Chicago – The actor Andy Garcia has been known throughout the years as a tough-guy leading man, with memorable roles in “The Godfather: Part III” and the “Ocean’s Eleven” series. He latest role is a gentle and comic turn, as a father doing a college tour with his son, and discovering more than expected in “At Middleton.”
Andy Garcia has experienced a brilliant American Dream story. He was born in Cuba, came to America as a child, where his father developed a successful perfume company. He was an athlete in high school, and turned to acting in his senior year. After graduating college, he moved to Los Angeles and began to move up the ladder. After doing “The Godfather: Part III,” Garcia continued with leading man roles in “Internal Affairs,” “Hero” and “When a Man Loves a Woman.” He is taking on more character parts at this point in his career,...
Andy Garcia has experienced a brilliant American Dream story. He was born in Cuba, came to America as a child, where his father developed a successful perfume company. He was an athlete in high school, and turned to acting in his senior year. After graduating college, he moved to Los Angeles and began to move up the ladder. After doing “The Godfather: Part III,” Garcia continued with leading man roles in “Internal Affairs,” “Hero” and “When a Man Loves a Woman.” He is taking on more character parts at this point in his career,...
- 1/29/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Catch three new clips form Adam Rogers At Middleton starring Andy Garcia, Vera Farmiga, Taissa Farmiga, Spencer Lofranco, Nicholas Braun, Tom Skettitt, Peter Riegert and Mirjana Jokovic. Anchor Bay distributes the film which opens on January 31st, 2014 and is written by Glenn German and Rogers. Garcia also produces alongside German and Sig Libowitz. It’s not only teenagers who find themselves when they go off to college. Two brilliant actors best known for dramatic roles join forces in a romantic romp, and they have a ball. Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia play strangers who meet while escorting their teen children to campus-tour day at a mythical college named Middleton (the film is in part a hilarious parody of American college life).
- 1/27/2014
- Upcoming-Movies.com
One has come to expect it, but "The Powder Keg" is another harsh, disturbing descent into the chaos of the former Yugoslavia, where the population in general and most individuals are primed to explode into hatred and hostility.
A Paramount Classics release and winner at the 1998 European Film Awards, "Powder" has been on the festival circuit since its premiere last year at Venice (where it won the international critics prize), with a recent unspooling at the Freedom Film Festival in Santa Monica. It's screening in competition today at Santa Barbara and is scheduled to open commercially this year.
Set in 1995 in Belgrade during a one night, "Powder" (subtitled in English) is blackly humorous and heavy on violence, based on a play by Macedonian playwright Dejan Dukovski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic ("Someone Else's America").
Somewhat reminiscent of John Sayles' "City of Hope" and modeled after "La Ronde" with a great ensemble cast playing loosely connected characters, the film has a sobering agenda that will leave few viewers unfazed and definitely won't help the local tourist industry.
Michael (Miki Manojlovic) is a hopeless romantic who's been out of the country and returns to find his best friend in a hospital, his legs blown off in the fighting. Saddened but fatalistic about the madness he encounters in his further wanderings, Michael's is at first the most hopeful story, including a welcome moment of Fellini-esque whimsy when he spends a small fortune to impress the woman he deserted (Mirjana Karanovic), but then his fate too is unexpectedly grim.
Indeed, from a car crash that starts a bloody chain of events to an attempted rape on a train that results in two people blown to bits by a hand grenade to a horrible hostage scene on a bus -- which one woman (Mirjana Jokovic) survives only to be terrorized later with her boyfriend by gangsters -- there's not much relief from Paskaljevic and Dukovski's bleak view of humanity.
THE POWDER KEG (BURE BARUTA)
Paramount Classics
MACT, Ticket Prods., Stefi S.A. Gradski Kina,
Mine Film, Vans
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Producers: Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Goran Paskaljevic
Screenwriters: Dejan Dukovski, Goran Paskaljevic, Filip David, Zoran Andric
Director of photography: Milan Spasic
Production designer: Milenko Jeremic
Editor: Petar Putnikovic
Costume designers: Zora Mojsilovic Popovic, Suna Ciftci
Music: Zoran Simjanovic
Color/stereo
Cast:
Michael: Miki Manojlovic
Natalia: Mirjana Karanovic
The Boxer: Lazar Ristovski
Ana: Mirjana Jokovic
The Young Man: Sergej Trifunovic
Boris: Nikolva Ristanovski
Kosta: Dragan Jovanovic
Running time -- 102 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
A Paramount Classics release and winner at the 1998 European Film Awards, "Powder" has been on the festival circuit since its premiere last year at Venice (where it won the international critics prize), with a recent unspooling at the Freedom Film Festival in Santa Monica. It's screening in competition today at Santa Barbara and is scheduled to open commercially this year.
Set in 1995 in Belgrade during a one night, "Powder" (subtitled in English) is blackly humorous and heavy on violence, based on a play by Macedonian playwright Dejan Dukovski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic ("Someone Else's America").
Somewhat reminiscent of John Sayles' "City of Hope" and modeled after "La Ronde" with a great ensemble cast playing loosely connected characters, the film has a sobering agenda that will leave few viewers unfazed and definitely won't help the local tourist industry.
Michael (Miki Manojlovic) is a hopeless romantic who's been out of the country and returns to find his best friend in a hospital, his legs blown off in the fighting. Saddened but fatalistic about the madness he encounters in his further wanderings, Michael's is at first the most hopeful story, including a welcome moment of Fellini-esque whimsy when he spends a small fortune to impress the woman he deserted (Mirjana Karanovic), but then his fate too is unexpectedly grim.
Indeed, from a car crash that starts a bloody chain of events to an attempted rape on a train that results in two people blown to bits by a hand grenade to a horrible hostage scene on a bus -- which one woman (Mirjana Jokovic) survives only to be terrorized later with her boyfriend by gangsters -- there's not much relief from Paskaljevic and Dukovski's bleak view of humanity.
THE POWDER KEG (BURE BARUTA)
Paramount Classics
MACT, Ticket Prods., Stefi S.A. Gradski Kina,
Mine Film, Vans
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Producers: Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Goran Paskaljevic
Screenwriters: Dejan Dukovski, Goran Paskaljevic, Filip David, Zoran Andric
Director of photography: Milan Spasic
Production designer: Milenko Jeremic
Editor: Petar Putnikovic
Costume designers: Zora Mojsilovic Popovic, Suna Ciftci
Music: Zoran Simjanovic
Color/stereo
Cast:
Michael: Miki Manojlovic
Natalia: Mirjana Karanovic
The Boxer: Lazar Ristovski
Ana: Mirjana Jokovic
The Young Man: Sergej Trifunovic
Boris: Nikolva Ristanovski
Kosta: Dragan Jovanovic
Running time -- 102 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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