Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award
Week 2 of the 6th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge (letterboxd.com/bmilot56/list/the-6th-annual-letterboxd-season-challenge/detail/)
This week's challenge is to watch a previously unseen film that has been nominated for the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.
From Wkipedia: "The Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award is presented to the creative team of a film budgeted at less than $500,000."
This week's challenge is to watch a previously unseen film that has been nominated for the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.
From Wkipedia: "The Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award is presented to the creative team of a film budgeted at less than $500,000."
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- DirectorDaniel MyrickEduardo SánchezStarsHeather DonahueMichael C. WilliamsJoshua LeonardThree film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.Winner
- DirectorDavid RikerStarsAnthony RiveraJoseph RiganoMiguel MaldonadoThe stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
- DirectorZeinabu irene DavisStarsJohn Earl JelksMichelle A. BanksNirvana CobbThe life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
- DirectorEric MendelsohnStarsBarbara BarrieBob DishyEdie FalcoA lonely, talented teacher enjoys a flirtation with the (married) principal of the school, who returns her affections but is hampered by his family members. An eclipse enables the teacher and principal to steal several more fleeting moments.
- DirectorScott KingStarsLance BakerNick OffermanJonah BlechmanThis film has nothing to do with Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story. Rather this movie is about the World War II naval base called Treasure Island that was located in San Francisco Bay. Set in mid WWII, two code specialists are hard at work trying to decipher Japanese messages and sending confusing messages to deceive the Japanese. However the film is more about the sexual mores of the day than about the wartime effort. It seems each of the coders has a secret. The first is secretly a polygamist, with one wife being Japanese-American that he keeps hidden away so she won't face detention and the other wife being sickly leaving her unable to go out, as well. The other man can only have sex with his wife if another man is watching his performance.
- DirectorMiguel ArtetaStarsMike WhiteChris WeitzLupe OntiverosAn oddly naive man-child stalks his childhood best friend and tries to reconnect with their past.Winner
- DirectorMia TrachingerStarsPetra TikalovaEdward DratverElizabeth LiebelAfter fleeing a war-torn country, a couple finds that their only means of survival is to don giant bunnysuits to make a living.
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsRadha MitchellMegan MullallyCatherine Lloyd BurnsThe story of a Californian couple expecting a child and their group of friends confronted with the tragedy of a big loss.
- DirectorGreg HarrisonStarsChris FerreiraMackenzie FirgensElizabeth SunAn inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
- DirectorJim McKayStarsKerry WashingtonAnna SimpsonMelissa MartinezFocusing on the bonding between three girls in Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their high school closes down for asbestos removal.
- DirectorMichael PolishStarsJon GriesDaryl HannahGarrett MorrisSunny Holiday, an aspiring singing star, abandons his wife and young baby to set off on a nine-month tour of bleak western towns. He takes off with his road manager in a pink Chrysler in search of their own version of the American Dream: a country loving audience.Winner
- DirectorRosemary RodriguezStarsAna ReederMichael HyattChristopher KadishAlix is taken in by a photographer, Digna, who despite her friends' protests, tries to help Alix piece her life back together and overcome her addictions.
- DirectorPatrik-Ian PolkStarsSeth GilliamDwight EwellAndre JohnsonThe tale of 4 gay African-American friends in L.A: shy, virginal photographer Marcus, outgoing Lothario Hill, hot-to-trot rich kid newbie Dante, and fabulous drag diva Crystal.
- DirectorJoe MaggioStarsClint JordanKirsten RussellAnthony GormanVirgil Bliss is a man obsessed with living a normal life, finding a good job, marrying a decent woman, and building a family of his own. But as a recently paroled career thief with a hair-trigger temper and the social skills of a child, he faces distinct challenges. At the halfway house where he gets his first taste of freedom in over a decade, Virgil meets Manny Alvarez, a fiery miscreant who takes the emotionally naive Virgil under his wing and initiates him in the ways of the world. It's Manny who introduces Virgil to Ruby, an opportunistic junkie with whom Virgil falls instantly in love. As Virgil and Ruby learn to trust each other, they share their concerns: Ruby plans to win back custody of her four-year-old son and Virgil confesses the horrible and senseless crime that landed him in prison. After his release from the halfway house, Virgil finds work as a janitor and moves in with Ruby. But their attempts to adjust as a family come undone with the arrival of the psychotic Manny.
- DirectorRebecca MillerStarsKyra SedgwickParker PoseyFairuza BalkThree women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.Winner
- DirectorEric BylerStarsJacqueline KimEugenia YuanMichael AkiMichael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young tenant.
- DirectorDavid JacobsonStarsJeremy RennerBruce DavisonArtel GreatBiopic about notorious American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, taking place in both the past and the present.
- DirectorBernard RoseStarsDanny HustonPeter WellerLisa EnosUpdate on Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," set in contemporary Hollywood.
- DirectorAlex SmithAndrew J. SmithStarsRyan GoslingDavid MorseClea DuVallA young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
- DirectorTom McCarthyStarsPeter DinklagePatricia ClarksonBobby CannavaleWhen his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.Winner
- DirectorLisa FranceStarsCarlos LeonEric SmithJackie QuinonesThe coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
- DirectorJustin LinStarsParry ShenJason TobinSung KangA group of over-achieving East Asian American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extracurricular criminal activities.
- DirectorPeter HedgesStarsKatie HolmesOliver PlattPatricia ClarksonA wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
- DirectorDeborah KampmeierStarsElisabeth MossStephen Brian JonesAndrew ThamanWhen a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.