Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond The Pines remains among my favorite unreleased movies since I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, it’s testament to the movie’s satisfying complexity that these three video clips don’t really convey the emotional wallop that the film packs.Here’s the other thing: I can’t really set these videos up properly without some major spoilers, so I would urge you not to write off the movie if these three excerpts don’t exactly move you.
Suffice it to say, the first two clips feature appear, in chronological order in the first third of the movie, where motorcycle stunt driver Luke (Ryan Gosling) learns that he fathered a child by Romina (Eva Mendes) and decides that he doesn’t want to be the deadbeat dad that he had as a kid. Alas, his decision to be a responsible parent involves robbing banks to support his kid, which is not exactly Brady Bunch territory, but Cianfrance uses Luke’s storyline to set up a movie that has some very smart things to say about morality and legacy.
Luke and Romina’s story is intertwined with the narrative arc of police officer Avery Cross, played by Bradley Cooper. In the third and final clip, he attempts to inform his superior of corruption in the department and doesn’t exactly meet with a willing audience.
The movie only gets more interesting and gripping from there. The Place Beyond The Pines opens on March 29.
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Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond The Pines remains among my favorite unreleased movies since I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, it’s testament to the movie’s satisfying complexity that these three video clips don’t really convey the emotional wallop that the film packs.Here’s the other thing: I can’t really set these videos up properly without some major spoilers, so I would urge you not to write off the movie if these three excerpts don’t exactly move you.
Suffice it to say, the first two clips feature appear, in chronological order in the first third of the movie, where motorcycle stunt driver Luke (Ryan Gosling) learns that he fathered a child by Romina (Eva Mendes) and decides that he doesn’t want to be the deadbeat dad that he had as a kid. Alas, his decision to be a responsible parent involves robbing banks to support his kid, which is not exactly Brady Bunch territory, but Cianfrance uses Luke’s storyline to set up a movie that has some very smart things to say about morality and legacy.
Luke and Romina’s story is intertwined with the narrative arc of police officer Avery Cross, played by Bradley Cooper. In the third and final clip, he attempts to inform his superior of corruption in the department and doesn’t exactly meet with a willing audience.
The movie only gets more interesting and gripping from there. The Place Beyond The Pines opens on March 29.
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Snoop Dogg unveiled a new name and a new film at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and now plans are firming up for its theatrical roll out. The documentary, Reincarnated, which follows the hip hop star’s evolution to a reggae singer, will bow in select cities March 15th.
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Directed by Andy Capper, Reincarnated will open in theaters in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Miami, Chicago and Atlanta. VICE Films and Snoopadelic Films will release the doc, according to THR.
In Toronto in September, Snoop Dogg, whose actual name is Calvin Broadus, talked about transitioning to his new raggae-centered alter-ego, “Snoop Lion,” though he was emphatic that “Dogg” was alive and well. “”I’m Snoop Motherfuckin’ Dogg till the day I die,” he said. “But at the same time when I’m making my reggae music I’m in the light of the Lion.”
Reincarnated follows Snoop’s journey to the birthplace of reggae, Trench Town, Jamaica, which once ground zero for Bob Marle, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. In the doc, Snoop recalls his beginnings in Long Beach, CA to international fame and his transition to “Snoop Lion.”
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Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes and Bradley Cooper are at the center of Focus Features’ newest poster for its upcoming The Place Beyond the Pines by director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine. The film, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, revolves around a motorcycle stunt rider who turns to bank robbing in order to provide for his newborn child.
[Related: The Principals Behind The Pines: Gosling and Cianfrance On Robbing Banks, Fatherhood, Face Tattoos and More AND WATCH: Ryan Gosling Sheds A Manly Tear In 'The Place Beyond The Pines Trailer]
The trio front a gloomy sky and a buffed Gosling riding a motorcycle against a setting sun as he rides passed – alas – a bank. Also starring Ray Liotta, Rose Byrne, Dane DeHaan and Ben Mendelsohn Focus will release the film Stateside in late March.
