Chicago – The wider range of films critics see during a single year, the less susceptible they are to the inevitable onslaught of expensive awards campaigns. Just because a studio can bark the loudest doesn’t mean its product has any bite. The majority of Oscar bait I’ve witnessed during the final months of 2012 have been wildly overrated behemoths weighed down in self-importance and executed with all the calculated precision of a undergrad aiming to score an A on the final. What’s lacking from many of these pictures is the spontaneity and imagination of true artistry, and that is precisely what the films on this list have in spades. From the most criminally overlooked blockbusters to the most invaluable indie gems available online, here are the Top Ten Most Overlooked Films of 2012.
10. “Cloud Atlas”
Cloud Atlas
I’ll be the first to admit that Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski...
10. “Cloud Atlas”
Cloud Atlas
I’ll be the first to admit that Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski...
- 12/26/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Right now on Kentucker Audley’s No Budge website, it’s Frank V. Ross week. If that name elicits a blank response, it’s not an uncommon reaction. Though Chicago-based Ross is one of the original class of mumblecore directors, he never received the attention that was given to so many of his Diy peers, such as Andrew Bujalski, the Duplass brothers or Joe Swanberg (a fellow Chicagoan with whom Ross has collaborated numerous times). Nevertheless, his recent films Present Company (2008) and Audrey the Trainwreck (2010) have gained him a number of champions within the indie community, and those two films have been featured this week on No Budge, along with Tiger Tail in Blue, his sixth feature, which makes its debut online tonight on the site.
A low-key naturalistic drama, Tiger Tail focuses on a recently married couple, Chris (Ross himself), a writer who waits tables at night, and Melody...
A low-key naturalistic drama, Tiger Tail focuses on a recently married couple, Chris (Ross himself), a writer who waits tables at night, and Melody...
- 7/11/2012
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
SXSW Review
Audrey the Trainwreck
Director: Frank V Ross
World Premiere
Emerging Visions
85 minutes
Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010
Synopsis
For Ron Hogan, life is fine… not great, not good, just… fine, and on the verge of retiring any sort of dream he’s harbored of a life less ordinary. Pushing thirty and working a thankless office job, internet dating is one more routine in Ron Hogan’s well-ordered life. God knows his lonely roommate and lonelier co-workers have tried, but not even a dart to the back of the head can shake him out of his funk. Until he meets Stacy, a fellow working stiff who disarms him by speaking the language of his loneliest moments. Featuring a score by acclaimed jazz composer John Medeski, Audrey the Trainwreck is Frank V. Ross’s 5th feature film, an exploration of what might happen if one manÕs silent desperation got a little bit louder.
Audrey the Trainwreck
Director: Frank V Ross
World Premiere
Emerging Visions
85 minutes
Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010
Synopsis
For Ron Hogan, life is fine… not great, not good, just… fine, and on the verge of retiring any sort of dream he’s harbored of a life less ordinary. Pushing thirty and working a thankless office job, internet dating is one more routine in Ron Hogan’s well-ordered life. God knows his lonely roommate and lonelier co-workers have tried, but not even a dart to the back of the head can shake him out of his funk. Until he meets Stacy, a fellow working stiff who disarms him by speaking the language of his loneliest moments. Featuring a score by acclaimed jazz composer John Medeski, Audrey the Trainwreck is Frank V. Ross’s 5th feature film, an exploration of what might happen if one manÕs silent desperation got a little bit louder.
- 3/31/2010
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
SXSW 2010 – Day Four
Hurry up and wait … for MacGruber starring Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe.
Today was the random one you get at every festival. You just don’t know what you’re going to see. Some early screenings on Friday suddenly left me with only one thought – get MacGruber.
Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010
I went to the Fast Pass express lane at 8:45 a.m. to wait in line, so I could then wait in a shorter line. It opened at 10 and I was able to get my pass no problem.
Then it was off to see Audrey the Trainwreck.
Synopsis
For Ron Hogan, life is fine… not great, not good, just… fine, and on the verge of retiring any sort of dream heÕs harbored of a life less ordinary. Pushing thirty and working a thankless office job, internet dating is one more routine in Ron Hogan’s well-ordered life.
Hurry up and wait … for MacGruber starring Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe.
Today was the random one you get at every festival. You just don’t know what you’re going to see. Some early screenings on Friday suddenly left me with only one thought – get MacGruber.
Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010
I went to the Fast Pass express lane at 8:45 a.m. to wait in line, so I could then wait in a shorter line. It opened at 10 and I was able to get my pass no problem.
Then it was off to see Audrey the Trainwreck.
Synopsis
For Ron Hogan, life is fine… not great, not good, just… fine, and on the verge of retiring any sort of dream heÕs harbored of a life less ordinary. Pushing thirty and working a thankless office job, internet dating is one more routine in Ron Hogan’s well-ordered life.
- 3/18/2010
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
I've been in New York for a grand total of about two weeks in the last month and a half, so I missed most of the press screenings for New Directors/New Films, the annual co-production of MoMA and the Film Society at Lincoln Center, which opened last night. We'll be publishing a recap of the full festival from Brandon Harris tomorrow, but I wanted to drop some notes on the one film for which I did have a chance to attend a press screening, Harmony & Me. Written and directed by Bob Byington (his Rso: Registered Sex Offender premiered at SXSW last year and then played around the country on the Range Life tour) and edited by Frank V. Ross (Hohokam, Present Company), the film was shot in Austin and features a number of faces that will be familiar to devotees of SXSW cinema and its descendants: Justin Rice as Harmony,...
- 3/26/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
A few bits of news have been trickling in this afternoon on some upcoming events: It's Lebowski Fest this weekend in Louisville, Kentucky. Something I would never, ever go to myself, but sort of appreciate on the grounds that there should be more batshit insane social events structured around films which didn't make a whole lot of money. More info here; it also looks like Whitney is live-Twittering. Frank V. Ross' Present Company is premiering tomorrow night at my much-beloved <a href="http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/s ...
- 7/11/2008
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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