Chicago – In this new golden age of animation, the ability to create mood and setting is more accessible than ever. For creator and writer Ron Falzone (with director Julian Grant), a notable death in the 1920s and the movie business associated with it is in their film “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome.”
Now available on most major streaming platforms, “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome” is an animated film with a unique artistic design that evokes both the era and the narrative. The story is about a seminal event in movie and American history … the death of silent film era matinee idol Rudolph Valentino in 1926. A woman named Coriander becomes involved in the circumstance of Valentino’s passing, and brings along her past and present situations to the funeral.
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Photo credit: Grant Guignol & Squeakin’ Yojimbo Pictures
Creator and writer...
Now available on most major streaming platforms, “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome” is an animated film with a unique artistic design that evokes both the era and the narrative. The story is about a seminal event in movie and American history … the death of silent film era matinee idol Rudolph Valentino in 1926. A woman named Coriander becomes involved in the circumstance of Valentino’s passing, and brings along her past and present situations to the funeral.
Available on Most Major Streaming Services
Photo credit: Grant Guignol & Squeakin’ Yojimbo Pictures
Creator and writer...
- 5/17/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In the tradition of Blair Witch, writer-director Julian Grant’s (RoboCop: Prime Directives) found-footage The Cropsey Incident fixes on a group of social justice activists that come face to face with a supernatural urban legend while investigating a series of gruesome ritual murders. Rinska Carrasco Prestinary, Terry Bell, Brandon Galatz and Hannah Phelps star. Based on […]...
- 8/21/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s no secret that crime-fiction authors often wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even though the subject matter, the characters, the settings, it’s all pretty gross and slimy and amoral, most writers still manage to be clear about which side they’re rooting for, the moral of each story is clear. But then there are writers who do away with all that, and those, dear friends, are my favorite types of writers. From the class-a amorality of the works of Cormac McCarthy and Richard Stark down to their modern-day contemporaries like James W. Hall and Anthony Neil Smith and, yes, Jedidiah Ayres. Ayres, like most crime-fiction authors, is one of the nicest guys you’d ever like to meet, but the scumbags who populate his fiction, well, that’s a whole ‘nother story. When I found out that some of Ayres’ fiction was to be adapted into film,...
- 8/24/2012
- by Jedidiah Ayres
- Boomtron
Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way: Director Julian Grant’s 2012 noir hybrid is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. It’s a dizzying collage of different styles built upon a well-worn noir-inspired framework, one that would be particularly underwhelming if presented in a straightforward fashion. What ultimately saves “F*ckload of Scotch Tape” — or, if you prefer, “Flost” — from the simplicity of this well-trodden premise is its tenacity, its willingness to push the envelope. Do all of these thoughts and ideas blend together into one delicious cinematic stew? For the most part, Grant and company handle all of these different tones rather well. Save for a few wonky bits here and there, they pull off this tricky balancing act quite well. Graham Jenkins stars as Benji, a pathetic, self-serving drug addict who reluctantly agrees to kidnap, torment, and torture some kid for a local...
- 7/2/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
If you like your dramas deep, dark, and loaded with unsettling imagery, then writer/director Julian Grant’s upcoming head trip “Flost” is precisely the sort of cinematic pill you need to ingest. The title, in case you were wondering is an acronym for “F*ck Load of Scotch Tape”, which doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, if you know what I mean. Regardless, the film looks pretty incredible. You know, in a Gaspar Noe kind of way. That’s a compliment, by the way. Here’s a quick synopsis to get you started. Benji fights and sings his way through this new musical film noir love letter. Original Score and Music by Kevin Quain. Based on characters by Jed Ayres. “Flost” also stars Graham Jenkins, Louis Lawless, Holland Noel, Hannah Phelps, and Brian Shaw. You can have a look some images from the flick by directing your attention to the space below.
- 5/10/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
by Colleen Wanglund
Written and directed by Julian Grant, The Defiled (2010) tells the story of a world ravaged by a virus that turns people into mindless cannibals. The movie opens with a man (Brian Shaw) stumbling along through a wooded area looking for food. Standing at the edge of a lake he sees a deserted city….and we see his face. He looks like a zombie. We then see him with what appears to be his family—wife, daughter and son—living in an encampment in the woods.
After feeding his family with a questionable corpse (there were biohazard signs where the body was found), he wakes out of a drunken stupor to find them all dead, except the baby that his wife was carrying. The man, visibly distraught, leaves the area with the baby determined to survive. He later saves a woman (Kathleen Lawlor) from her cannibal captors and...
Written and directed by Julian Grant, The Defiled (2010) tells the story of a world ravaged by a virus that turns people into mindless cannibals. The movie opens with a man (Brian Shaw) stumbling along through a wooded area looking for food. Standing at the edge of a lake he sees a deserted city….and we see his face. He looks like a zombie. We then see him with what appears to be his family—wife, daughter and son—living in an encampment in the woods.
