Winter 2009 Morristown
Winter 2009 Morristown
2/11 - SUNSHINE CLEANING
A single mom and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy Sunshine Cleaning. Directed by Christine Jeffs (Rain, Sylvia), this uplifting film about an average family that finds the path to its dreams in an unlikely setting screened in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams) now finds herself a thirty something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah, (Golden Globe® winner Emily Blunt), is still living at home with their dad Joe (Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin), a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes.
Director: Christine Jeffs
Screenwriter: Megan Holley
Cast:
Amy Adams,
Emily Blunt,
Alan Arkin,
Steve Zahn,
Mary Lynn Rajskub,
Clifton Collins Jr.
Jason Spevack
Host: Peter TraversGuest: PRODUCER PETER SARAF
Studio: Overture Films
Morristown movies: Toxic love and the secret societies of Yale
by George!
Thursday February 05, 2009, 11:07 AM
CREDIT: SUSSAN CORDERO
CREDIT: SUSSAN CORDEROGlenn Kenny (of the late PREMIERE Magazine ) chats with Director Alan Hruska (NOLA, THE WARRIOR CLASS) and Producer Petina J. Cole about their new film REUNION.
2/4 - REUNION
The film concerns a group of smart and successful people, all members of a Yale secret society, who meet years after graduation to explore – and rationalize – who they have become. As old wounds open and their dead friend’s secret is revealed, they learn the reality of the past and the reason love and happiness have eluded them.Cast:
Christopher McDonald
Zoe McLellan
Alice Evans
Cynthia Stevenson
Brett Cullen
Jamey Sheridan
Jessica Hecht
Josh Pais
Amy Pietz
David ThorntonGUESTS - Director - Alan Hruska & Producer Petina Cole
Alan Hruska, the writer-director of two independent films, Nola (Tribeca Film Festival, 2003) and The Warrior Class (Hamptons Film Festival 2005) was also the director of the recent off-Broadway production of Waiting for Godot, author of the novel, Borrowed Time (Dial Press, 1986), co-founder and chairman of the book publishing company, Soho Press, and a member of the Actors Studio, Playwrights and Directors Unit.
LinkHOST - Glenny Kenny - Senior Critic of the late PREMIERE MAGAZINE - National Society of Film Critics - Blog: Some Came Running On Cinema and other quixotic pursuits, Blog
2nd Feature
TWO LOVERS
Two Lovers is a 2009 American drama film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Vinessa Shaw. It is directed by James Gray and set in Brighton Beach in New York. It premiered in competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in May. This film is Gray's third to enter the competition at this festival. It will have a limited theatrical release on February 13, 2009.
Cast:
Joaquin Phoenix
Gwyneth Paltrow
Vinessa Shaw
Isabella Rossellini
Moni Moshonov
Elias Koteas
Jay O. Sanders
Official site: link
Critic Marshall Fine and Campbell Scott (RODGER DODGER, Director - OFF THE MAP) discuss PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND
Photo by: Sussan Cordero
Photo by: Sussan Cordero
1-28 - PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND
"Phoebe in Wonderland" is the fantastical tale of Phoebe (Elle Fanning), a young girl who longs to be in the school production of Alice in Wonderland. After her peculiar drama teacher Miss Dodger (Patricia Clarkson) casts her, Phoebe struggles to control her behavior so her Principal (Campbell Scott) won't kick her out. As Phoebe's stress mounts, her behavior grows worse, creating intense pressure on her parents Hillary and Peter (Felicity Huffman and Bill Pullman). Hillary, who already feels a failure in both her personal and professional life, desperately tries to understand and help her daughter. But this connection proves elusive as Phoebe begins retreating to an imaginary fantasy world peopled by characters from Alice in Wonderland, a world which grows increasingly disturbing and treacherous. As Alice observes to the Caterpillar, "It is very confusing being so many different sizes in a day," and in the end both Hillary and Phoebe (under Miss Dodger's tutelage) must try to navigate the strange, painful, exhilarating transformation from chrysalis to butterfly.
Director: Daniel Barnz
Screenwriter: Daniel Barnz
Cast:
Elle Fanning,
Felicity Huffman,
Patricia Clarkson,
Campbell Scott,
Bill Pullman
Guest: CAMPBEL SCOTT
CAMPBEL SCOTT
Host: PETER TRAVERS2nd Feature:
Chop Shop
Full of naturalistic performances and exquisite handheld photography, CHOP SHOP shows a side of New York that is rarely seen in films about the Big Apple. Its characters, mostly immigrants, inhabit a landscape of rubbish-strewn alleys, deafening expressways, and rusted steel. Manhattan's skyscrapers and the stands of Shea Stadium loom forever on the horizon. Though some may find the film's unsparing depiction of poverty difficult to watch, the film is never hopeless, and the humanity of its characters always shines through. Altogether, it achieves an air of documentary-like authenticity that convinces the viewer that, long after the screen goes black, the lives of its characters will continue.
Cast:
Alejandro Polanco,
Isamar Gonzales,
Rob Sowulski,
Carlos Zapata
Produced by:
Peter Saraf,
Jeb Brody,
Lisa Muskat
Star Ledger & NYFC's Circle Chairman Steven Whitty & Israeli Producer Adi Ezroni Disusse Being Help Captive By The Cambodian Government While Shooting HOLLY.
Available on DVD 1/27.
Winter Series Opener:
01/21 - HOLLY
Set in Cambodia, depicts child prostitution through the non-sexual, complex relationship between Holly, a beautiful 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, and Patrick, an obsessive 40-year-old American stolen artifacts dealer.
Cast:
Ron Livingston,
Virginie Ledoyen,
Udo Kier,
Christopher Penn,
Thuy Nguyen
Director: Guy Moshe
Produced by: Amit Kort, Adi Ezroni, Guy Jacobson
Guest:
Producer Adi Ezroni
Adi EzroniOfficial Site: Link