Official synopsis follows:
The daring new film from director of Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines is a sweeping emotional drama powerfully exploring the unbreakable bond between fathers and sons. Luke (Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling) is in constant motion, a high-wire motorcycle stunt performer who travels from town to town with the carnival. Passing through Schenectady in upstate New York, he tries to reconnect with a former lover, Romina (Eva Mendes), only to learn that she has in his absence given birth to their son Jason. Luke resolves to forsake life on the road and to provide for his newfound family, taking a job as a car mechanic with Robin (Ben Mendelsohn). Robin soon discovers Luke’s special talents, and proposes to partner with him in a string of spectacular bank robberies. But it is only a matter of time before Luke
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Full Story »“If you ride like lightning, you’re going to crash like thunder,” sounds like something Dennis Hopper would have said in the 1970s (and, actually, the 80s, too), but the always-compelling Ben Mendelsohn gets the line in Derek Cianfrance’sThe Place Beyond The Pines. Although you only hear Mendelsohn deliver it in voiceover in this trailer for the feature, it’s a warning he delivers to his partner-in-crime motorcycle stuntman-turned-bank robber Ryan Gosling in the film.
As you can piece together from the clip below (which comes via Yahoo!), Gosling turns outlaw to support the surprise son he finds out he has (thanks to a fling with Eva Mendes’ character) and ends up on a collision course with a cop played by Bradley Cooper. (That tear Baby Goose sheds in the church is over his little boy, who’s played by a kid named Anthony Pizza, believe it or not.) But don’t be like the guy in Yahoo! comments section who thinks the trailer gives away the whole movie. The Place Beyond the Pines is way more complex than a heist flick. As the tag line in the trailer reads: “One moment defines your life. One decision becomes your legacy.”
I’m curious to see whether Cianfrance has re-edited the film since I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival. I thought the way he structured the movie was daring and inspired, if a bit unwieldy in places, but there was some grumbling among the crowd that the movie’s three interlocking stories didn’t fit together so well. The movie opens theatrically March 20.
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It appears that Selena Gomez is dipping into another Mickey-less role, solidifying her catapult into adulthood. Gomez is starring with Ethan Hawke in a film titled Getaway. A photo hit the internet today with the hoodied (with baseball cap) former child-star in the front seat of a vehicle with Hawke in the pic.
Also starring Jon Voight (that’s an interesting one!), Paul Freeman and Bruce Payne, the film is an Action-Crime feature that is set for release next August. OnTheFlix said it is “about a retired race car driver who tries to track down his kidnapped wife with the help of a younger female computer hacker.” Gomez mentioned that she’s filming the pic in Bulgaria.
Speaking about another film she recently completed, Spring Breakers, at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Gomez said she is eager to move on to more mature roles.
When my series ended, I was invited to do a couple of films,” said the former Wizards of Waverly Place star in Toronto. “I thought the independent film route would be best for me…The biggest challenge is that I have a younger generation of fans who follow my music, shows and clothing line.”
Continuing about her fans she added: “Everything I do is for them and this may not be so accessible to them. But the other side is that people put you in a box and it is a challenge for me because some may not take me seriously because of the brand I have – that I’m fortunate to have – but it’s also about doing things that I just want to do for me.”
Starring James Franco and Vanessa Hudgens, that Harmony Korine-directed Spring Breakers revolves around several college girls who…
Full Story »Fans of Jared Leto’s band Thirty Seconds to Mars like to refer to themselves as family, but ‘apostles’ might be a better term. Thanks to their fervent support, Artifact, the Leto-directed (under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins) film about the band’s lengthy legal battle with its record label EMI, is making some noise on the indie circuit.
In September, Artifact won the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Documentary Award in September, and earlier this month it was nominated for an IFP Gotham Audience Award even though the film didn’t premiere in the U.S. until Thursday night at the DOC NYC festival in New York City.
The Echelon — the name that Leto has bestowed upon his band’s fan base — were out in force there, too, braving frigid temperatures and a Nor’Easter-snarled New York to gather by the dozens at the School of Visual Arts in Chelsea for the screening and a glimpse of their idol. A spokeswoman for DOC NYC says that more than 500 people attended the two screenings of the documentary that were held on Thursday.
Instead of the screaming hordes you might battle at a Justin Bieber appearance, however, the mostly female and surprisingly middle-aged crowd that gathered at the 6 p.m. screening of Artifact was well behaved and fairly quiet when it came to their reverence. (Somehow, they’d even organized a canned-food drive with local charity City Harvest to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy.)
