"I imagine those who had written off Cam Archer as yet another Gus Van Sant acolyte after seeing his debut, Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006), will be in for a shock when confronted with his latest film, Shit Year (2011), a mature work with a distinct, idiosyncratic approach to difficult questions." Travis Jeppesen for Artforum: "The film is ostensibly about Colleen West (Ellen Barkin), a middle-aged actress retiring from the industry and settling into a life of intensive self-isolation in a forest cabin. This deceptively simple premise serves as a convincing departure point for a prolonged meditation on solitude."
Archer "appears to have watched John Cassavetes's Opening Night, about a middle-aged actress, and rather more than a few avant-garde films as well," suggests Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "Shot in handsome, often vividly contrasting black and white, [Shit Year] weighs in as an attempt at poetic expressionism, a bid to...
Archer "appears to have watched John Cassavetes's Opening Night, about a middle-aged actress, and rather more than a few avant-garde films as well," suggests Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "Shot in handsome, often vividly contrasting black and white, [Shit Year] weighs in as an attempt at poetic expressionism, a bid to...
- 9/21/2011
- MUBI
This post was originally published when Shit Year premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. The film opens today at the IFC Center.
It is both accurate and reductive to call Cam Archer’s Shit Year, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Director’s Fortnight section, the story of a retiring actress grappling with the emotions produced by her move away from the Hollywood spotlight. Of course, on narrative terms, that is what it’s about. Ellen Barkin plays the actress, who has just given her final talk-show interview, moved to a cabin in the woods, and now spends her days avoiding her neighbors and flashing back to a brief affair she had with a younger actor (Luke Grimes) on the set of her last film. In an eerily composed performance, Barkin projects the steely emotional control of a woman determined not to descend into...
It is both accurate and reductive to call Cam Archer’s Shit Year, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Director’s Fortnight section, the story of a retiring actress grappling with the emotions produced by her move away from the Hollywood spotlight. Of course, on narrative terms, that is what it’s about. Ellen Barkin plays the actress, who has just given her final talk-show interview, moved to a cabin in the woods, and now spends her days avoiding her neighbors and flashing back to a brief affair she had with a younger actor (Luke Grimes) on the set of her last film. In an eerily composed performance, Barkin projects the steely emotional control of a woman determined not to descend into...
- 9/19/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Monsters and Critics has five (5) CDs for Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark to give away! Watch the video premiere of .Rise Above 1. by Reeve Carney ft. Bono and The Edge. Check out the just released video for .Rise Above 1. by Reeve Carney, featuring U2.s Bono and The Edge, from the Broadway production Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. The video, directed by Aaron Platt and Joseph Toma, was shot in New York City and gives fans a peek into the making of the Broadway musical. .Rise Above 1. was produced by Alex Da Kid and is available on the album, Music from Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, available on Amazon and iTunes now!
- 8/8/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Kris Allen has premiered a music video for new single "The Truth". Releasing a first look at the full version of the clip on VH1, the season eight winner of "American Idol" is seen lying down on a bed under the 110-degree heat of a dry California desert in addition to playing guitar and sitting behind his piano.
25-years-old Kris and his crew has to deal with the trouble brought along by rainstorm when filming for the music video. Speaking to MTV News about the problems, he revealed earlier that the rainstorm has turned the sand into mush and sank many expensive equipment including the piano he is seen playing in the video.
"Apparently, in the desert, when it starts raining the ground just turns into mush," Kris shared on his filming experience at the time. "It started to monsoon, man! It was crazy. It was one of the biggest...
25-years-old Kris and his crew has to deal with the trouble brought along by rainstorm when filming for the music video. Speaking to MTV News about the problems, he revealed earlier that the rainstorm has turned the sand into mush and sank many expensive equipment including the piano he is seen playing in the video.
"Apparently, in the desert, when it starts raining the ground just turns into mush," Kris shared on his filming experience at the time. "It started to monsoon, man! It was crazy. It was one of the biggest...
- 8/18/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Remember Kris Allen from American Idol?! Yes, he is the adorable singer-songwriter who won two seasons ago, and seems to have taken a backseat to his runner-up Adam Lambert. But he reminds us of why we fell in love with his voice the first time around with his new music video for “The Truth.” Directed by cinematographer, Aaron Platt, the video features a cameo from Train lead singer, Pat Monahan, and was shot in the desert in 110 degree heat. You would never know! It looks gorgeous! Check out the video below. mjsbigblog.com truth @ Yahoo! Video...