After feeding his family with a questionable corpse (there were biohazard signs where the body was found), he wakes out of a drunken stupor to find them all dead, except the baby that his wife was carrying. The man, visibly distraught, leaves the area with the baby determined to survive. He later saves a woman (Kathleen Lawlor) from her cannibal captors and...
- 7/8/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by Julian Grant.
Director/writer: Julian Grant.
The Defiled right away grabs you as being an homage to an earlier time in films, the silent 1920s and before. Julian Grant's latest production is completely in black and white, while the feature is entirely without dialogue. However, the body language speaks volumes as an infected man does his best to ensure a future generation of man-eaters, by protecting his cannibal baby. The result is a slow paced dramatic feature in an apocalyptic world, which deserves greater attention from horror fans.
Director Grant shows his versatility in filmmaking, by acting as the film's principal photographer. The environments shot are mostly dilapidated to show a world in decline and chaos, while the lighting emphasizes zombie facial expressions and infrequent explosions. As well, there are long shots to show a roving militia and close interior shots,...
Director/writer: Julian Grant.
The Defiled right away grabs you as being an homage to an earlier time in films, the silent 1920s and before. Julian Grant's latest production is completely in black and white, while the feature is entirely without dialogue. However, the body language speaks volumes as an infected man does his best to ensure a future generation of man-eaters, by protecting his cannibal baby. The result is a slow paced dramatic feature in an apocalyptic world, which deserves greater attention from horror fans.
Director Grant shows his versatility in filmmaking, by acting as the film's principal photographer. The environments shot are mostly dilapidated to show a world in decline and chaos, while the lighting emphasizes zombie facial expressions and infrequent explosions. As well, there are long shots to show a roving militia and close interior shots,...
- 4/2/2011
- by Remove28DaysLaterAnalysisThis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
It took a while, but finally the complete and final 2010 Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago has been announced. Over 40 movies in every category from feature film to shorts, documentaries, dramas (such as Bilal’s Stand pictured), comedies and everything else in between. All the films will be screened at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago located at 164 N. State St in the heart of downtown Chicago.
Opening night is Friday August 6th and the festival continues throughout the month until Thursday Sept. 2 with a special advance screening of Tanya Hamilton’s Night Captures Us with Ms. Hamilton present. Of course I will be there too on most nights, so if you ever had the desire to punch me out for any of my articles on S & A now here’s your chance. (Not that I encourage it though…)
The complete list below:
The Gene Siskel Film Center welcomes...
Opening night is Friday August 6th and the festival continues throughout the month until Thursday Sept. 2 with a special advance screening of Tanya Hamilton’s Night Captures Us with Ms. Hamilton present. Of course I will be there too on most nights, so if you ever had the desire to punch me out for any of my articles on S & A now here’s your chance. (Not that I encourage it though…)
The complete list below:
The Gene Siskel Film Center welcomes...
- 7/6/2010
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Fans of cult horror will be immediately drawn to the retro stylings of The Defiled, a black & white art-film by Julian Grant. It's really got a fantastic look that sits somewhere between and Night of the Living Dead and silent cinema. Oh, and apparently the whole film contains just one line of dialogue. At 100 minutes that's a lot of silence, but I'm still intrigued.
Synopsis:
After a devastating global pandemic which turns infected people rabid, a man and woman must find shelter for a new born baby. They are besieged by inhabitants of this world-gone-wild and must make the ultimate sacrifice to save the child.
The defiled stars Brian Shaw, Kathleen Lawlor, Alden Moore, Graham Jenkins, Angela Zagone, Alir Limaj and Aaron Sjoholm.
Trailer after the break.
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Synopsis:
After a devastating global pandemic which turns infected people rabid, a man and woman must find shelter for a new born baby. They are besieged by inhabitants of this world-gone-wild and must make the ultimate sacrifice to save the child.
The defiled stars Brian Shaw, Kathleen Lawlor, Alden Moore, Graham Jenkins, Angela Zagone, Alir Limaj and Aaron Sjoholm.
Trailer after the break.
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- 2/8/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Filmmaker Julian Grant, who is a tenure-track film professor at Columbia College, Chicago, is making a "fiercely independent" ultra-low-budget, dialogue-less horror film entitled The Defiled, and he's reporting a very detailed blow-by-blow of its production on his blog. He describes the film as " a story of love and survival against a horror that is cataclysmic and...entirely possible." Grant is shooting on the Canon HV20 with a cine-adapter and Nikon 50mm lens. He's in the middle of week two, so if you'd like to follow from his production, head over there now. You can find footage tests, make-up tests, test poster designs, a crew breakdown and more.
- 7/8/2009
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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