Be prepared to be shocked when watching Alan Ball’s feature-length directorial debut. The unflinchingly dark creator of HBO’s Six Feet Under, True Blood, and writer of the Oscar-winning film American Beauty, Ball went straight for the jugular with Towelhead, hoping to mix things up a little bit. And that, he certainly does.
Towelhead is based [...]
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Towelhead
September 22nd, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Aaron Eckhart · Alan Ball · Summer Bishil · Toni Collette · Towelhead
True Blood
September 7th, 2008 2 Comments
Anytime Alan Ball puts something out, I’ll be the first one to eat it up. He wrote the script for the psycho-sexual drama American Beauty, he created and directed several episodes of the brilliant HBO series Six Feet Under, and he wrote/directed the upcoming Aaron Eckhart movie Towelhead (which was amazing as well, go see [...]
Tags: Alan Ball · Anna Paquin · Charlaine Harris · HBO · Stephen Moyer · True Blood
Atonement
January 18th, 2008 2 Comments
Joe Wright cemented his place as a new, seriously talented director with his latest film, Atonement. Having already made some noise with his first film (the generally well received adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (2005)) Wright continues to bring history to the screen. Atonement was a greater challenge, requiring vast amounts of skill to do [...]
Tags: Atonement · Christopher Hampton · Dario Marianelli · Ian McEwan · James McAvoy · Joe Wright · Kiera Knightly · Saoirse Ronan
Countdown to Sundance
January 15th, 2008 2 Comments
There’s only three days until Sundance 2008 officially opens it’s doors. Well, 4 days for us schmucks who couldn’t cough up the $4,000 for carte blanc packages that would actually allow the attendance of opening day events. But who cares! It’s time to Sundance.
The previous few years have consistently delivered completely satisfying experiences that left [...]
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