distributor ended its partnership in English-speaking Canada with rivals Lionsgate and Maple Pictures in June in order to distribute its own films via a new office in Toronto.
In addition to Loach's latest, Christal's September releases are Matt Bissonnette's "Who Loves the Sun" (Sept. 11) and Christopher Smith's horror comedy "Severance" (Sept. 18).
The Montreal-based distributor ended its partnership in English-speaking Canada with rivals Lionsgate and Maple Pictures in June in order to distribute its own films via a new office in Toronto.
In addition to Loach's latest, Christal's September releases are Matt Bissonnette's "Who Loves the Sun" (Sept. 11) and Christopher Smith's horror comedy "Severance" (Sept. 18).
Occupation 101, directed by brothrs Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, was the recepient of the Golden Palm Award at the 7th annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival, which concluded Sunday. The documentary about the U.S. government's involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, also took the prize for best editing.
The awards were handed out at the gala awards ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in honor of the Hearts of Hope Foundation.
Molly Parker was named best actress for her role in writer/director Matt Bissonnette's Who Loves the Sun, while the best actor award went to Steven R. McQueen for Club Soda, directed by Paul Carafortes. Soda also won the audience choice award for best short.
R. L. Hooker was honored as best director for his short film The Knife Grinder's Tale. The prize for best producer went to director/producer Michael Feifer for Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck, a horror film based on the true mass murder that took place in 1966. Massacre also won the Audience Choice Award for best feature.
The awards were handed out at the gala awards ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in honor of the Hearts of Hope Foundation.
Molly Parker was named best actress for her role in writer/director Matt Bissonnette's Who Loves the Sun, while the best actor award went to Steven R. McQueen for Club Soda, directed by Paul Carafortes. Soda also won the audience choice award for best short.
R. L. Hooker was honored as best director for his short film The Knife Grinder's Tale. The prize for best producer went to director/producer Michael Feifer for Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck, a horror film based on the true mass murder that took place in 1966. Massacre also won the Audience Choice Award for best feature.
- 4/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival
A Montreal movie from beginning to end and proud of it, "Looking for Leonard" is a low-budget noir looker, written and directed by Canadians Matt Bissonnette and Steven Clark. Accidental killings, hidden treasure, life on the streets, this film has a metaphorical mission that is aptly alluded to in the title.
Finding a sizable audience is the real trick, however, with projects competing for Bohemian audiences everywhere you look. From the performances and wry dialogue to the sets and cinematography, "Looking" is a film with a lot of things going for it.
Canadian actress Kim Huffman as Jo longs to just once see Montrealer Leonard Cohen. As if to grant her wish for our pleasure, the film occasionally inserts silent footage of novelist Cohen, from public appearances to more intimate material. Meanwhile, with the help of Mac McCaughan's score, one easily gets into Jo's and the film's bored-but-expectant mood as we learn she is one of a successful three-person stickup team and is hardly leading a fulfilling existence.
Jo's partners are tough-talking, TV-addicted amateurs Ted (Ben Rainer), also her boyfriend, and his brother Johnny (Darcy Belsher). Determined to move up to robbing banks, which Jo bluntly tries to talk them out of, the brothers leave her alone for a weekend and she meets a just-arrived Czech computer programmer, Luka (Joel Bissonnette), at the store where she's shoplifting seemingly out of boredom.
They have chemistry, with his upright but hapless character fatefully falling in love. Making out at her place, they're surprised by Johnny. A vicious fight starts and Jo hits Johnny with an ashtray. He dies and she sends Luka away.
Luka dumbly leaves his wallet behind, and she self-defensively tells the police he was the killer. Drunk and a wanted man, Luka hits the streets, where he hides in the shadows with opinionated urban scarecrow Chevy (the late Justin Pierce of "Kids" in his final role). Jo lies to Ted and confides with nice girl Monica (Molly Parker) in some of the film's best scenes. Eventually, Jo decides to leave town with a stash of cash, and her fondness for reading Cohen helps Ted uncover her duplicity. Heading for tragedy, the film instead agreeably comes in for a happy landing.
LOOKING FOR LEONARD
Frustrated Films
Boneyard Film Co.
Credits:
Screenwriters-directors: Matt Bissonnette, Steven Clark
Producer: Sylvia Wilson
Executive producers: Lynne Stopkewich, Jessica Fraser, Dean English, Molly Parker
Director of photography: Brian Pearson
Production designer: Patricia Christie
Editors: Annie Ilkow, Andrew Kowalchuk, Michael Dowse
Costume designer: Janine Metcalfe
Music: Mac McCaughan
Cast:
Jo: Kim Huffman
Ted: Ben Rainer
Johnny: Darcy Belsher
Luka: Joel Bissonnette
Monica: Molly Parker
Chevy: Justin Pierce
Running time -- 87 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A Montreal movie from beginning to end and proud of it, "Looking for Leonard" is a low-budget noir looker, written and directed by Canadians Matt Bissonnette and Steven Clark. Accidental killings, hidden treasure, life on the streets, this film has a metaphorical mission that is aptly alluded to in the title.
Finding a sizable audience is the real trick, however, with projects competing for Bohemian audiences everywhere you look. From the performances and wry dialogue to the sets and cinematography, "Looking" is a film with a lot of things going for it.
Canadian actress Kim Huffman as Jo longs to just once see Montrealer Leonard Cohen. As if to grant her wish for our pleasure, the film occasionally inserts silent footage of novelist Cohen, from public appearances to more intimate material. Meanwhile, with the help of Mac McCaughan's score, one easily gets into Jo's and the film's bored-but-expectant mood as we learn she is one of a successful three-person stickup team and is hardly leading a fulfilling existence.
Jo's partners are tough-talking, TV-addicted amateurs Ted (Ben Rainer), also her boyfriend, and his brother Johnny (Darcy Belsher). Determined to move up to robbing banks, which Jo bluntly tries to talk them out of, the brothers leave her alone for a weekend and she meets a just-arrived Czech computer programmer, Luka (Joel Bissonnette), at the store where she's shoplifting seemingly out of boredom.
They have chemistry, with his upright but hapless character fatefully falling in love. Making out at her place, they're surprised by Johnny. A vicious fight starts and Jo hits Johnny with an ashtray. He dies and she sends Luka away.
Luka dumbly leaves his wallet behind, and she self-defensively tells the police he was the killer. Drunk and a wanted man, Luka hits the streets, where he hides in the shadows with opinionated urban scarecrow Chevy (the late Justin Pierce of "Kids" in his final role). Jo lies to Ted and confides with nice girl Monica (Molly Parker) in some of the film's best scenes. Eventually, Jo decides to leave town with a stash of cash, and her fondness for reading Cohen helps Ted uncover her duplicity. Heading for tragedy, the film instead agreeably comes in for a happy landing.
LOOKING FOR LEONARD
Frustrated Films
Boneyard Film Co.
Credits:
Screenwriters-directors: Matt Bissonnette, Steven Clark
Producer: Sylvia Wilson
Executive producers: Lynne Stopkewich, Jessica Fraser, Dean English, Molly Parker
Director of photography: Brian Pearson
Production designer: Patricia Christie
Editors: Annie Ilkow, Andrew Kowalchuk, Michael Dowse
Costume designer: Janine Metcalfe
Music: Mac McCaughan
Cast:
Jo: Kim Huffman
Ted: Ben Rainer
Johnny: Darcy Belsher
Luka: Joel Bissonnette
Monica: Molly Parker
Chevy: Justin Pierce
Running time -- 87 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/16/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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