Chicago – The irony of Dallas Richard Hallam and Patrick Horvath’s immensely unsettling little shocker, “Entrance,” is that it has caused many viewers to exit before the end credits have rolled. A surprising number of critics have complained that the film betrays its audience by setting up a low-key indie drama and then turning the tables in the final act. Clearly, these people weren’t paying attention.
The entire film is constructed like a mounting nightmare, as it follows a troubled everywoman, Suzy (Suziey Block), through her banal daily routine in La. The editing is so fragmented that the days start to blur into one another. We see her get ready for work, chat with her genial roommate Karen (Karen Gorham) and have passionless sex with a loser who attempts to sheepishly sneak out the next morning. It all seems rather mundane, but it gradually becomes apparent that something is rather…...
The entire film is constructed like a mounting nightmare, as it follows a troubled everywoman, Suzy (Suziey Block), through her banal daily routine in La. The editing is so fragmented that the days start to blur into one another. We see her get ready for work, chat with her genial roommate Karen (Karen Gorham) and have passionless sex with a loser who attempts to sheepishly sneak out the next morning. It all seems rather mundane, but it gradually becomes apparent that something is rather…...
- 9/20/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Title: Entrance Directors: Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath Starring: Suziey Block, Karen Gorham, Karen Baird, Joshua Grote, Florence Hartigan, Bennett Jones Co-directed by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath, “Entrance” is a deliberately paced indie offering that bills itself as a psychological thriller but in actuality is a fairly aimless tone piece about twentysomething emotional dislocation that only in its final reel leaps somewhat clumsily into genre-oriented skirmish and combat. As a showcase for narrative restraint and a non-forced lead performance by newcomer Suziey Block, the movie works on a theoretical level, but its grip is a bit too slack and its payoff too pointless to really recommend it. The story [ Read More ]...
- 5/21/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
If you live in or around the Los Angeles area and are available to attend a special screening of Entrance following by a Q&A with the directors this Friday night, May 18th, then act quickly to win a pair of tickets on us!
IFC Midnight is releasing Entrance in limited theaters and nationwide on cable VOD and via digital outlets on May 18th, and in honor of the occasion we have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky reader to the following event:
Entrance screening at the Downtown Independent (251 South Main Street, Los Angeles) followed by a Q&A with directors Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath moderated by Ti West (director of The Innkeepers, House of the Devil)
To enter for your chance to win, just send us an E-mail Here including your Full Name And Mailing Address. The winner will be notified Thursday evening, and...
IFC Midnight is releasing Entrance in limited theaters and nationwide on cable VOD and via digital outlets on May 18th, and in honor of the occasion we have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky reader to the following event:
Entrance screening at the Downtown Independent (251 South Main Street, Los Angeles) followed by a Q&A with directors Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath moderated by Ti West (director of The Innkeepers, House of the Devil)
To enter for your chance to win, just send us an E-mail Here including your Full Name And Mailing Address. The winner will be notified Thursday evening, and...
- 5/15/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
IFC Midnight is bringing Dallas Richard Hallam and Patrick Horvath's psychological thriller Entrance to VOD on May 18th. A limited theatrical release is intended for that day as well.
We were first introduced to the film during the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. Definitely a slow burn, but an interesting pay-off.
When Suziey, a beautiful Silverlake hipster, mysteriously loses her beloved dog, a creeping anxiety begins to set in and she decides she's had enough of L.A.. But on the night of her going-away party, Suziey finds out that leaving might not be so easy.
Suziey Block, Bennett Jones, Florence Hartigan, Josh Grote, Liesel Kopp, Morgan Phalen, Jonathan Margolis, Tim Wilson, Karen Gorham, Karen Baird, Farley Burge, Patrick McPheron and Peter Wulff star.
Read more...
We were first introduced to the film during the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. Definitely a slow burn, but an interesting pay-off.
When Suziey, a beautiful Silverlake hipster, mysteriously loses her beloved dog, a creeping anxiety begins to set in and she decides she's had enough of L.A.. But on the night of her going-away party, Suziey finds out that leaving might not be so easy.
Suziey Block, Bennett Jones, Florence Hartigan, Josh Grote, Liesel Kopp, Morgan Phalen, Jonathan Margolis, Tim Wilson, Karen Gorham, Karen Baird, Farley Burge, Patrick McPheron and Peter Wulff star.
Read more...
- 4/26/2012
- shocktillyoudrop.com
IFC Midnight is releasing Entrance in limited theaters and nationwide on cable VOD and via digital outlets on May 18th, and in honor of the occasion, we finally have a trailer for the character-study-meets-horror-flick to share.
