Spring is a season of renewal, particularly in the movie business, where the completion of the awards derby allows Amy Adams to segue from playing a solemn nun in "Doubt" to a klutzy crime scene cleaner in "Sunshine Cleaning." Along with "Sunshine," there are plenty of festival favorites about to get their day in the sun, whether that's in theaters, on DVD or on demand online or on TV. This preview recognizes the many ways to get your indie film fix, as well as the special events you might want to head out to if you live in New York or Los Angeles, including "The Brothers Bloom" director Rian Johnson's week-long con man movie "Festival of Fakery" at L.A.'s famed New Beverly Cinema, about which we recently spoke to the director. But regardless of whether we're watching films from the past or present, we're looking forward to the next couple months.
- 2/18/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
See the trailer for "Crossing Over," produced by C.O. Films, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Road Rebel as well as distributors The Weinstein Company. No confirmed release date on this one as yet. South African born Wayne Kramer helms and writes the film. Kramer is a highly talented director and writer of films such as "Crossing Over," "The Cooler" and "Running Scared." We loved all of those except for the "Mindhunters" effort which was lacklustre for the most part. In any case, the multi-talented cast alone makes this worthy of a visit. Check out the trailer here! Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that...
- 11/17/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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