Austin — An emotionally isolated teen deals with his father's death in The Wilderness of James, a sure-footed debut by Michael James Johnson. Familiar subject matter is only a slight handicap for the well-acted, sensitive coming-of-age tale, which is sure to earn respect on the fest circuit and beyond. As he did in last year's A Birder's Guide to Everything, Kodi Smit-McPhee plays a young man whose passion for naturalism is a way of maintaining connection with a dead parent. This time around, the loved one is a father who spoke of "wilderness" in terms
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- 3/10/2014
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kids. Such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape or Reservoir Dogs before it, and such as Winter’s Bone, Blue Valentine and Fruitvale Station after it, Larry Clark & Harmony Korine’s seminal film is forever connected in “spirit” to the lieu where it received its secret midnight premiere screening in 1995. The Sundance Film Festival might be known as the birthplace of U.S indie filmmaking innovation, avant-gardism, a larger definition of the low budgeted film response to Hollywood in not only narrative but in the non-fiction form, but it is a festival made strong by its renewal and familiarity. That close acquaintanceness exists in Kids‘ starlets Rosario Dawson and Chloë Sevigny filmography/career path trajectory and connection to Park City (both have several indie films slated for ’14 – of which I’ve included in our predictions list) and it is that “familiarity” that is visibly noticeable in how I map out my annual predictions list.
- 11/18/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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