In its first year following the conclusion of its contract with AFI, the 2010 Dallas International Film Festival will take over all eight screens of the Angelika Film Center for an Opening Night Celebration. 1,600 film goers will participate in the festivities and see featured films including Bill Cunningham New York, Multiple Sarcasms, Nosotros los Pobres and Skateland. In addition, the Super Saturday lineup of films will be packed with four world premieres: Hold, Sin Ella, Virsa and We Are the Sea. This year, the Dallas Star Award – presented annually to film artists in recognition of their unique contributions to cinema – will be given to writer-director Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams), writer-director John Lee Hancock (The Rookie, The Blind Side), three time Academy Award nominated cinematographer Wally Pfister (Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight) and Mexican film Icon Pedro Infante (Nosotros los Pobres, Ustedes los Ricos, Pepe el Toro). Academy Award winning...
- 4/8/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Director: Tim McCanlies Writer(s): Watt Key (novel, screenplay) Starring: Jimmy Bennett, Gabriel Basso, Uriah Shelton, Clint Howard Moon (Jimmy Bennett) and his Pap (J.D. Evermore) are living the Libertarian dream – Ayn Rand and Ron Paul would be proud of this duo – illegally homesteading in the backcountry of rural Alabama. Pap raises Moon to never trust anyone, especially the government. That’s all well and good until Pap dies, leaving eleven year old Moon all alone in the wilderness. Moon opts to foot it towards Alaska (the Libertarian, survivalist and secessionist Mecca). It is not long before the local constable (Clint Howard) – who must have learned everything he knows about policing from Roscoe P. Coltrane – and his hound dog are hot on Moon’s trail. Moon is apprehended and sent to a boy’s prison called Pinson, but his inner wild child cannot be held by any cage. Moon...
- 11/16/2009
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Austin filmmaker Tim McCanlies (Secondhand Lions, The Iron Giant) premiered his latest family-friendly film Alabama Moon during Austin Film Festival at the Paramount. Based on the coming-of-age novel by Watt Key, this film's plot tugs at the heartstrings, reminiscent of the Disney film Old Yeller and other family classics.
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, 11-year-old Moon (Jimmy Bennett ), who was raised in the Alabama wilderness, must learn how to make his way in the modern world. Doing so isn't very easy, with a local law officer (Clint Howard) intent on making sure that Jimmy stays a ward of the state in a reform school. There Moon meets and interacts with other boys, including the bully Hal (Gabriel Basso) and sickly Kit (Uriah Shelton) who become his friends and cohorts on an escape.
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After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, 11-year-old Moon (Jimmy Bennett ), who was raised in the Alabama wilderness, must learn how to make his way in the modern world. Doing so isn't very easy, with a local law officer (Clint Howard) intent on making sure that Jimmy stays a ward of the state in a reform school. There Moon meets and interacts with other boys, including the bully Hal (Gabriel Basso) and sickly Kit (Uriah Shelton) who become his friends and cohorts on an escape.
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- 11/16/2009
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Tim McCanlies once told me, "I find your average beauty-parlor-operator in Texas to be far more interesting a person than your average studio executive in Hollywood." He's putting that theory to the test by working outside the studio system for his third directorial effort, "The 2 Bobs," a manic comedy that premiered at SXSW to an enthusiastic local crowd and was made for a budget that likely wouldn't have paid for craft services on his last film, the Michael Caine-Robert Duvall family flick "Secondhand Lions."
After a career spent working in Hollywood from his home in Bastrop County penning such films as "The Iron Giant" and quietly creating The CW's long-running "Smallville," the Texan is doing an indie two-step -- first with "Bobs," an Austin-set send-up of the video game industry about two game designers named Bob and their struggle to recover their most recent creation after it's...
After a career spent working in Hollywood from his home in Bastrop County penning such films as "The Iron Giant" and quietly creating The CW's long-running "Smallville," the Texan is doing an indie two-step -- first with "Bobs," an Austin-set send-up of the video game industry about two game designers named Bob and their struggle to recover their most recent creation after it's...
- 3/25/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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