Synopsis:
Entrance (review here) is a riveting new psychological thriller directed by newcomers Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath, exploring the thin line between anxiety and naked horror in the life of Suzy (Suziey Block), a young woman in Los Angeles who can’t get comfortable in her own skin. A loner who wallows in nostalgia and finds herself wandering aimlessly through life in the city, she can’t shake the gnawing suspicion that a true menace grows just outside her field of vision. As she scrambles to take control of her life, her anxiety rises to a fever pitch that boils over into a waking nightmare.
An official selection of the Los Angeles Film Festival,...
Synopsis:
Entrance (review here) is a riveting new psychological thriller directed by newcomers Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath, exploring the thin line between anxiety and naked horror in the life of Suzy (Suziey Block), a young woman in Los Angeles who can’t get comfortable in her own skin. A loner who wallows in nostalgia and finds herself wandering aimlessly through life in the city, she can’t shake the gnawing suspicion that a true menace grows just outside her field of vision. As she scrambles to take control of her life, her anxiety rises to a fever pitch that boils over into a waking nightmare.
An official selection of the Los Angeles Film Festival,...
- 4/26/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Directed by Dallas Richard Hallam, Patrick Horvath
Starring Suziey Block, Karen Gorham, Joshua Grote, Florence Hartigan, Bennett Jones, Liesel Kopp, Jonathan Margolis, Morgan Phalen
This is one of those Camus-like experiments in existentialism and boredom. Isn't it?
Entrance (Ehn-trance or Ehn-trance, I'm not sure) gleefully boasts in its official synopsis that Suziey the Silverlake barista, the main character of the film, is actually played by Suziey the Silverlake barista, "and the rambling hillside home she inhabits onscreen was director Dallas Hallam’s rental during shooting." For those of you not from Los Angeles, let me explain Silverlake to you: It is a neighborhood in Los Angeles that is full of people Not from Los Angeles - mostly hipsters, actors, and aspiring film industry types who have more money than the Latino population they ousted during the gentrification process of the neighborhood. In short, Silverlake is expensive and ugly, with creeping...
Starring Suziey Block, Karen Gorham, Joshua Grote, Florence Hartigan, Bennett Jones, Liesel Kopp, Jonathan Margolis, Morgan Phalen
This is one of those Camus-like experiments in existentialism and boredom. Isn't it?
Entrance (Ehn-trance or Ehn-trance, I'm not sure) gleefully boasts in its official synopsis that Suziey the Silverlake barista, the main character of the film, is actually played by Suziey the Silverlake barista, "and the rambling hillside home she inhabits onscreen was director Dallas Hallam’s rental during shooting." For those of you not from Los Angeles, let me explain Silverlake to you: It is a neighborhood in Los Angeles that is full of people Not from Los Angeles - mostly hipsters, actors, and aspiring film industry types who have more money than the Latino population they ousted during the gentrification process of the neighborhood. In short, Silverlake is expensive and ugly, with creeping...
- 7/5/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
TORONTO -- Canada's producers association Tuesday asked an Ontario judge to prevent striking Canadian actors from working on film and TV sets under ACTRA-approved continuation letters.
The Canadian Film and Television Production Assn. asked the Ontario Superior Court for a restraining order against the use of "unlawful" continuation letters that spare producer signatories picketing or other on-set disruption in return for a 7% wage increase on struck film and TV sets. The letters have essentially produced a strike without work stoppages.
John Rook, a lawyer with Bennett Jones acting on behalf of the CFTPA, faced an uphill struggle Thursday in persuading Justice Sarah Pepall that injunctive relief was required from a business-as-usual strike.
"We acknowledge there is no strike at all, because ACTRA has secured the upper hand by declaring a strike, but by virtue of the continuation letters, everyone continues to work," he argued.
But Rook said the court should order an end to the use of continuation letters because ACTRA, which represents 21,000 striking actors, was not following agreed negotiating and dispute resolution protocols outlined in the Independent Production Agreement, the actors' collective agreement.
The Canadian Film and Television Production Assn. asked the Ontario Superior Court for a restraining order against the use of "unlawful" continuation letters that spare producer signatories picketing or other on-set disruption in return for a 7% wage increase on struck film and TV sets. The letters have essentially produced a strike without work stoppages.
John Rook, a lawyer with Bennett Jones acting on behalf of the CFTPA, faced an uphill struggle Thursday in persuading Justice Sarah Pepall that injunctive relief was required from a business-as-usual strike.
"We acknowledge there is no strike at all, because ACTRA has secured the upper hand by declaring a strike, but by virtue of the continuation letters, everyone continues to work," he argued.
But Rook said the court should order an end to the use of continuation letters because ACTRA, which represents 21,000 striking actors, was not following agreed negotiating and dispute resolution protocols outlined in the Independent Production Agreement, the actors' collective agreement.
