Year: 2008
Directors: Matthew Hysell
Writers: Matthew Hysell
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Review by: Dr. Nathan
Rating: 8 out of 10
Dream A Little Dream Of Me…
Dr Nathan has a saying – "reason rationalizes reality" – but the explanation for this extraordinary movie came to me in a dream: it’s all a dream. Sound enigmatic? Wait until you see Marin Blue and you’ll know what I mean.
What we have here from writer/director Matthew Hysell is a nifty little non-story about Jim Reed and Marin Blue (played by Cory Knauf and Najarra Townsend), two good-looking, hair-stroking kids who manage to find themselves, maybe, in a non-sequitor world adjacent to Los Angeles. Jim has been committed to a youth mental facility and Marin works there, watching the inmates over closed circuit TV and singing sad ditties over the loudspeaker. When this flick started I thought I might be watching an update of Sam Fuller’s classic,...
Directors: Matthew Hysell
Writers: Matthew Hysell
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Dr. Nathan
Rating: 8 out of 10
Dream A Little Dream Of Me…
Dr Nathan has a saying – "reason rationalizes reality" – but the explanation for this extraordinary movie came to me in a dream: it’s all a dream. Sound enigmatic? Wait until you see Marin Blue and you’ll know what I mean.
What we have here from writer/director Matthew Hysell is a nifty little non-story about Jim Reed and Marin Blue (played by Cory Knauf and Najarra Townsend), two good-looking, hair-stroking kids who manage to find themselves, maybe, in a non-sequitor world adjacent to Los Angeles. Jim has been committed to a youth mental facility and Marin works there, watching the inmates over closed circuit TV and singing sad ditties over the loudspeaker. When this flick started I thought I might be watching an update of Sam Fuller’s classic,...
- 3/16/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Berlin -- Richard Loncraine's "My One and Only," a '50s-era comedy starring Renee Zellweger and Kevin Bacon, was squeezed into the competition lineup for this year's Berlin International Film Festival, barely a week before the event kicks off.
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
- 1/27/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cologne, Germany -- The Berlinale's avant-garde sidebar Forum has completed its lineup, adding new political documentaries from the likes of Hans-Christian Schmid, Simone Bitton and Thomas Heise.
Bitton follows up her Sundance award winner "Wall" (2004) with another documentary focused on the conflict in the Middle East. "Rachel" takes up the story of U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in 2003 while trying to prevent the destruction of houses in the Gaza Strip.
Schmid, whose drama "Storm" will screen in competition in Berlin, has a Forum entry with the doc "The Wonderful Life of Laundry," a look at the lives of Polish workers who launder the dirty linen trucked across the border from Berlin luxury hotels. Heise's new documentary, "Material" is also set in Berlin and features previously unreleased footage of events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Other nonfiction entries at the 2009 Forum include Thai documentary "Citizen Juling,...
Bitton follows up her Sundance award winner "Wall" (2004) with another documentary focused on the conflict in the Middle East. "Rachel" takes up the story of U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in 2003 while trying to prevent the destruction of houses in the Gaza Strip.
Schmid, whose drama "Storm" will screen in competition in Berlin, has a Forum entry with the doc "The Wonderful Life of Laundry," a look at the lives of Polish workers who launder the dirty linen trucked across the border from Berlin luxury hotels. Heise's new documentary, "Material" is also set in Berlin and features previously unreleased footage of events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Other nonfiction entries at the 2009 Forum include Thai documentary "Citizen Juling,...
- 1/19/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Playing in this year's Forum section at Berlinale are a few American indy films, one of them being Matthew Hysell's Marin Blue which as I pointed out in the article title looks nothing short of stunning, in fact I'm salivating over the footage right now. According to the Berline press release: "Director Matthew Hysell surrounds his characters with a puzzling silence that alludes to a traumatic past. In the perplexing void of Los Angeles’s suburban architecture, the ruins of real estate speculation, they seek out temporary housing, and wait for their memories to return." You get a feel for those beautiful landscape and architectural shots in the trailer, and really, this is something you don't want to miss.
Marin and Jim are two outsiders, drawn together by a shared history unknown even to them. Marin spends her days at a youth mental facility singing over a loudspeaker to patients.
Marin and Jim are two outsiders, drawn together by a shared history unknown even to them. Marin spends her days at a youth mental facility singing over a loudspeaker to patients.
- 1/9/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Cologne, Germany -- Experimental cinema from the U.S., Korea and the Netherlands will take center stage at this year's Berlinale Forum, the Berlin sidebar devoted to avant-garde filmmaking.
Bradley Rust Gray, whose last feature, 2003's "Salt," won the Caligari prize for best film in the Forum, returns with "The Exploding Girl," a low-key drama about two friends moving closer to becoming lovers.
"Beeswax," the latest laconic entry from "Funny Ha Ha" director Andrew Bujalski will have its world premiere at the Forum, as will "Marin Blue," Matthew Hysell's directorial debut about an L.A. youth mental facility.
So Yong Kim, a co-producer on Gray's "The Exploding Girl," also made the Forum cut with his latest film as a director, "Treeless Mountain," one of several Korean films picked for the official lineup. Gray acted as a producer on the drama, which already picked up a Netpac Award at October's Pusan Film Festival.
Bradley Rust Gray, whose last feature, 2003's "Salt," won the Caligari prize for best film in the Forum, returns with "The Exploding Girl," a low-key drama about two friends moving closer to becoming lovers.
"Beeswax," the latest laconic entry from "Funny Ha Ha" director Andrew Bujalski will have its world premiere at the Forum, as will "Marin Blue," Matthew Hysell's directorial debut about an L.A. youth mental facility.
So Yong Kim, a co-producer on Gray's "The Exploding Girl," also made the Forum cut with his latest film as a director, "Treeless Mountain," one of several Korean films picked for the official lineup. Gray acted as a producer on the drama, which already picked up a Netpac Award at October's Pusan Film Festival.
- 1/8/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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