Photographer Jolene McMeans had traveled from Eugene, Ore. to see the film. ”I barely made it last night,” she told Movieline. Johana Ruano, who sat next to her and carried a bouquet of flowers, said that she had made it in from Miami despite having her first flight…
Full Story »Kristen Stewart has a big Grauman’s Chinese Theater Hollywood premiere this weekend and vampires are no factor. That didn’t stopping legions of teens to line Hollywood Blvd to catch a glimpse of Stewart (and who knows who else) who is starring along with Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Steve Buscemi in Walter Salles‘ stunning On the Road, screening as a Centerpiece Gala at AFI Fest where it is having its U.S. premiere.
In the film version of one of the most celebrated works of 20th Century American literature written by Jack Kerouac, Stewart plays the unconventional free-spirit Marylou, the former wife and still frequent lover of Dean Moriarty, a fast-talking charismatic with an insatiable libido. Dean and best friend Sal (Sam Riley), a young writer whose life is shaken after Dean’s arrival, take to the road. Marylou frequently accompanies Sal and Dean’s travels across the country in adventures fueled by sex, drugs and the pursuit of the “It” – a quest for understanding and personal fulfillment.
Stewart spoke with ML during the Toronto International Film Festival where the film had its North American premiere. She shared thoughts on her character’s “hard love,” how she grew herself being a part of the film and how this was the “biggest experience” she’s felt on a set.
So what was your road to On the Road?
I was 14 or 15 when I first met Walter Salles. I spoke to him when I was 17, I think I may have shot the first Twilight, I’m not sure – possibly I was about to go do it. At first I was talking about playing another part, so it’s…
If there’s a case to be made that turning one’s dark, twisted fantasies into plays and movies is good for the soul, Martin McDonagh is Exhibit A. The platinum-haired Irishman has given the world some breathtakingly black comedy, such as his 2003 play about a child serial killer The Pillowman and, as of Friday, the slightly lighter Seven Psychopaths. But if he’s nursing a tortured soul, there was very little evidence of it when I interviewed him at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
McDonagh, who looks like a character actor from a Bond film, laughs easily when he talks, often at his own wit. He’s also cheekily confident about his writing, which he should be. His 2008 directorial debut, the hitman buddy flick In Bruges was cinematic poetry, and his bloody but surprisingly deep follow up, Seven Psychopaths, easily propels him into Tarantino territory. I smell a Bond film in his future.
There’s been plenty written about the plot of the movie, so I’ll get right to the interview in which McDonagh talked about the unwritten film-industry rule that it’s okay to kill women but not pets in movies, his plans to take a break from psychopaths in the near future and why the next project we see from him will likely be another play.
Movieline: What a cast you have. Were they hard to line up?
McDonagh: No, strangely I knew four of the boys from before. Obviously, I know Colin [Farrell], and Sam [Rockwell] and Chris [Walken] and I did a play two, three years ago in New York, A Behanding in Spokane. Actually, I knew Sam for about five years before we did that. Woody, strangely, I’ve known for about nine or 10 years because he’s a big theater fan. We…
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Also in Wednesday evening’s round-up of news briefs, Toronto winner Silver Linings Playbook makes its U.S. move. Christopher Lloyd, Robert Vaughn, and Jerry Stiller set for a fete. And Focus Features unveils its winners for an African film program.
Friar’s Club to Fete Christopher Lloyd, Robert Vaughn, and Jerry Stiller
Christopher Lloyd, Robert Vaughn, and Jerry Stiller will be honored with the “Best Ensemble Cast of Yesterday and Today” award for their new film, Excuse Me for Living October 9th. The comedy written and directed by Wayne Knight, centers on a “charming, suicidal druggie must obey his rehab-clinic’s demand to lead a seniors men’s group or face incarceration and lose the love of his psychiatrist’s daughter.”
Silver Linings Playbook to Open Film Independent Forum
The film by David O Russell, which won the People’s Choice Award at last month’s Toronto International Film Festival, will open Film Independent’s Forum, taking place October 19 – 21. The event helps indie filmmakers bring their projects to the screen.
Focus Features Names Winners of its Africa First Program
For a fifth consecutive year, five filmmakers have been selected for Focus Features’ Africa First Program. The worldwide film company’s initiative earmarked exclusively for emerging filmmakers of African nationality and residence, will award the filmmakers $10,000 apiece. The winning filmmakers for 2012 are Mr. Vincent Moloi (from South Africa); Mr. Jeremiah Mosese (from Lesotho); Ms. Ekwa Msangi-Omari (from Tanzania); Ms. Samantha Nell (from South Africa); and Mr. William Nicholson (from South Africa).
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