- 1/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Canada's producers association Tuesday asked an Ontario judge to prevent striking Canadian actors from working on film and TV sets under ACTRA-approved continuation letters.
The Canadian Film and Television Production Assn. asked the Ontario Superior Court for a restraining order against the use of "unlawful" continuation letters that spare producer signatories picketing or other on-set disruption in return for a 7% wage increase on struck film and TV sets. The letters have essentially produced a strike without work stoppages.
John Rook, a lawyer with Bennett Jones acting on behalf of the CFTPA, faced an uphill struggle Thursday in persuading Justice Sarah Pepall that injunctive relief was required from a business-as-usual strike.
"We acknowledge there is no strike at all, because ACTRA has secured the upper hand by declaring a strike, but by virtue of the continuation letters, everyone continues to work," he argued.
But Rook said the court should order an end to the use of continuation letters because ACTRA, which represents 21,000 striking actors, was not following agreed negotiating and dispute resolution protocols outlined in the Independent Production Agreement, the actors' collective agreement.
The Canadian Film and Television Production Assn. asked the Ontario Superior Court for a restraining order against the use of "unlawful" continuation letters that spare producer signatories picketing or other on-set disruption in return for a 7% wage increase on struck film and TV sets. The letters have essentially produced a strike without work stoppages.
John Rook, a lawyer with Bennett Jones acting on behalf of the CFTPA, faced an uphill struggle Thursday in persuading Justice Sarah Pepall that injunctive relief was required from a business-as-usual strike.
"We acknowledge there is no strike at all, because ACTRA has secured the upper hand by declaring a strike, but by virtue of the continuation letters, everyone continues to work," he argued.
But Rook said the court should order an end to the use of continuation letters because ACTRA, which represents 21,000 striking actors, was not following agreed negotiating and dispute resolution protocols outlined in the Independent Production Agreement, the actors' collective agreement.
- 1/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Canadian broadcaster Alliance Atlantis Communications, co-producer of the "CSI" franchise, put itself on the auction block Wednesday.
Toronto-based Alliance Atlantis made official what has long been known in industry circles: The company's controlling shareholders, executive chairman Michael MacMillan and longtime partner Seaton McLean are shopping their controlling 67% voting interest in the specialty channel broadcaster via their Southhill Strategy Inc. shingle.
In a statement, Alliance Atlantis said that MacMillan and McLean have told the broadcaster that no decision to cash out has been made and that they may still decide not to unload their stake.
"If Southhill decides not to sell its interest, a sale of AACI is unlikely to occur," the company said.
Alliance Atlantis shares climbed CAN$6.50 ($5.70), or 15%, to CAN$48.70 ($42.37) in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange following news of a possible sale.
To complete a potential deal, Alliance Atlantis said it has retained RBC Capital Markets as a financial adviser and Bennett Jones Llp. as its legal adviser. It also has established a special in-house committee -- comprising Robert Steacy, Anthony Griffiths and Barry Reiter -- to explore "strategic alternatives."
Alliance Atlantis' raising of the "for sale" sign follows MacMillan's move to executive chairman last year after being replaced as CEO by Phyllis Yaffe.
Toronto-based Alliance Atlantis made official what has long been known in industry circles: The company's controlling shareholders, executive chairman Michael MacMillan and longtime partner Seaton McLean are shopping their controlling 67% voting interest in the specialty channel broadcaster via their Southhill Strategy Inc. shingle.
In a statement, Alliance Atlantis said that MacMillan and McLean have told the broadcaster that no decision to cash out has been made and that they may still decide not to unload their stake.
"If Southhill decides not to sell its interest, a sale of AACI is unlikely to occur," the company said.
Alliance Atlantis shares climbed CAN$6.50 ($5.70), or 15%, to CAN$48.70 ($42.37) in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange following news of a possible sale.
To complete a potential deal, Alliance Atlantis said it has retained RBC Capital Markets as a financial adviser and Bennett Jones Llp. as its legal adviser. It also has established a special in-house committee -- comprising Robert Steacy, Anthony Griffiths and Barry Reiter -- to explore "strategic alternatives."
Alliance Atlantis' raising of the "for sale" sign follows MacMillan's move to executive chairman last year after being replaced as CEO by Phyllis Yaffe.
- 12/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Tiger Aspect Prods. has poached BBC head of comedy Sophie Clarke-Jervoise to take the role of senior executive beginning Nov. 1, company chairman Peter Bennett Jones said Thursday. In the role, Clarke-Jervoise will be responsible for overseeing Tiger Aspect's comedy activity, managing the department and developing original programming as well as working on a number of series already in development. She will work alongside Geoffrey Perkins, Tiger Aspect's creative director for comedy. During her six-year tenure at the BBC, Clarke-Jervoise developed and executive produced such series as Manchild, Help, My Family and Coupling.
- 8/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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