- 8/17/2010
- Hollyscoop.com
'It's freakin' hot, man!' the singer tells MTV News of 110-degree temps while filming clip for 'The Truth.'
By Jim Cantiello
Kris Allen shooting his music video for "The Truth"
Photo: Jive Records
There's an old Hollywood nugget that warns stars against working with animals and children. After enduring a disastrous day of filming his upcoming music video for "The Truth," Kris Allen might suggest you avoid shooting in the desert too. Twelve days ago, the season-eight "American Idol" champ was forced to pull the plug on his latest shoot, thanks to extreme weather that turned the vast, dry California desert into a wet, sticky mess.
"Apparently, in the desert, when it starts raining the ground just turns into mush," Allen told MTV News on Monday night from the set, where production had resumed. That desert "mush" led to quicksand-like conditions that forced the crew to cut their losses and flee for safety.
By Jim Cantiello
Kris Allen shooting his music video for "The Truth"
Photo: Jive Records
There's an old Hollywood nugget that warns stars against working with animals and children. After enduring a disastrous day of filming his upcoming music video for "The Truth," Kris Allen might suggest you avoid shooting in the desert too. Twelve days ago, the season-eight "American Idol" champ was forced to pull the plug on his latest shoot, thanks to extreme weather that turned the vast, dry California desert into a wet, sticky mess.
"Apparently, in the desert, when it starts raining the ground just turns into mush," Allen told MTV News on Monday night from the set, where production had resumed. That desert "mush" led to quicksand-like conditions that forced the crew to cut their losses and flee for safety.
- 7/27/2010
- MTV Music News
Director: Adam Sherman Writer: Adam Sherman Starring: Mark L. Young, Hanna Hall, Jesse Plemons, Laura Peters, Shiloh Fernandez Presumably sometime in the late 1960s, Victor’s (Mark L. Young) parents (Andie MacDowell and Mark Boone Junior) discovered what they thought was utopia – a far out rural hippie commune founded on the precepts of free love, drug experimentation and freshly grown vegetables. Twenty years later, finding themselves trapped like rats in this no longer utopian cage, the offspring of the free love generation have evolved into bitter and jaded punk rockers. For this next generation, freedom has become unbearably oppressive. Brimming with animosity for their spaced-out and disillusioned parents, these kids will do whatever they can to not follow in their parents’ footsteps; they just can’t shake the promiscuity, but they do turn to harder drugs and darker music. Their chosen soundtrack – The Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Fear, Bad Brains, UK Subs,...
- 5/18/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
This week's indie film focus is on the Andrew Robinson helmed and written drama "April Showers;" an important film based on a true story. Indie Flix distributes the film in limited areas on April 24th. The cast includes Kelly Blatz, Daryl Sabara, Tom Arnold, Ileana Douglas, Janel Parrish and Ellen Woglom. Robinson is a survivor of the Columbine High School tragedy and directs this dramatized retelling of what it was like to be a survivor in the midst of the nation’s largest school shootings. Based largely on actual events, April Showers follows the story of Sean Ryan (Kelly Blatz, Prom Night) as he and fellow survivors attempt to make sense of the horrors they’ve just witnessed and, for Sean, coping with the loss of his friend April (Ellen Woglom, Viva Laughlin). Featuring breathtaking cinematography by Independent Spirit Award Nominee, Aaron Platt (Wild Tigers I’ve Known). See the trailer here.
- 4/13/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
- It comes as no surprise that leading this year’s pack of nominees are Little Miss Sunshine and Half Nelson, but this year’s mix of contenders are a mixed breed coming from films that were showcased a little everywhere – including this year’s Sundance. And the 2007 Independent Spirit nominees are...Feature (Award given to the Producer)"American Gun," Ted Kroeber, producer"The Dead Girl," Tom Rosenberg, Henry Winterstern, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Eric Karten, Kevin Turen, producers"Half Nelson," Jamie Patricof, Alex Orlovsky, Lynette Howell, Anna Boden, Rosanne Korenberg, producers"Little Miss Sunshine," Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, producers"Pan's Labyrinth," Bertha Navarro, Alfonso Cuaron, Frida Torresblanco, Alvaro Augustin, Guillermo Del Toro, producersFIRST Feature (Award given to the director and producer)"Day Night Day Night," Julia Loktev, director; Julia Loktev, Melanie Judd, Jessica Levin, producers"Man Push Cart," Ramin Bahrani, director; Ramin Bahrani,
- 11/29/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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